should_compact_retry() is called after direct reclaim and compaction have failed to produce a page, to check if there is still enough compactable memory to warrant continuing. If there aren't, one last attempt at the freelists happens in __alloc_pages_may_oom(). The watermark check in should_compact_retry() is not necessary. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 0aa2a0a192dc..52103545d58c 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -2263,13 +2263,6 @@ bool compaction_zonelist_suitable(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist, ac->highest_zoneidx, ac->nodemask) { unsigned long available; - unsigned long watermark; - - /* Allocation can already succeed, nothing to do */ - watermark = wmark_pages(zone, alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK); - if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, watermark, - ac->highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags)) - continue; available = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_MOVABLE); available += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES); -- 2.39.2