mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compac...
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:45:57 +0000 (15:45 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:32:34 +0000 (17:32 -0800)
commit77f1fe6b08b13a87391549c8a820ddc817b6f50e
tree720865bd0994da3787b6f37d33b2ee4c26a2de6c
parent3e7d344970673c5334cf7b5bb27c8c0942b06126
mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path

Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails.
Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the
caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not
going to have a significantly better success rate.

This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to
indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not.
For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called
asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is
called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/compaction.h
include/linux/migrate.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/memory-failure.c
mm/memory_hotplug.c
mm/mempolicy.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmscan.c