If a zone cannot be used for a dirty page then it gets marked "full"
which is cached in the zlc and later potentially skipped by allocation
requests that have nothing to do with dirty zones.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f8b80c3..5c559e3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ zonelist_scan:
*/
if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
(gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
- goto this_zone_full;
+ continue;
mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark,
--
1.8.4.5
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