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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-12 17:19:43 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2012-08-02 14:37:32 +0100 |
| commit | 4df9e19392b2aee80bbe12cd1e6f2fcb7fa3ae3c (patch) | |
| tree | 541efb12c225dbe046c67686e238aa2197dac615 /mm/memory-failure.c | |
| parent | 34c8ed43743851d7b1ad9e92f5ef7ca0b7ec606f (diff) | |
mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
commit a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 upstream.
Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that
reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled.
These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data
to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot.
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.
This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.
[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory-failure.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 06d3479513aa..56080ea36140 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags) page_is_file_cache(page)); list_add(&page->lru, &pagelist); ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, - 0, true); + 0, MIGRATE_SYNC); if (ret) { putback_lru_pages(&pagelist); pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n", |