linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] mm: minor fixes for compaction

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:13:04 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, jaschut@...dia.gov,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: [PATCH -mm] mm: minor fixes for compaction

This patch makes the comment for cc->wrapped longer, explaining
what is really going on. It also incorporates the comment fix
pointed out by Minchan.

Additionally, Minchan found that, when no pages get isolated,
high_pte could be a value that is much lower than desired,
which might potentially cause compaction to skip a range of
pages.

Only assign zone->compact_cache_free_pfn if we actually
isolated free pages for compaction.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---
This does not address the one bit in Minchan's review that I am not sure about...

 include/linux/mmzone.h |    2 +-
 mm/compaction.c        |    7 ++++---
 mm/internal.h          |    6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e629594..e957fa1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ struct zone {
 	spinlock_t		lock;
 	int                     all_unreclaimable; /* All pages pinned */
 #if defined CONFIG_COMPACTION || defined CONFIG_CMA
-	/* pfn where the last order > 0 compaction isolated free pages */
+	/* pfn where the last incremental compaction isolated free pages */
 	unsigned long		compact_cached_free_pfn;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 2668b77..2867166 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -472,10 +472,11 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
 		 * looking for free pages, the search will restart here as
 		 * page migration may have returned some pages to the allocator
 		 */
-		if (isolated)
+		if (isolated) {
 			high_pfn = max(high_pfn, pfn);
-		if (cc->order > 0)
-			zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = high_pfn;
+			if (cc->order > 0)
+				zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = high_pfn;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* split_free_page does not map the pages */
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 0b72461..da6b9b2 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -121,7 +121,11 @@ struct compact_control {
 	unsigned long start_free_pfn;	/* where we started the search */
 	unsigned long migrate_pfn;	/* isolate_migratepages search base */
 	bool sync;			/* Synchronous migration */
-	bool wrapped;			/* Last round for order>0 compaction */
+	bool wrapped;			/* Order > 0 compactions are
+					   incremental, once free_pfn
+					   and migrate_pfn meet, we restart
+					   from the top of the zone;
+					   remember we wrapped around. */
 
 	int order;			/* order a direct compactor needs */
 	int migratetype;		/* MOVABLE, RECLAIMABLE etc */

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