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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-01-13 15:47:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -0800 |
| commit | 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 (patch) | |
| tree | 31f0e8efb86d48b0292f8a7ea4bd9cf7c930a0ab /mm/compaction.c | |
| parent | 878aee7d6b5504e01b9caffce080e792b6b8d090 (diff) | |
thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0
This takes advantage of memory compaction to properly generate pages of
order > 0 if regular page reclaim fails and priority level becomes more
severe and we don't reach the proper watermarks.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index da25b5a2e47..60d52a7298d 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct compact_control { unsigned int order; /* order a direct compactor needs */ int migratetype; /* MOVABLE, RECLAIMABLE etc */ struct zone *zone; + + int compact_mode; }; static unsigned long release_freepages(struct list_head *freelist) @@ -382,10 +384,10 @@ static void update_nr_listpages(struct compact_control *cc) } static int compact_finished(struct zone *zone, - struct compact_control *cc) + struct compact_control *cc) { unsigned int order; - unsigned long watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + (1 << cc->order); + unsigned long watermark; if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) return COMPACT_PARTIAL; @@ -395,12 +397,27 @@ static int compact_finished(struct zone *zone, return COMPACT_COMPLETE; /* Compaction run is not finished if the watermark is not met */ + if (cc->compact_mode != COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD) + watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone); + else + watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone); + watermark += (1 << cc->order); + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order, watermark, 0, 0)) return COMPACT_CONTINUE; if (cc->order == -1) return COMPACT_CONTINUE; + /* + * Generating only one page of the right order is not enough + * for kswapd, we must continue until we're above the high + * watermark as a pool for high order GFP_ATOMIC allocations + * too. + */ + if (cc->compact_mode == COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD) + return COMPACT_CONTINUE; + /* Direct compactor: Is a suitable page free? */ for (order = cc->order; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) { /* Job done if page is free of the right migratetype */ @@ -514,8 +531,9 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc) } unsigned long compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, - int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, - bool sync) + int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, + bool sync, + int compact_mode) { struct compact_control cc = { .nr_freepages = 0, @@ -524,6 +542,7 @@ unsigned long compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, .migratetype = allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask), .zone = zone, .sync = sync, + .compact_mode = compact_mode, }; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages); @@ -569,7 +588,8 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask) { int status; - status = compact_zone_order(zone, order, gfp_mask, sync); + status = compact_zone_order(zone, order, gfp_mask, sync, + COMPACT_MODE_DIRECT_RECLAIM); rc = max(status, rc); /* If a normal allocation would succeed, stop compacting */ @@ -600,6 +620,7 @@ static int compact_node(int nid) .nr_freepages = 0, .nr_migratepages = 0, .order = -1, + .compact_mode = COMPACT_MODE_DIRECT_RECLAIM, }; zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid]; |