linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/compaction: stop the isolation when we isolate enough freepage

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Date:	Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:31:57 +0100
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.ok@...mail.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/compaction: stop the isolation when we isolate
 enough freepage

On 01/31/2015 08:49 AM, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At 2015/1/30 20:34, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> IMHO, the patch making the free scanner move slower makes both scanners
> meet further. Before this patch, if we isolate too many free pages and even 
> after we release the unneeded free pages later the free scanner still already
> be there and will be moved forward again next time -- the free scanner just
> cannot be moved back to grab the free pages we released before no matter where
> the free pages in, pcp or buddy. 

It can be actually moved back. If we are releasing free pages, it means the
current compaction is terminating, and it will set zone->compact_cached_free_pfn
back to the position of the released free page that was furthest back. The next
compaction will start from the cached free pfn.

It is however possible that another compaction runs in parallel and has
progressed further and overwrites the cached free pfn.


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