On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Compaction returns prematurely with COMPACT_PARTIAL when contended or has fatal > signal pending. This is ok for the callers, but might be misleading in the > traces, as the usual reason to return COMPACT_PARTIAL is that we think the > allocation should succeed. This patch distinguishes the premature ending > condition. Further distinguishing the exact reason seems unnecessary for now. isolate_migratepages() could return ISOLATE_ABORT and skip to call compact_finished(). trace_mm_compaction_end() will print COMPACT_PARTIAL in this case and we cannot distinguish premature ending condition. Is it okay? Thanks. -- 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>