Three months ago, Christoph wrote:
> If we get under some memory pressure in a cpuset (we only scan zones
> that are in the cpuset for memory) then kswapd is woken
> up for all zones. This patch only wakes up kswapd in zones that are
> part of the current cpuset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.16-rc2/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.16-rc2.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-02-02 22:03:08.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.16-rc2/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-02-08 00:05:09.000000000 -0800
> @@ -923,7 +923,8 @@ restart:
> goto got_pg;
>
> do {
> - wakeup_kswapd(*z, order);
> + if (cpuset_zone_allowed(*z, gfp_mask))
> + wakeup_kswapd(*z, order);
> } while (*(++z));
>
> /*
>
Christoph,
Does this patch serve any use? Chris Wright just noticed (in private
email) that wakeup_kswapd() already contains a check for cpuset
confinement, so it would seem the above added check is superfluous.
Thanks.
--
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Paul Jackson <[email protected]> 1.925.600.0401
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