From f86697953976b465a55e175ac999d43495a1dacc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:43:28 -0800 Subject: mm, compaction: defer only on COMPACT_COMPLETE Deferred compaction is employed to avoid compacting zone where sync direct compaction has recently failed. As such, it makes sense to only defer when a full zone was scanned, which is when compact_zone returns with COMPACT_COMPLETE. It's less useful to defer when compact_zone returns with apparent success (COMPACT_PARTIAL), followed by a watermark check failure, which can happen due to parallel allocation activity. It also does not make much sense to defer compaction which was completely skipped (COMPACT_SKIP) for being unsuitable in the first place. This patch therefore makes deferred compaction trigger only when COMPACT_COMPLETE is returned from compact_zone(). Results of stress-highalloc becnmark show the difference is within measurement error, so the issue is rather cosmetic. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/compaction.c') diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 75f4c1206d00..eaf0a925ff26 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, goto break_loop; } - if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC) { + if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC && status == COMPACT_COMPLETE) { /* * We think that allocation won't succeed in this zone * so we defer compaction there. If it ends up -- cgit v1.2.3