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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-13 01:19:34 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-13 04:13:09 (GMT) |
commit | b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 (patch) | |
tree | dc1c6e4375cfec7b15f13a37307eba8a9e07f40f /fs/nfs/write.c | |
parent | 7335084d446b83cbcb15da80497d03f0c1dc9e21 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0.tar.xz |
mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage
Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to
avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling,
there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely
impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty
pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check;
if (PageDirty(page) && !sync &&
mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page)
rc = -EBUSY;
This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though
it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This
patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is
the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would
block.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/write.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/write.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index 0c38852..889e98b 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ out_error: #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, - struct page *page) + struct page *page, bool sync) { /* * If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage, nfs_fscache_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL); - return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page); + return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync); } #endif |