On 06/09/2016 08:04 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
The fair zone allocation policy interleaves allocation requests between zones to avoid an age inversion problem whereby new pages are reclaimed to balance a zone. Reclaim is now node-based so this should no longer be an issue and the fair zone allocation policy is not free. This patch removes it.
I wonder if fair zone allocation had the side effect of preventing e.g. a small Normal zone to be almost fully occupied by long-lived unreclaimable allocations early in the kernel lifetime. So that might be one thing to watch out for. But otherwise I would agree it should be no longer needed with node-based reclaim.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
