linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/11] mm: compaction: Introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction

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Message-ID: <4EEAC988.80803@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:31:04 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Nai Xia <nai.xia@...il.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] mm: compaction: Introduce sync-light migration
 for use by compaction

On 12/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
> mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async
> compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to
> MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory
> hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used.
>
> This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
> particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be
> a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not
> support ->writepages.
>
> [aarcange@...hat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@...e.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com>

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