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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2019-03-06 02:45:31 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-06 08:07:17 +0300 |
| commit | dbe2d4e4f12e07c6a2215e3603a5f77056323081 (patch) | |
| tree | 03ac02c91b3900b20c999bbc48c064f5c584afd6 /mm/page_vma_mapped.c | |
| parent | d097a6f63522547dfc7c75c7084a05b6a7f9e838 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dbe2d4e4f12e07c6a2215e3603a5f77056323081.tar.xz | |
mm, compaction: round-robin the order while searching the free lists for a target
As compaction proceeds and creates high-order blocks, the free list
search gets less efficient as the larger blocks are used as compaction
targets. Eventually, the larger blocks will be behind the migration
scanner for partially migrated pageblocks and the search fails. This
patch round-robins what orders are searched so that larger blocks can be
ignored and find smaller blocks that can be used as migration targets.
The overall impact was small on 1-socket but it avoids corner cases
where the migration/free scanners meet prematurely or situations where
many of the pageblocks encountered by the free scanner are almost full
instead of being properly packed. Previous testing had indicated that
without this patch there were occasional large spikes in the free
scanner without this patch.
[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-20-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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