Martin Bligh wrote:
This is not tested yet. What do you think?
This patch removes temp_priority, as it is racy. We're setting
prev_priority from it, and yet temp_priority could have been
set back to DEF_PRIORITY by another reclaimer.
I like it. I wonder if we should get kswapd to stick its priority
into the zone at the point where zone_watermark_ok becomes true,
rather than setting all zones to the lowest priority? That would
require a bit more logic though I guess.
For that matter (going off the topic a bit), I wonder if
try_to_free_pages should have a watermark check there too? This
might help reduce the latency issue you brought up where one process
has reclaimed a lot of pages, but another isn't making any progress
and has to go through the full priority range? Maybe that's
statistically pretty unlikely?
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