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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 2cb9eb71e28..4f95bcf0f2b 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1735,6 +1735,35 @@ zonelist_scan: if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) && !cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask)) continue; + /* + * When allocating a page cache page for writing, we + * want to get it from a zone that is within its dirty + * limit, such that no single zone holds more than its + * proportional share of globally allowed dirty pages. + * The dirty limits take into account the zone's + * lowmem reserves and high watermark so that kswapd + * should be able to balance it without having to + * write pages from its LRU list. + * + * This may look like it could increase pressure on + * lower zones by failing allocations in higher zones + * before they are full. But the pages that do spill + * over are limited as the lower zones are protected + * by this very same mechanism. It should not become + * a practical burden to them. + * + * XXX: For now, allow allocations to potentially + * exceed the per-zone dirty limit in the slowpath + * (ALLOC_WMARK_LOW unset) before going into reclaim, + * which is important when on a NUMA setup the allowed + * zones are together not big enough to reach the + * global limit. The proper fix for these situations + * will require awareness of zones in the + * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads. + */ + if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && + (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) + goto this_zone_full; BUILD_BUG_ON(ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS < NR_WMARK); if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS)) { |