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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compaction.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compaction.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h index a1fba9994728..585d55cb0dc0 100644 --- a/include/linux/compaction.h +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -58,6 +58,29 @@ enum compact_result { struct alloc_context; /* in mm/internal.h */ +/* + * Number of free order-0 pages that should be available above given watermark + * to make sure compaction has reasonable chance of not running out of free + * pages that it needs to isolate as migration target during its work. + */ +static inline unsigned long compact_gap(unsigned int order) +{ + /* + * Although all the isolations for migration are temporary, compaction + * free scanner may have up to 1 << order pages on its list and then + * try to split an (order - 1) free page. At that point, a gap of + * 1 << order might not be enough, so it's safer to require twice that + * amount. Note that the number of pages on the list is also + * effectively limited by COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, as that's the maximum + * that the migrate scanner can have isolated on migrate list, and free + * scanner is only invoked when the number of isolated free pages is + * lower than that. But it's not worth to complicate the formula here + * as a bigger gap for higher orders than strictly necessary can also + * improve chances of compaction success. + */ + return 2UL << order; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION extern int sysctl_compact_memory; extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, |