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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2012-11-29 13:54:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-11-30 08:51:17 -0800
commita50915394f1fc02c2861d3b7ce7014788aa5066e (patch)
tree4b94679a29fb97db6b5163a4c1345d62dfa6a1e7 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent60cefed485a02bd99b6299dad70666fe49245da7 (diff)
downloadlinux-a50915394f1fc02c2861d3b7ce7014788aa5066e.tar.bz2
revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""
It apepars that this patch was innocent, and we hope that "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended" will fix the final kswapd-spinning cause. Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7e208f0ad68c..8193809f3de0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2416,9 +2416,8 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
goto nopage;
restart:
- if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
- wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
- zone_idx(preferred_zone));
+ wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
+ zone_idx(preferred_zone));
/*
* OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
@@ -2495,7 +2494,7 @@ rebalance:
* system then fail the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim.
*/
if ((deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) &&
- (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
+ (gfp_mask & (__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_REPEAT)) == __GFP_MOVABLE)
goto nopage;
/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */