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mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 00:23:12 +0000 (10:23 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 05:36:12 +0000 (15:36 +1000)
commit9a71cbaee263e5b1a8e247c057c98ccec927606b
tree680137640fe46e6863df8fbe1fdb7664a7904494
parente90f5690156711f021ed769e43a07c3f71b6f4ed
mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available

While compaction is migrating pages to free up large contiguous blocks for
allocation it races with other allocation requests that may steal these
blocks or break them up.  This patch alters direct compaction to capture a
suitable free page as soon as it becomes available to reduce this race.
It uses similar logic to split_free_page() to ensure that watermarks are
still obeyed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/compaction.h
include/linux/mm.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c