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mm: compaction: abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchr...
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:08:52 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:04:02 +0000 (20:04 -0700)
commit05fb73933578af063810e5c048d4da9fdee8dce5
treed489fff3885bb7c4df0eebd2f074a398420740e6
parent7c6a394698998df9794ee28433c776aea428eb2c
mm: compaction: abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous V2

Asynchronous compaction is used when promoting to huge pages.  This is all
very nice but if there are a number of processes in compacting memory, a
large number of pages can be isolated.  An "asynchronous" process can
stall for long periods of time as a result with a user reporting that
firefox can stall for 10s of seconds.  This patch aborts asynchronous
compaction if too many pages are isolated as it's better to fail a
hugepage promotion than stall a process.

[minchan.kim@gmail.com: return COMPACT_PARTIAL for abort]
Reported-and-tested-by: Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c