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mm, compaction: more reliably increase direct compaction priority
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:00:31 +0000 (17:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:46:28 +0000 (18:46 -0700)
commitf5e33762f331ce768d32541b26d3264c58273a72
treedb3c779c262e057badc1dbff2004f45666e79a32
parenta9be4c04055095d8ec4f2c0f7ef5b8637217bc29
mm, compaction: more reliably increase direct compaction priority

During reclaim/compaction loop, compaction priority can be increased by
the should_compact_retry() function, but the current code is not
optimal.  Priority is only increased when compaction_failed() is true,
which means that compaction has scanned the whole zone.  This may not
happen even after multiple attempts with a lower priority due to
parallel activity, so we might needlessly struggle on the lower
priorities and possibly run out of compaction retry attempts in the
process.

After this patch we are guaranteed at least one attempt at the highest
compaction priority even if we exhaust all retries at the lower
priorities.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c