[Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv23 12/16] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilise watermarks

Sandeep Patil psandeep.s at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 16:25:13 EST 2012


> +static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
> +{
> +       /*
> +        * Increase level of watermarks to force kswapd do his job
> +        * to stabilise at new watermark level.
> +        */
> +       __update_cma_watermarks(zone, count);
> +
> +       /* Obey watermarks as if the page was being allocated */
> +       watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + count;
> +       while (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0)) {

Wouldn't this reclaim (2 * count pages) above low wmark?

You are updating the low wmark first and then adding "count"
for the zone_watermark_ok() check as well ..

Sandeep



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