From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:07:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: page_alloc: abort fair zone allocation policy when remotes nodes are encountered
X-Git-Tag: cleanup-for-v3.18~96^2~115
X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7b5d647946aae1647bf5cd26c16b3a793c1ac49;p=pandora-kernel.git

mm: page_alloc: abort fair zone allocation policy when remotes nodes are encountered

The purpose of numa_zonelist_order=zone is to preserve lower zones for
use with 32-bit devices.  If locality is preferred then the
numa_zonelist_order=node policy should be used.

Unfortunately, the fair zone allocation policy overrides this by
skipping zones on remote nodes until the lower one is found.  While this
makes sense from a page aging and performance perspective, it breaks the
expected zonelist policy.  This patch restores the expected behaviour
for zone-list ordering.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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