From b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:34 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling, there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check; if (PageDirty(page) && !sync && mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page) rc = -EBUSY; This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would block. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/migrate.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/migrate.h') diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index e39aeecfe9a2..14e6d2a88475 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **); extern void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l); extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *); + struct page *, struct page *, bool); extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x, unsigned long private, bool offlining, bool sync); -- cgit v1.2.3