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Mel Gorman fe4b1b244b mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available 
In commit e0887c19 ("vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order
allocations"), Rik noted that reclaim was too aggressive when THP was
enabled.  In his initial patch he used the number of free pages to decide
if reclaim should abort for compaction.  My feedback was that reclaim and
compaction should be using the same logic when deciding if reclaim should
be aborted.

Unfortunately, this had the effect of reducing THP success rates when the
workload included something like streaming reads that continually
allocated pages.  The window during which compaction could run and return
a THP was too small.

This patch combines Rik's two patches together.  compaction_suitable() is
still used to decide if reclaim should be aborted to allow compaction is
used.  However, it will also ensure that there is a reasonable buffer of
free pages available.  This improves upon the THP allocation success rates
but bounds the number of pages that are freed for compaction.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
backing-dev.c freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop() 2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: bootmem: try harder to free pages in bulk 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap.c memcg: add mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache() to fix LRU issue 2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c thp: improve order in lru list for split huge page 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: avoid bogus counter of surplus huge page 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
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kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
ksm.c memcg: clear pc->mem_cgroup if necessary. 2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
memblock.c memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator 2011-12-08 10:22:09 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcg: cleanup for_each_node_state() 2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
memory.c thp: add tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mempool.c mempool: fix first round failure behavior 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
migrate.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c mm: simplify find_vma_prev() 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c
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mremap.c mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge() succeeding in copy_vma() 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
msync.c
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nobootmem.c Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
nommu.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
oom_kill.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
page-writeback.c Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux 2012-01-10 16:59:59 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
page_cgroup.c page_cgroup: drop multi CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c
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pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c
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percpu-vm.c percpu: fix chunk range calculation 2011-11-22 08:09:46 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: fix per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() handling of non-page-aligned addresses 2011-12-15 11:41:40 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c
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prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
shmem.c vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-01-11 18:52:23 -08:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
swap.c thp: improve order in lru list for split huge page 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
swap_state.c memcg: clear pc->mem_cgroup if necessary. 2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
util.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: change void* into explict vm_struct* 2012-01-10 16:30:46 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
vmstat.c mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_LOCAL config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00