linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact

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Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:27:09 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for
 /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:58:41PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the
> /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always
> use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses
> it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory,
> they are willing for that process to stall.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> ---
>  mm/compaction.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 237560e..615502b 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -666,6 +666,7 @@ static int compact_node(int nid)
>  			.nr_freepages = 0,
>  			.nr_migratepages = 0,
>  			.order = -1,
> +			.sync = true,
>  		};
>  
>  		zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid];

Yep I noticed that yesterday too.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
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