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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-05-24 14:32:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 08:07:00 -0700
commit4f92e2586b43a2402e116055d4edda704f911b5b (patch)
tree6a765ebeba951c02a7878bcea52a4769ad2e45c2 /include/linux/mmzone.h
parent5e7719058079a1423ccce56148b0aaa56b2df821 (diff)
mm: compaction: defer compaction using an exponential backoff when compaction fails
The fragmentation index may indicate that a failure is due to external fragmentation but after a compaction run completes, it is still possible for an allocation to fail. There are two obvious reasons as to why o Page migration cannot move all pages so fragmentation remains o A suitable page may exist but watermarks are not met In the event of compaction followed by an allocation failure, this patch defers further compaction in the zone (1 << compact_defer_shift) times. If the next compaction attempt also fails, compact_defer_shift is increased up to a maximum of 6. If compaction succeeds, the defer counters are reset again. The zone that is deferred is the first zone in the zonelist - i.e. the preferred zone. To defer compaction in the other zones, the information would need to be stored in the zonelist or implemented similar to the zonelist_cache. This would impact the fast-paths and is not justified at this time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index cf9e458e96b0..fd55f725a09e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ struct zone {
unsigned long *pageblock_flags;
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
+ /*
+ * On compaction failure, 1<<compact_defer_shift compactions
+ * are skipped before trying again. The number attempted since
+ * last failure is tracked with compact_considered.
+ */
+ unsigned int compact_considered;
+ unsigned int compact_defer_shift;
+#endif
ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)