linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/vmscan: not check compaction

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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:04:46 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>
Cc:	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, riel@...hat.com,
	'Minchan Kim' <minchan@...nel.org>, weijie.yang.kh@...il.com,
	'Linux-MM' <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/vmscan: not check compaction_ready on promoted
 zones

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:42:34PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> We abort direct reclaim if find the zone is ready for compaction.
> Sometimes the zone is just a promoted highmem zone to force scan
> pinning highmem, which is not the intended zone the caller want to
> alloc page from. In this situation, setting aborted_reclaim to
> indicate the caller turn back to retry allocation is waste of time
> and could cause a loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath().
> 
> This patch do not check compaction_ready() on promoted zones to avoid
> the above situation, only set aborted_reclaim if the caller intended
> zone is ready to compaction.
> 
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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