mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone

kswapd checks all eligible zones to see if they need balancing even if
it was woken for a lower zone.  This made sense when we reclaimed on a
per-zone basis because we wanted to shrink zones fairly so avoid
age-inversion problems.  Ideally this is completely unnecessary when
reclaiming on a per-node basis.  In theory, there may still be anomalies
when all requests are for lower zones and very old pages are preserved
in higher zones but this should be the exceptional case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: gormanm

mm/vmscan.c

@@ -3209,11 +3209,8 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
 
 		sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
 
-		/*
-		 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
-		 * zone which needs scanning
-		 */
-		for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+		/* Scan from the highest requested zone to dma */
+		for (i = classzone_idx; i >= 0; i--) {
 			struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
 
 			if (!populated_zone(zone))