Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:08:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary recalculations for dirty zone balancing |
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> > > File-backed pages that will be immediately dirtied are balanced between > zones but it's unnecessarily expensive. Move consider_zone_balanced into > the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps multiple times. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
consider_zone_dirty eliminates zones over their dirty limits and zone_dirty_ok() returns true if zones are under their dirty limits, so the naming of both are a little strange. You might consider changing them while you're here.
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