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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-12 17:19:43 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -0800 |
| commit | a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 (patch) | |
| tree | a9529f7af2cf8e77bb6670acea32169c891a2b76 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 66199712e9eef5aede09dbcd9dfff87798a66917 (diff) | |
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 <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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b92b73d0b2b9..e694bd4434a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ enum positive_aop_returns { struct page; struct address_space; struct writeback_control; +enum migrate_mode; struct iov_iter { const struct iovec *iov; @@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { * is false, it must not block. */ int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long); @@ -2540,7 +2541,8 @@ extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64); #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, + enum migrate_mode); #else #define buffer_migrate_page NULL #endif |