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    vmscan: respect higher order in zone_reclaim() · bd2f6199
    Johannes Weiner authored
    During page allocation, there are two stages of direct reclaim that are
    applied to each zone in the preferred list.  The first stage using
    zone_reclaim() reclaims unmapped file backed pages and slab pages if over
    defined limits as these are cheaper to reclaim.  The caller specifies the
    order of the target allocation but the scan control is not being correctly
    initialised.
    
    The impact is that the correct number of pages are being reclaimed but
    that lumpy reclaim is not being applied.  This increases the chances of a
    full direct reclaim via try_to_free_pages() is required.
    
    This patch initialises the order field of the scan control as requested by
    the caller.
    
    [mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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