The patch titled Subject: mm: compaction: drop redundant watermark check in compaction_zonelist_suitable() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-compaction-drop-redundant-watermark-check-in-compaction_zonelist_suitable.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-compaction-drop-redundant-watermark-check-in-compaction_zonelist_suitable.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: compaction: drop redundant watermark check in compaction_zonelist_suitable() Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 14:39:59 +0200 The watermark check in compaction_zonelist_suitable(), called from should_compact_retry(), is sandwiched between two watermark checks already: before, there are freelist attempts as part of direct reclaim and direct compaction; after, there is a last-minute freelist attempt in __alloc_pages_may_oom(). The check in compaction_zonelist_suitable() isn't necessary. Kill it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230519123959.77335-6-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-drop-redundant-watermark-check-in-compaction_zonelist_suitable +++ a/mm/compaction.c @@ -2301,13 +2301,6 @@ bool compaction_zonelist_suitable(struct 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; /* * Do not consider all the reclaimable memory because we do not _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-compaction-remove-compaction-result-helpers.patch mm-compaction-simplify-should_compact_retry.patch mm-compaction-refactor-__compaction_suitable.patch mm-compaction-remove-unnecessary-is_via_compact_memory-checks.patch mm-compaction-drop-redundant-watermark-check-in-compaction_zonelist_suitable.patch