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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-13 05:19:43 +0400 |
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committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2012-08-02 17:37:32 +0400 |
commit | 4df9e19392b2aee80bbe12cd1e6f2fcb7fa3ae3c (patch) | |
tree | 541efb12c225dbe046c67686e238aa2197dac615 /mm/mempolicy.c | |
parent | 34c8ed43743851d7b1ad9e92f5ef7ca0b7ec606f (diff) | |
download | linux-4df9e19392b2aee80bbe12cd1e6f2fcb7fa3ae3c.tar.xz |
mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
commit a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 upstream.
Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that
reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled.
These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data
to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot.
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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index b26aae28d9d9..f2650bcc2d4d 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, int source, int dest, if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) { err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest, - false, true); + false, MIGRATE_SYNC); if (err) putback_lru_pages(&pagelist); } |