From b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:34 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling, there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check; if (PageDirty(page) && !sync && mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page) rc = -EBUSY; This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would block. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/nfs/internal.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/nfs/internal.h') diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h index 5ee92538b063..114398a15830 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/internal.h +++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void nfs_commit_release_pages(struct nfs_write_data *data); #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *); + struct page *, struct page *, bool); #else #define nfs_migrate_page NULL #endif -- cgit v1.2.3 From a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:43 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 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 Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/nfs/internal.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/nfs/internal.h') diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h index 114398a15830..8102db9b926c 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/internal.h +++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void nfs_commit_release_pages(struct nfs_write_data *data); #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode); #else #define nfs_migrate_page NULL #endif -- cgit v1.2.3