Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +/*
> > + * Only custom zonelists like MPOL_BIND need to be filtered as part of
> > + * policies. As described in the comment for struct zonelist_cache, these
> > + * zonelists will not have a zlcache so zlcache_ptr will not be set. Use
> > + * that to determine if the zonelists needs to be filtered or not.
> > + */
> > +static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
> > +{
> > +	return !zonelist->zlcache_ptr;
> > +}
> 
> I guess Paul needs to have a look at this one.

Which Paul?

> Otherwise
> 
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> 
> > @@ -1166,6 +1167,18 @@ zonelist_scan:
> >  	z = zonelist->zones;
> >  
> >  	do {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * In NUMA, this could be a policy zonelist which contains
> > +		 * zones that may not be allowed by the current gfp_mask.
> > +		 * Check the zone is allowed by the current flags
> > +		 */
> > +		if (unlikely(alloc_should_filter_zonelist(zonelist))) {
> > +			if (highest_zoneidx == -1)
> > +				highest_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
> > +			if (zone_idx(*z) > highest_zoneidx)
> > +				continue;
> > +		}
> > +
> >  		if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active &&
> 
> Hotpath. Sigh.