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mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware
authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:49:57 +0000 (10:49 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:38:26 +0000 (18:38 +1100)
commita0b2d912402dd75bc9e701d061c8048f5a390aa4
treee1e9b913c41248676bcbf032e59c2239cd42cba5
parente28cbd96bc445d74862ca8e357ec98ad9d2c48de
mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware

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 <>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/vmscan.c