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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-12 17:19:43 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -0800 |
commit | a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 (patch) | |
tree | a9529f7af2cf8e77bb6670acea32169c891a2b76 /include/linux/migrate.h | |
parent | 66199712e9eef5aede09dbcd9dfff87798a66917 (diff) | |
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mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.
This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.
[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
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 'include/linux/migrate.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/migrate.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index 14e6d2a88475..eaf867412f7a 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -6,18 +6,31 @@ typedef struct page *new_page_t(struct page *, unsigned long private, int **); +/* + * MIGRATE_ASYNC means never block + * MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT in the current implementation means to allow blocking + * on most operations but not ->writepage as the potential stall time + * is too significant + * MIGRATE_SYNC will block when migrating pages + */ +enum migrate_mode { + MIGRATE_ASYNC, + MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT, + MIGRATE_SYNC, +}; + #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION #define PAGE_MIGRATION 1 extern void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l); extern int migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode); extern int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x, unsigned long private, bool offlining, - bool sync); + enum migrate_mode mode); extern int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x, unsigned long private, bool offlining, - bool sync); + enum migrate_mode mode); extern int fail_migrate_page(struct address_space *, struct page *, struct page *); @@ -36,10 +49,10 @@ extern int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, static inline void putback_lru_pages(struct list_head *l) {} static inline int migrate_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x, unsigned long private, bool offlining, - bool sync) { return -ENOSYS; } + enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; } static inline int migrate_huge_pages(struct list_head *l, new_page_t x, unsigned long private, bool offlining, - bool sync) { return -ENOSYS; } + enum migrate_mode mode) { return -ENOSYS; } static inline int migrate_prep(void) { return -ENOSYS; } static inline int migrate_prep_local(void) { return -ENOSYS; } |