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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2011-01-13 15:45:56 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:33 -0800
commit3e7d344970673c5334cf7b5bb27c8c0942b06126 (patch)
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mm: vmscan: reclaim order-0 and use compaction instead of lumpy reclaim
Lumpy reclaim is disruptive. It reclaims a large number of pages and ignores the age of the pages it reclaims. This can incur significant stalls and potentially increase the number of major faults. Compaction has reached the point where it is considered reasonably stable (meaning it has passed a lot of testing) and is a potential candidate for displacing lumpy reclaim. This patch introduces an alternative to lumpy reclaim whe compaction is available called reclaim/compaction. The basic operation is very simple - instead of selecting a contiguous range of pages to reclaim, a number of order-0 pages are reclaimed and then compaction is later by either kswapd (compact_zone_order()) or direct compaction (__alloc_pages_direct_compact()). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional task_struct naming] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 6ae8a66a7045..94875b265928 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -639,6 +639,23 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
if (!trylock_page(page)) {
if (!force)
goto move_newpage;
+
+ /*
+ * It's not safe for direct compaction to call lock_page.
+ * For example, during page readahead pages are added locked
+ * to the LRU. Later, when the IO completes the pages are
+ * marked uptodate and unlocked. However, the queueing
+ * could be merging multiple pages for one bio (e.g.
+ * mpage_readpages). If an allocation happens for the
+ * second or third page, the process can end up locking
+ * the same page twice and deadlocking. Rather than
+ * trying to be clever about what pages can be locked,
+ * avoid the use of lock_page for direct compaction
+ * altogether.
+ */
+ if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+ goto move_newpage;
+
lock_page(page);
}