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mm: vmscan: do not stall on writeback during memory compaction
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:03:31 +0000 (11:03 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:17:18 +0000 (15:17 +1000)
commit09ea3ce3af11e34102595c0860a7826ce122ed2a
treef2e066fec4e371d52a9729c33b767c7d05772389
parent109b7676392ff810d4c12106b10f954ec8e1c118
mm: vmscan: do not stall on writeback during memory compaction

This patch stops reclaim/compaction entering sync reclaim as this was only
intended for lumpy reclaim and an oversight.  Page migration has its own
logic for stalling on writeback pages if necessary and memory compaction
is already using it.

Waiting on page writeback is bad for a number of reasons but the primary
one is that waiting on writeback to a slow device like USB can take a
considerable length of time.  Page reclaim instead uses
wait_iff_congested() to throttle if too many dirty pages are being
scanned.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/trace/events/vmscan.h
mm/vmscan.c