From 397d9c507ff1c9c5afc80c80ee245c2455d6a1db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:34 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage commit b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. 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 Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/hugetlbfs') diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c index 8b0c875..6ca608b 100644 --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -568,7 +568,8 @@ static int hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty(struct page *page) } static int hugetlbfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, - struct page *newpage, struct page *page) + struct page *newpage, struct page *page, + bool sync) { int rc; -- cgit v1.1