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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>
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:15:10 +0000 (15:15 +1000)
commitb6092ea8b26ae583f745a56525648e4800d820fb
tree47f58a000e4001f16a79d9be5c8619cfb846e575
parent454a7c87cdedd283e87d115f4370fdf136aa33f9
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