page allocator: use allocation flags as an index to the zone watermark

ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether
pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when
allocating the pages.  Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine
which watermark to use.

This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is
indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers.  All call sites that
use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values
and the array offsets for setting.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 6fab2dcbb4d3..0ea5adbc5b16 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ These protections are added to score to judge whether this zone should be used
 for page allocation or should be reclaimed.
 
 In this example, if normal pages (index=2) are required to this DMA zone and
-pages_high is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should not be
-used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
+watermark[WMARK_HIGH] is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should
+not be used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
 (4 + 2004 = 2008). If this protection value is 0, this zone would be used for
 normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0]
 (=0) is used.
@@ -280,9 +280,10 @@ The default value is 65536.
 min_free_kbytes:
 
 This is used to force the Linux VM to keep a minimum number
-of kilobytes free.  The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min
-value for each lowmem zone in the system.  Each lowmem zone gets
-a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size.
+of kilobytes free.  The VM uses this number to compute a
+watermark[WMARK_MIN] value for each lowmem zone in the system.
+Each lowmem zone gets a number of reserved free pages based
+proportionally on its size.
 
 Some minimal amount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC
 allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance b/Documentation/vm/balance
index bd3d31bc4915..c46e68cf9344 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/balance
+++ b/Documentation/vm/balance
@@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ Page stealing from process memory and shm is done if stealing the page would
 alleviate memory pressure on any zone in the page's node that has fallen below
 its watermark.
 
-pages_min/pages_low/pages_high/low_on_memory/zone_wake_kswapd: These are 
-per-zone fields, used to determine when a zone needs to be balanced. When
-the number of pages falls below pages_min, the hysteric field low_on_memory
-gets set. This stays set till the number of free pages becomes pages_high.
-When low_on_memory is set, page allocation requests will try to free some
-pages in the zone (providing GFP_WAIT is set in the request). Orthogonal
-to this, is the decision to poke kswapd to free some zone pages. That
-decision is not hysteresis based, and is done when the number of free
-pages is below pages_low; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set.
+watemark[WMARK_MIN/WMARK_LOW/WMARK_HIGH]/low_on_memory/zone_wake_kswapd: These
+are per-zone fields, used to determine when a zone needs to be balanced. When
+the number of pages falls below watermark[WMARK_MIN], the hysteric field
+low_on_memory gets set. This stays set till the number of free pages becomes
+watermark[WMARK_HIGH]. When low_on_memory is set, page allocation requests will
+try to free some pages in the zone (providing GFP_WAIT is set in the request).
+Orthogonal to this, is the decision to poke kswapd to free some zone pages.
+That decision is not hysteresis based, and is done when the number of free
+pages is below watermark[WMARK_LOW]; in which case zone_wake_kswapd is also set.
 
 
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