Commit c6a140bf authored May 24, 2011 by Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Linus Torvalds May 25, 2011

mm/compaction: reverse the change that forbade sync migraton with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD



It's uncertain this has been beneficial, so it's safer to undo it.  All
other compaction users would still go in synchronous mode if a first
attempt at async compaction failed.  Hopefully we don't need to force
special behavior for THP (which is the only __GFP_NO_KSWAPD user so far
and it's the easier to exercise and to be noticeable).  This also make
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD return to its original strict semantics specific to bypass
kswapd, as THP allocations have khugepaged for the async THP
allocations/compactions.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent a6cccdc3

mm/page_alloc.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ rebalance:
		sync_migration);
		if (page)
		goto got_pg;
		sync_migration = !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD);
		sync_migration = true;

		/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
		page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order,

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