linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm, compaction: disginguish contended status in tracepoint

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Date:	Mon, 7 Sep 2015 14:53:06 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm, compaction: disginguish contended status in
 tracepoint

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Compaction returns prematurely with COMPACT_PARTIAL when contended or has fatal
> signal pending. This is ok for the callers, but might be misleading in the
> traces, as the usual reason to return COMPACT_PARTIAL is that we think the
> allocation should succeed. This patch distinguishes the premature ending
> condition. Further distinguishing the exact reason seems unnecessary for now.

isolate_migratepages() could return ISOLATE_ABORT and skip to call
compact_finished(). trace_mm_compaction_end() will print
COMPACT_PARTIAL in this case and we cannot distinguish premature
ending condition. Is it okay?

Thanks.

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