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author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-07-21 22:00:56 +0000 |
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committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-07-21 22:00:56 +0000 |
commit | 168660f24dfc46c2702acbe4701a446f42a59578 (patch) | |
tree | f431368afbf6b1b71809cf3fd904d800ea126f4d /mm | |
parent | 6420f767924fa73b0ea267864d96820815f4ba5a (diff) |
Merge with Linux 2.4.0-test5-pre3.
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 32 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 29 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 2567aa2df..ae05cf8f8 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static struct page * rmqueue(zone_t *zone, unsigned long order) */ struct page * __alloc_pages(zonelist_t *zonelist, unsigned long order) { - zone_t **zone = zonelist->zones; + zone_t **zone; extern wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait; /* @@ -228,21 +228,6 @@ struct page * __alloc_pages(zonelist_t *zonelist, unsigned long order) * in a higher zone fails. */ - for (;;) { - zone_t *z = *(zone++); - if (!z) - break; - if (!z->size) - BUG(); - - /* If there are zones with a lot of free memory allocate from them */ - if (z->free_pages > z->pages_high) { - struct page *page = rmqueue(z, order); - if (page) - return page; - } - } - zone = zonelist->zones; for (;;) { zone_t *z = *(zone++); @@ -264,6 +249,21 @@ struct page * __alloc_pages(zonelist_t *zonelist, unsigned long order) } } + /* Three possibilities to get here + * - Previous alloc_pages resulted in last zone set to have + * zone_wake_kswapd and start it. kswapd has not been able + * to release enough pages so that one zone does not have + * zone_wake_kswapd set. + * - Different sets of zones (zonelist) + * previous did not have all zones with zone_wake_kswapd but + * this one has... should kswapd be woken up? it will run once. + * - SMP race, kswapd went to sleep slightly after it as running + * in 'if (waitqueue_active(...))' above. + * + anyway the test is very cheap to do... + */ + if (waitqueue_active(&kswapd_wait)) + wake_up_interruptible(&kswapd_wait); + /* * Ok, we don't have any zones that don't need some * balancing.. See if we have any that aren't critical.. diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index c43456da6..cbdd0cb7f 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ static inline int memory_pressure(void) } /* - * Check if there recently has been memory pressure (zone_wake_kswapd) + * Check if all zones have recently had memory_pressure (zone_wake_kswapd) */ static inline int keep_kswapd_awake(void) { @@ -451,13 +451,13 @@ static inline int keep_kswapd_awake(void) for(i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) { zone_t *zone = pgdat->node_zones+ i; if (zone->size && - zone->zone_wake_kswapd) - return 1; + !zone->zone_wake_kswapd) + return 0; } pgdat = pgdat->node_next; } while (pgdat); - return 0; + return 1; } /* @@ -496,9 +496,7 @@ static int do_try_to_free_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask) goto done; } - /* not (been) low on memory - it is - * pointless to try to swap out. - */ + /* check if mission completed */ if (!keep_kswapd_awake()) goto done; @@ -596,10 +594,7 @@ int kswapd(void *unused) for (;;) { if (!keep_kswapd_awake()) { - /* wake up regulary to do an early attempt too free - * pages - pages will not actually be freed. - */ - interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(&kswapd_wait, HZ); + interruptible_sleep_on(&kswapd_wait); } do_try_to_free_pages(GFP_KSWAPD); @@ -631,18 +626,18 @@ int try_to_free_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask) retval = do_try_to_free_pages(gfp_mask); current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; } - else { - /* make sure kswapd runs */ - if (waitqueue_active(&kswapd_wait)) - wake_up_interruptible(&kswapd_wait); - } + + /* someone needed memory that kswapd had not provided + * make sure kswapd runs, should not happen often */ + if (waitqueue_active(&kswapd_wait)) + wake_up_interruptible(&kswapd_wait); return retval; } static int __init kswapd_init(void) { - printk("Starting kswapd v1.6\n"); + printk("Starting kswapd v1.7\n"); swap_setup(); kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND); return 0; |