mm: default to node zonelist ordering when nodes have only lowmem
There are two types of zonelist ordering methodologies:
- node order, preferring allocations on a node to stay local to and
- zone order, preferring allocations come from a higher zone to avoid
allocating in lowmem zones even though they may not be local.
The ordering technique used by the kernel is configurable on the command
line, but also has some logic to determine what the default should be.
This logic currently lacks knowledge of systems where a node may only have
lowmem. For such systems, it is necessary to use node order so that
GFP_KERNEL allocations may be satisfied by nodes consisting of only
lowmem.
If zone order is used, GFP_KERNEL allocations to such nodes are actually
allocated on a node with local affinity that includes ZONE_NORMAL.
This change defaults to node zonelist ordering if any node lacks
ZONE_NORMAL.
To force zone order, append 'numa_zonelist_order=zone' to the kernel
command line.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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