On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:

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.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <redacted>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <redacted>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

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