kswapd is woken when zones are below the low watermark but the wakeup decision is not taking the classzone into account. Now that reclaim is node-based, it is only required to wake kswapd once per node and only if all zones are unbalanced for the requested classzone.
Note that one node might be checked multiple times but there is no cheap way of tracking what nodes have already been visited for zoneslists that be ordered by either zone or node. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> --- mm/vmscan.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 7a2d69612231..b9cff9047ac0 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3389,6 +3389,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx) { pg_data_t *pgdat; + int z; if (!populated_zone(zone)) return; @@ -3402,8 +3403,16 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx) pgdat->kswapd_order = max(pgdat->kswapd_order, order); if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait)) return; - if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0)) - return; + + /* Only wake kswapd if all zones are unbalanced */ + for (z = 0; z <= classzone_idx; z++) { + zone = pgdat->node_zones + z; + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + + if (zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx)) + return; + } trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order); wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait); -- 2.6.4