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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>
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:02:58 +0000 (17:02 +1000)
commit9a889934b6d419e9a3b1e230dd7b0509a0be6b2f
tree838c5a4063e93bf93a00a9ab7b4e32aa30e9ad05
parent56e2cd5d6a4c8de4034ad631809ce8a7f64b353a
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