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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-12 17:19:43 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-08-01 12:27:18 -0700 |
| commit | f869774c37710ef2b773d167d184b9936988d07f (patch) | |
| tree | 6cb482ccf2bc641c5b7c9cc324af2e5f877b2887 /mm/compaction.c | |
| parent | 9203b3fa57cc16bf1ad1be7c64b01b5e45cc6151 (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: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index da449202ff9..8ea7308601b 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc) nr_migrate = cc->nr_migratepages; err = migrate_pages(&cc->migratepages, compaction_alloc, (unsigned long)cc, false, - cc->sync); + cc->sync ? MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT : MIGRATE_ASYNC); update_nr_listpages(cc); nr_remaining = cc->nr_migratepages; |