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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/page_alloc.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/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a13ded1938f0..572b93ea475c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1990,7 +1990,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
if (!order)
return NULL;
- if (compaction_deferred(preferred_zone)) {
+ if (compaction_deferred(preferred_zone, order)) {
*deferred_compaction = true;
return NULL;
}
@@ -2012,6 +2012,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
if (page) {
preferred_zone->compact_considered = 0;
preferred_zone->compact_defer_shift = 0;
+ if (order >= preferred_zone->compact_order_failed)
+ preferred_zone->compact_order_failed = order + 1;
count_vm_event(COMPACTSUCCESS);
return page;
}
@@ -2028,7 +2030,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
* defer if the failure was a sync compaction failure.
*/
if (sync_migration)
- defer_compaction(preferred_zone);
+ defer_compaction(preferred_zone, order);
cond_resched();
}