diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 03e67f2..f1b5a0bc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3402,6 +3402,7 @@
 {
 	struct zone *zone;
 	struct zoneref *z;
+	pg_data_t *current_pgdat = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Make sure we converge to OOM if we cannot make any progress
@@ -3411,27 +3412,56 @@
 		return false;
 
 	/*
-	 * Keep reclaiming pages while there is a chance this will lead somewhere.
-	 * If none of the target zones can satisfy our allocation request even
-	 * if all reclaimable pages are considered then we are screwed and have
-	 * to go OOM.
+	 * Blindly retry lowmem allocation requests that are often ignored by
+	 * the OOM killer up to MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES as we not have a reliable
+	 * and fast means of calculating reclaimable, dirty and writeback pages
+	 * in eligible zones.
+	 */
+	if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * Keep reclaiming pages while there is a chance this will lead
+	 * somewhere.  If none of the target zones can satisfy our allocation
+	 * request even if all reclaimable pages are considered then we are
+	 * screwed and have to go OOM.
 	 */
 	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist, ac->high_zoneidx,
 					ac->nodemask) {
 		unsigned long available;
 		unsigned long reclaimable;
+		int zid;
 
-		available = reclaimable = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
+		if (current_pgdat == zone->zone_pgdat)
+			continue;
+
+		current_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
+		available = reclaimable = pgdat_reclaimable_pages(current_pgdat);
 		available -= DIV_ROUND_UP(no_progress_loops * available,
 					  MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES);
-		available += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+
+		/* Account for all free pages on eligible zones */
+		for (zid = 0; zid <= zone_idx(zone); zid++) {
+			struct zone *acct_zone = &current_pgdat->node_zones[zid];
+
+			available += zone_page_state_snapshot(acct_zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Would the allocation succeed if we reclaimed the whole
-		 * available?
+		 * available? This is approximate because there is no
+		 * accurate count of reclaimable pages per zone.
 		 */
-		if (__zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, min_wmark_pages(zone),
-				ac_classzone_idx(ac), alloc_flags, available)) {
+		for (zid = 0; zid <= zone_idx(zone); zid++) {
+			struct zone *check_zone = &current_pgdat->node_zones[zid];
+			unsigned long estimate;
+
+			estimate = min(check_zone->managed_pages, available);
+			if (!__zone_watermark_ok(check_zone, order,
+					min_wmark_pages(check_zone), ac_classzone_idx(ac),
+					alloc_flags, estimate))
+				continue;
+
 			/*
 			 * If we didn't make any progress and have a lot of
 			 * dirty + writeback pages then we should wait for
@@ -3441,15 +3471,16 @@
 			if (!did_some_progress) {
 				unsigned long write_pending;
 
-				write_pending = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone,
-							NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
+				write_pending =
+					node_page_state(current_pgdat, NR_WRITEBACK) +
+					node_page_state(current_pgdat, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 
 				if (2 * write_pending > reclaimable) {
 					congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
 					return true;
 				}
 			}
-
+out:
 			/*
 			 * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ
 			 * context and the current implementation of the WQ