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In async mode, compaction doesn't migrate dirty or writeback pages. So,
authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:44 +0000 (09:46 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:13:51 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
commit871add218f6aadae23b31c1561b1e70a47f22087
treefc1ed1757a5512bbf92cad900340cb5768c00355
parent23dbfe1af3d755858e63b78c9c0202f77a7a79dd
In async mode, compaction doesn't migrate dirty or writeback pages.  So,
it's meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to lru list.

Of course, when we isolate the page in compaction, the page might be dirty
or writeback but when we try to migrate the page, the page would be not
dirty, writeback.  So it could be migrated.  But it's very unlikely as
isolate and migration cycle is much faster than writeout.

So, this patch helps cpu overhead and prevent unnecessary LRU churning.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/vmscan.c