>
> The ac_classzone_idx is used as the basis for waking kswapd and that is based
> on the preferred zoneref. If the preferred zoneref's highest zone is lower
> than what is available on other nodes, it's possible that kswapd is woken
> on a zone with only higher, but still eligible, zones. As classzone_idx
> is strictly adhered to now, it causes a problem because eligible pages
> are skipped.
>
> For example, node 0 has only DMA32 and node 1 has only NORMAL. An allocating
> context running on node 0 may wake kswapd on node 1 telling it to skip
> all NORMAL pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
> ---
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf...@alibaba-inc.com>
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 2fe2fbb4f2ad..b10bee2e5968 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3415,7 +3415,7 @@ static void wake_all_kswapds(unsigned int order, const
> struct alloc_context *ac)
> for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist,
> ac->high_zoneidx, ac->nodemask) {
> if (last_pgdat != zone->zone_pgdat)
> - wakeup_kswapd(zone, order, ac_classzone_idx(ac));
> + wakeup_kswapd(zone, order, ac->high_zoneidx);
> last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> }
> }
> --
> 2.6.4
