Add auto zone ordering configuration.

This function will select ZONE_ORDER_NODE when

There are only ZONE_DMA or ZONE_DMA32.
|| size of (ZONE_DMA/DMA32) > (System Total Memory)/2
|| Assume Node(A)
        Node (A) is enough big &&
        Node (A)'s ZONE_DMA/DMA32 occupies 60% of Node(A)'s memory.
        (In this case, ZONE_ORDER_ZONE may not offer enough locality...)

otherwise, ZONE_ORDER_ZONE is selected.

Maybe there is no best and simple way to configure zone order. I wrote this 
base on
my experience and discussion on the list.

Anyway, a user can specifiy zone order from boot option/sysctl.

Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-mm1/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-mm1.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm1/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2248,8 +2248,55 @@ static void build_zonelists_in_zone_orde
 
 static int default_zonelist_order(void)
 {
-       /* dummy, just select node order. */
-       return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
+       int nid, zone_type;
+       unsigned long low_kmem_size,total_size;
+       struct zone *z;
+       int average_size;
+       /*
+         * ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 can be very small area in the sytem.
+        * If they are really small and used heavily, the system can fall
+        * into OOM very easily.
+        * This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and confgigures zone order.
+        */
+       /* Is there ZONE_NORMAL ? (ex. ppc has only DMA zone..) */
+       low_kmem_size = 0;
+       total_size = 0;
+       for_each_online_node(nid) {
+               for (zone_type = 0; zone_type < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone_type++) {
+                       z = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[zone_type];
+                       if (populated_zone(z)) {
+                               if (zone_type < ZONE_NORMAL)
+                                       low_kmem_size += z->present_pages;
+                               total_size += z->present_pages;
+                       }
+               }
+       }
+       if (!low_kmem_size ||  /* there are no DMA area. */
+           low_kmem_size > total_size/2) /* DMA/DMA32 is big. */
+               return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
+       /*
+        * look into each node's config.
+        * If there is a node whose DMA/DMA32 memory is very big area on
+        * local memory, NODE_ORDER may be suitable.
+         */
+       average_size = total_size / (num_online_nodes() + 1);
+       for_each_online_node(nid) {
+               low_kmem_size = 0;
+               total_size = 0;
+               for (zone_type = 0; zone_type < MAX_NR_ZONES; zone_type++) {
+                       z = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[zone_type];
+                       if (populated_zone(z)) {
+                               if (zone_type < ZONE_NORMAL)
+                                       low_kmem_size += z->present_pages;
+                               total_size += z->present_pages;
+                       }
+               }
+               if (low_kmem_size &&
+                   total_size > average_size && /* ignore small node */
+                   low_kmem_size > total_size * 70/100)
+                       return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
+       }
+       return ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE;
 }
 
 

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