On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Change ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK page allocation such that the reserves are system
> wide - which they are per setup_per_zone_pages_min(), when we scrape the
> barrel, do it properly.
>
IIRC it's actually not too uncommon to have allocations coming here via
page reclaim. It's not exactly clear that you want to break mempolicies
at this point.
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1638,6 +1638,12 @@ restart:
> rebalance:
> if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
> nofail_alloc:
> + /*
> + * break out of mempolicy boundaries
> + */
> + zonelist = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists +
> + gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
> +
> /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
> page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
> ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
>
> --
>
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