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vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:09:33 +0000 (17:09 -0700)
committerJerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@oracle.com>
Sun, 7 Oct 2012 06:00:26 +0000 (23:00 -0700)
commit4f49825e02a3aeda9f6cec1c589ac8f7b96c2eb9
treeae25b24d75b6dbb216f5e6a0054f06a9683902f2
parent0d1019962a73a0fd87398a25dafbb978f9678f23
vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed

commit e0c23279c9f800c403f37511484d9014ac83adec upstream.

Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to
aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different
situations that was addressed piecemeal over time.

If compaction can proceed, shrink_zones() stops doing any work but its
callers still call shrink_slab() which raises the priority and potentially
sleeps.  This is unnecessary and wasteful so this patch aborts direct
reclaim/compaction entirely if compaction can proceed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@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 4682e89d1455d66e2536d9efb2875d61a1f1f294)

Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@oracle.com>
mm/vmscan.c