summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/mm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c51
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e00f545c2398..634806f55120 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3156,6 +3156,54 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
return NULL;
}
+static inline bool
+should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
+ enum compact_result compact_result,
+ enum compact_priority *compact_priority,
+ int compaction_retries)
+{
+ int max_retries = MAX_COMPACT_RETRIES;
+
+ if (!order)
+ return false;
+
+ /*
+ * compaction considers all the zone as desperately out of memory
+ * so it doesn't really make much sense to retry except when the
+ * failure could be caused by insufficient priority
+ */
+ if (compaction_failed(compact_result)) {
+ if (*compact_priority > MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY) {
+ (*compact_priority)--;
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * make sure the compaction wasn't deferred or didn't bail out early
+ * due to locks contention before we declare that we should give up.
+ * But do not retry if the given zonelist is not suitable for
+ * compaction.
+ */
+ if (compaction_withdrawn(compact_result))
+ return compaction_zonelist_suitable(ac, order, alloc_flags);
+
+ /*
+ * !costly requests are much more important than __GFP_REPEAT
+ * costly ones because they are de facto nofail and invoke OOM
+ * killer to move on while costly can fail and users are ready
+ * to cope with that. 1/4 retries is rather arbitrary but we
+ * would need much more detailed feedback from compaction to
+ * make a better decision.
+ */
+ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ max_retries /= 4;
+ if (compaction_retries <= max_retries)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
#else
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
@@ -3166,8 +3214,6 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
return NULL;
}
-#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
-
static inline bool
should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
enum compact_result compact_result,
@@ -3194,6 +3240,7 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, unsigned int order, int alloc_fla
}
return false;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
/* Perform direct synchronous page reclaim */
static int