After system runs a long time, it's easy for a zone to have no suitable high order page available and that will stop cluster alloc and free in current implementation due to compact_considered > 0. To make it favour order0 alloc/free, relax the condition to only disallow cluster alloc/free when problem would occur, e.g. when compaction is in progress. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/internal.h | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index e3f209f8fb39..521aa4d8f3c1 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -552,10 +552,6 @@ void try_to_merge_page(struct page *page); #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION static inline bool can_skip_merge(struct zone *zone, int order) { - /* Compaction has failed in this zone, we shouldn't skip merging */ - if (zone->compact_considered) - return false; - /* Only consider no_merge for order 0 pages */ if (order) return false; -- 2.14.3