linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: fix the page state calculation in too_many

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Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:38:42 +0100
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mgorman@...e.de, minchan@...nel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: fix the page state calculation in too_many_isolated

On 01/22/2015 01:58 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
>> I think in case of async compaction, we could skip the safe stuff and just
>> terminate it - it's already done when too_many_isolated returns true, and
>> there's no congestion waiting in that case.
>>
>> So you could extend the too_many_isolated() with "safe" parameter (as you did
>> for vmscan) and pass it "cc->mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC" value from
>> isolate_migrate_block().
>>
>
> Or just pass it struct compact_control *cc and use both cc->zone and
> cc->mode inside this compaction-only function.

Yeah,

in any case, please wait until the discussion about the vmscan fix is 
resolved, before reposting this.

Thanks.

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