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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2014-12-10 15:43:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:06 -0800
commit97d47a65be1e513edd02325ae828c9997878b578 (patch)
tree448af70cf65656d52889586d9022cb47996f1a4b /include/linux/compaction.h
parentebff398017c69a3810bcbc5200ba224d5ccaa207 (diff)
mm, compaction: simplify deferred compaction
Since commit 53853e2d2bfb ("mm, compaction: defer each zone individually instead of preferred zone"), compaction is deferred for each zone where sync direct compaction fails, and reset where it succeeds. However, it was observed that for DMA zone compaction often appeared to succeed while subsequent allocation attempt would not, due to different outcome of watermark check. In order to properly defer compaction in this zone, the candidate zone has to be passed back to __alloc_pages_direct_compact() and compaction deferred in the zone after the allocation attempt fails. The large source of mismatch between watermark check in compaction and allocation was the lack of alloc_flags and classzone_idx values in compaction, which has been fixed in the previous patch. So with this problem fixed, we can simplify the code by removing the candidate_zone parameter and deferring in __alloc_pages_direct_compact(). After this patch, the compaction activity during stress-highalloc benchmark is still somewhat increased, but it's negligible compared to the increase that occurred without the better watermark checking. This suggests that it is still possible to apparently succeed in compaction but fail to allocate, possibly due to parallel allocation activity. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compaction.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compaction.h6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index d896765a15b0..3238ffa33f68 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
extern unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask,
enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended,
- int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx,
- struct zone **candidate_zone);
+ int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx);
extern void compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order);
extern void reset_isolation_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat);
extern unsigned long compaction_suitable(struct zone *zone, int order,
@@ -105,8 +104,7 @@ static inline bool compaction_restarting(struct zone *zone, int order)
static inline unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask,
enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended,
- int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx,
- struct zone **candidate_zone)
+ int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx)
{
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
}