From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> At present MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT is allowing __isolate_lru_page() to isolate a PageWriteback page, which __unmap_and_move() then rejects with -EBUSY: of course the writeback might complete in between, but that's not what we usually expect, so probably better not to isolate it. When tested by stress-highalloc from mmtests, this has reduced the number of page migrate failures by 60-70%. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index c611b8a42023..b7b696e46eaa 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page; const isolate_mode_t isolate_mode = (sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed ? ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE : 0) | - (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC ? ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE : 0); + (cc->mode != MIGRATE_SYNC ? ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE : 0); /* * Start at where we last stopped, or beginning of the zone as -- 2.8.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>