From 183f6371aac2a5496a8ef2b0b0a68562652c3cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:44:12 -0700 Subject: mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK The reserve is proportionally distributed over all !highmem zones in the system. So we need to allow an emergency allocation access to all zones. In order to do that we need to break out of any mempolicy boundaries we might have. In my opinion that does not break mempolicies as those are user oriented and not system oriented. That is, system allocations are not guaranteed to be within mempolicy boundaries. For instance IRQs do not even have a mempolicy. So breaking out of mempolicy boundaries for 'rare' emergency allocations, which are always system allocations (as opposed to user) is ok. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Miller Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index f9d925451bfd..ef2d1e72fc07 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2378,6 +2378,13 @@ rebalance: /* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */ if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) { + /* + * Ignore mempolicies if ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS on the grounds + * the allocation is high priority and these type of + * allocations are system rather than user orientated + */ + zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask); + page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone, migratetype); -- cgit v1.2.3