The patch titled
Subject: mm, compaction: kcompactd should not ignore pageblock skip
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-compaction-kcompactd-should-not-ignore-pageblock-skip.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, compaction: kcompactd should not ignore pageblock skip
Kcompactd is needlessly ignoring pageblock skip information. It is doing
MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction, which is no more powerful than MIGRATE_SYNC
compaction.
If compaction recently failed to isolate memory from a set of pageblocks,
there is nothing to indicate that kcompactd will be able to do so, or that
it is beneficial from attempting to isolate memory.
Use the pageblock skip hint to avoid rescanning pageblocks needlessly
until that information is reset.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1708151638550.106658@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-kcompactd-should-not-ignore-pageblock-skip mm/compaction.c
--- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-kcompactd-should-not-ignore-pageblock-skip
+++ a/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1928,9 +1928,8 @@ static void kcompactd_do_work(pg_data_t
.total_free_scanned = 0,
.classzone_idx = pgdat->kcompactd_classzone_idx,
.mode = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
- .ignore_skip_hint = true,
+ .ignore_skip_hint = false,
.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
-
};
trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_wake(pgdat->node_id, cc.order,
cc.classzone_idx);
_
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