mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis
This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis. A reclaimer knows what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages from higher zones. In many cases this will be ok because it's a GFP_HIGHMEM request of some description. On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests will cause some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are increasingly rare. Historically it would have been a major problem on 32-bit with big Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also now rare and even where they exist, they are not encouraged. If it really becomes a problem, it'll manifest as very low reclaim efficiencies. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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