[PATCH] separation of direct-reclaim and kswapd functions

There is some lack of clarity in what kswapd does and what
direct-reclaim tasks do; try_to_free_pages() tries to service both
functions, and they are different.

- kswapd's role is to keep all zones on its node at

	zone->free_pages >= zone->pages_high.

  and to never stop as long as any zones do not meet that condition.

- A direct reclaimer's role is to try to free some pages from the
  zones which are suitable for this particular allocation request, and
  to return when that has been achieved, or when all the relevant zones
  are at

	zone->free_pages >= zone->pages_high.

The patch explicitly separates these two code paths; kswapd does not
run try_to_free_pages() any more.  kswapd should not be aware of zone
fallbacks.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index dab0f76cfb20..2b83fca9e08d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct zone {
 	spinlock_t		lock;
 	unsigned long		free_pages;
 	unsigned long		pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
-	int			need_balance;
 
 	ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)