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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2012-03-21 16:33:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:54:56 -0700
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vmscan: only defer compaction for failed order and higher
Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can lead to memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory zone. Even if we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, eg. for jumbo frames networking. The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest order at which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction for orders at which compaction is failing. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b2b4c4a0ada2..87e4d6a6dc11 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
* If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
* compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
*/
- if (compaction_deferred(zone))
+ if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
return watermark_ok;
/* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */