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    Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE · b377fd39
    Mel Gorman authored
    The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone.  When
    ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes
    ZONE_MOVABLE.  The result is that policies are only applied to allocations
    like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the
    zone is used.
    
    This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone
    is ZONE_MOVABLE.  As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real"
    zone, it's always functionally equivalent.
    
    The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA
    covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64.  No abnormal results were seen in
    kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench.  It passes regression tests from
    the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are
    patched to wait for vmstat counters to update.
    
    akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of
    ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23.  Christoph says "For .24 either merge
    the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on.  That solution
    would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly.  That may
    help performance and also help to make memory policies work better."
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Acked-by: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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