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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/vmscan.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/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index cfdef0bcc7ab..f5b762ae23a2 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ #include <linux/memcontrol.h> #include <linux/delayacct.h> #include <linux/sysctl.h> +#include <linux/compaction.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/div64.h> @@ -2382,6 +2383,7 @@ loop_again: * cause too much scanning of the lower zones. */ for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) { + int compaction; struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; int nr_slab; @@ -2411,9 +2413,26 @@ loop_again: lru_pages); sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab; total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned; + + compaction = 0; + if (order && + zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, + high_wmark_pages(zone), + end_zone, 0) && + !zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, + high_wmark_pages(zone), + end_zone, 0)) { + compact_zone_order(zone, + order, + sc.gfp_mask, false, + COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD); + compaction = 1; + } + if (zone->all_unreclaimable) continue; - if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) + if (!compaction && nr_slab == 0 && + !zone_reclaimable(zone)) zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; /* * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and @@ -2424,15 +2443,6 @@ loop_again: total_scanned > sc.nr_reclaimed + sc.nr_reclaimed / 2) sc.may_writepage = 1; - /* - * Compact the zone for higher orders to reduce - * latencies for higher-order allocations that - * would ordinarily call try_to_compact_pages() - */ - if (sc.order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) - compact_zone_order(zone, sc.order, sc.gfp_mask, - false); - if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0)) { all_zones_ok = 0; |