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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-04-01 02:23:31 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 19:59:15 +0400 |
| commit | 327c0e968645f2601a43f5ea7c19c7b3a5fa0a34 (patch) | |
| tree | acc6789c120a6d5000ceebf51e690d14c6cfcacb /include/linux/swap.h | |
| parent | 2678958e1225f350806d90f211a3b475f64aee80 (diff) | |
| download | linux-327c0e968645f2601a43f5ea7c19c7b3a5fa0a34.tar.xz | |
vmscan: fix it to take care of nodemask
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to
alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to
be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to
unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the
worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where
it is needed.
This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to
try_to_free_pages().
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/swap.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index d30215578877..b8b0c4ce83e6 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static inline void lru_cache_add_active_file(struct page *page) /* linux/mm/vmscan.c */ extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order, - gfp_t gfp_mask); + gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask); extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap, unsigned int swappiness); |