On 02/07/2014 06:08 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Purpose of compaction is to get a high order page. Currently, if we find
> high-order page while searching migration target page, we break it to
> order-0 pages and use them as migration target. It is contrary to purpose
> of compaction, so disallow high-order page to be used for
> migration target.
I guess this actually didn't trigger often because with large free blocks available,
compaction shouldn't even be running (unless started manually). But the change makes sense.
> Additionally, clean-up logic in suitable_migration_target() to simply.
simply -> simplify the code.
> There is no functional changes from this clean-up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 3a91a2e..bbe1260 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -217,21 +217,12 @@ static inline bool compact_trylock_irqsave(spinlock_t *lock,
> /* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */
> static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page)
> {
> - int migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
> -
> - /* Don't interfere with memory hot-remove or the min_free_kbytes blocks */
> - if (migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE)
> - return false;
> -
> - if (is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))
> - return false;
> -
> - /* If the page is a large free page, then allow migration */
> + /* If the page is a large free page, then disallow migration */
> if (PageBuddy(page) && page_order(page) >= pageblock_order)
> - return true;
> + return false;
>
> /* If the block is MIGRATE_MOVABLE or MIGRATE_CMA, allow migration */
> - if (migrate_async_suitable(migratetype))
> + if (migrate_async_suitable(get_pageblock_migratetype(page)))
> return true;
>
> /* Otherwise skip the block */
>
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