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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2016-10-08 02:00:34 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 03:46:29 +0200
commitc2033b00dbe856909fcaccf038e4e0d3dcfb85af (patch)
tree866c7d2177b8547188ecde9879e687d2e98ad5ab /mm
parentmm, compaction: more reliably increase direct compaction priority (diff)
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mm, compaction: restrict full priority to non-costly orders
The new ultimate compaction priority disables some heuristics, which may result in excessive cost. This is fine for non-costly orders where we want to try hard before resulting for OOM, but might be disruptive for costly orders which do not trigger OOM and should generally have some fallback. Thus, we disable the full priority for costly orders. Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a8703b592c39..891e3881a6e0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3163,6 +3163,7 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
int *compaction_retries)
{
int max_retries = MAX_COMPACT_RETRIES;
+ int min_priority;
if (!order)
return false;
@@ -3205,7 +3206,9 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
* all retries or failed at the lower priorities.
*/
check_priority:
- if (*compact_priority > MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY) {
+ min_priority = (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) ?
+ MIN_COMPACT_COSTLY_PRIORITY : MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY;
+ if (*compact_priority > min_priority) {
(*compact_priority)--;
*compaction_retries = 0;
return true;