Kcompactd is needlessly ignoring pageblock skip information. It is doing MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction, which is no more powerful than MIGRATE_SYNC compaction. If compaction recently failed to isolate memory from a set of pageblocks, there is nothing to indicate that kcompactd will be able to do so, or that it is beneficial from attempting to isolate memory. Use the pageblock skip hint to avoid rescanning pageblocks needlessly until that information is reset. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1927,9 +1927,8 @@ static void kcompactd_do_work(pg_data_t *pgdat) .total_free_scanned = 0, .classzone_idx = pgdat->kcompactd_classzone_idx, .mode = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT, - .ignore_skip_hint = true, + .ignore_skip_hint = false, .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL, - }; trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_wake(pgdat->node_id, cc.order, cc.classzone_idx); -- 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>
