linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 29/37] mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction

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Date:	Tue,  7 Oct 2014 16:19:46 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 29/37] mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

commit 91ca9186484809c57303b33778d841cc28f696ed upstream.

The cached pageblock hint should be ignored when triggering compaction
through /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory so all eligible memory is isolated.
Manually invoking compaction is known to be expensive, there's no need
to skip pageblocks based on heuristics (mainly for debugging).

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/compaction.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1193,6 +1193,7 @@ static void compact_node(int nid)
 	struct compact_control cc = {
 		.order = -1,
 		.sync = true,
+		.ignore_skip_hint = true,
 	};
 
 	__compact_pgdat(NODE_DATA(nid), &cc);


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