linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] mm: migration: Allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path

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Message-ID: <20101201102828.GM15564@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:28:28 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] mm: migration: Allow migration to operate
 asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:43:52PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails.
> Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the
> caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not
> going to have a significantly better success rate.
> 
> This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to
> indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not. For
> reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called asynchronously,
> direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is called synchronously
> as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
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