mm, compaction: defer only on COMPACT_COMPLETE

Deferred compaction is employed to avoid compacting zone where sync direct
compaction has recently failed.  As such, it makes sense to only defer
when a full zone was scanned, which is when compact_zone returns with
COMPACT_COMPLETE.  It's less useful to defer when compact_zone returns
with apparent success (COMPACT_PARTIAL), followed by a watermark check
failure, which can happen due to parallel allocation activity.  It also
does not make much sense to defer compaction which was completely skipped
(COMPACT_SKIP) for being unsuitable in the first place.

This patch therefore makes deferred compaction trigger only when
COMPACT_COMPLETE is returned from compact_zone().  Results of
stress-highalloc becnmark show the difference is within measurement error,
so the issue is rather cosmetic.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 75f4c1206d00501094fdca3905407f2007cbea6d..eaf0a925ff26379ce360c9b4bb9e54526cf205cf 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
                        goto break_loop;
                }
 
-               if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC) {
+               if (mode != MIGRATE_ASYNC && status == COMPACT_COMPLETE) {
                        /*
                         * We think that allocation won't succeed in this zone
                         * so we defer compaction there. If it ends up