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mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within...
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:19:34 +0000 (17:19 -0800)
committerJerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@oracle.com>
Sun, 7 Oct 2012 06:01:44 +0000 (23:01 -0700)
commit368d46c32de5078189f6f7efecf7d6bd3761d227
treea8c72d7d92675cddbee9a2f34faf2713f4a30a8d
parent6374ab2d08aae6c605574ff32bb28525d6c6591e
mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage

commit b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 upstream.

Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page
aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect
of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series
to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix.

Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to
avoid blocking for long periods of time.  Due to reports of stalling,
there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely
impacted allocation success rates.  Part of the reason was that many dirty
pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check;

if (PageDirty(page) && !sync &&
mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page)
rc = -EBUSY;

This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though
it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking.  This
patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter.  It is
the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would
block.

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>
(cherry picked from commit 397d9c507ff1c9c5afc80c80ee245c2455d6a1db)

Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@oracle.com>
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
fs/nfs/internal.h
fs/nfs/write.c
include/linux/fs.h
include/linux/migrate.h
mm/migrate.c