one more thing...
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:49:55 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
> @@ -1168,6 +1170,11 @@ zonelist_scan:
> !cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask))
> goto try_next_zone;
>
> + if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_PAGECACHE) &&
> + zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) >
> + zone->max_pagecache_pages)
> + goto try_next_zone;
> +
I don't prefer to cause zone fallback by this.
This may use ZONE_DMA before exhausing ZONE_NORMAL (ia64),
ZONE_NORMAL before ZONE_HIGHMEM (x86).
Very rapid page allocation can eats some amount of lower zone.
Regards,
-Kame
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