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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-01-12 17:19:43 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-01 12:27:18 -0700
commitf869774c37710ef2b773d167d184b9936988d07f (patch)
tree6cb482ccf2bc641c5b7c9cc324af2e5f877b2887 /fs/nfs
parent9203b3fa57cc16bf1ad1be7c64b01b5e45cc6151 (diff)
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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: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/internal.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/write.c4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index a74442ae6884..4f10d8188ab6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ void nfs_commit_release_pages(struct nfs_write_data *data);
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
- struct page *, struct page *, bool);
+ struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);
#else
#define nfs_migrate_page NULL
#endif
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 22a48fdee3cf..58bb9994b947 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ out_error:
#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
- struct page *page, bool sync)
+ struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode)
{
/*
* If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with
@@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
nfs_fscache_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
- return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
+ return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
}
#endif