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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2012-03-21 16:33:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:54:56 -0700
commitaff622495c9a0b56148192e53bdec539f5e147f2 (patch)
tree78f6400d8b6bec3279483006a0e9543e47aa833e /mm/compaction.c
parent7be62de99adcab4449d416977b4274985c5fe023 (diff)
vmscan: only defer compaction for failed order and higher
Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can lead to memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory zone. Even if we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, eg. for jumbo frames networking. The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest order at which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction for orders at which compaction is failing. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 36f0f61f4a2..c4b344a9503 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -695,9 +695,19 @@ static int __compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct compact_control *cc)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->freepages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc->migratepages);
- if (cc->order < 0 || !compaction_deferred(zone))
+ if (cc->order < 0 || !compaction_deferred(zone, cc->order))
compact_zone(zone, cc);
+ if (cc->order > 0) {
+ int ok = zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order,
+ low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0);
+ if (ok && cc->order > zone->compact_order_failed)
+ zone->compact_order_failed = cc->order + 1;
+ /* Currently async compaction is never deferred. */
+ else if (!ok && cc->sync)
+ defer_compaction(zone, cc->order);
+ }
+
VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc->freepages));
VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc->migratepages));
}