From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> When __rmqueue_fallback() don't find out a free block with the same size of required, it splits a larger page and puts back rest peiece of the page to free list. But it has one serious mistake. When putting back, __rmqueue_fallback() always use start_migratetype if type is not CMA. However, __rmqueue_fallback() is only called when all of start_migratetype queue are empty. That said, __rmqueue_fallback always put back memory to wrong queue except try_to_steal_freepages() changed pageblock type (i.e. requested size is smaller than half of page block). Finally, antifragmentation framework increase fragmenation instead of decrease. Mel's original anti fragmentation do the right thing. But commit 47118af076 (mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added) broke it. This patch restores sane and old behavior. Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index dd886fa..ea7bb9a 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, int order, int start_migratetype) */ expand(zone, page, order, current_order, area, is_migrate_cma(migratetype) - ? migratetype : start_migratetype); + ? migratetype : new_type); trace_mm_page_alloc_extfrag(page, order, current_order, start_migratetype, migratetype, -- 1.7.1 -- 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>