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Message-ID: <20141023081543.GB7598@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:15:44 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	cl@...ux.com, mgorman@...e.de, mina86@...a86.com,
	minchan@...nel.org, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, riel@...hat.com,
	rientjes@...gle.com, vbabka@...e.cz, zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: +
 mm-compaction-avoid-premature-range-skip-in-isolate_migratepages_range.patch
 added to -mm tree

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:53:44PM -0700, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: mm/compaction.c: avoid premature range skip in isolate_migratepages_range
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      mm-compaction-avoid-premature-range-skip-in-isolate_migratepages_range.patch
> 
> This patch should soon appear at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-compaction-avoid-premature-range-skip-in-isolate_migratepages_range.patch
> and later at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-compaction-avoid-premature-range-skip-in-isolate_migratepages_range.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Subject: mm/compaction.c: avoid premature range skip in isolate_migratepages_range
> 
> commit edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from
> isolate_migratepages_range()") commonizes isolate_migratepages variants
> and make them use isolate_migratepages_block().
> 
> isolate_migratepages_block() could stop the execution when enough pages
> are isolated, but, there is no code in isolate_migratepages_range() to
> handle this case.  In the result, even if isolate_migratepages_block()
> returns prematurely without checking all pages in the range,
> 
> isolate_migratepages_block() is called repeately on the following
> pageblock and some pages in the previous range are skipped to check.
> Then, CMA is failed frequently due to this fact.
> 
> To fix this problem, this patch let isolate_migratepages_range() know the
> situation that enough pages are isolated and stop the isolation in that
> case.
> 
> Note that isolate_migratepages() has no such problem, because, it always
> stops the isolation after just one call of isolate_migratepages_block().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Hello, Andrew.

I forgot to mention that this should be merged for v3.18. :)

Thanks.
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