mm, compaction: introduce direct compaction priority

In the context of direct compaction, for some types of allocations we
would like the compaction to either succeed or definitely fail while
trying as hard as possible.  Current async/sync_light migration mode is
insufficient, as there are heuristics such as caching scanner positions,
marking pageblocks as unsuitable or deferring compaction for a zone.  At
least the final compaction attempt should be able to override these
heuristics.

To communicate how hard compaction should try, we replace migration mode
with a new enum compact_priority and change the relevant function
signatures.  In compact_zone_order() where struct compact_control is
constructed, the priority is mapped to suitable control flags.  This
patch itself has no functional change, as the current priority levels
are mapped back to the same migration modes as before.  Expanding them
will be done next.

Note that !CONFIG_COMPACTION variant of try_to_compact_pages() is
removed, as the only caller exists under CONFIG_COMPACTION.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-8-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index 1a02dab16646..0980a6ce4436 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_COMPACTION_H
 #define _LINUX_COMPACTION_H
 
+/*
+ * Determines how hard direct compaction should try to succeed.
+ * Lower value means higher priority, analogically to reclaim priority.
+ */
+enum compact_priority {
+	COMPACT_PRIO_SYNC_LIGHT,
+	MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY = COMPACT_PRIO_SYNC_LIGHT,
+	DEF_COMPACT_PRIORITY = COMPACT_PRIO_SYNC_LIGHT,
+	COMPACT_PRIO_ASYNC,
+	INIT_COMPACT_PRIORITY = COMPACT_PRIO_ASYNC
+};
+
 /* Return values for compact_zone() and try_to_compact_pages() */
 /* When adding new states, please adjust include/trace/events/compaction.h */
 enum compact_result {
@@ -66,7 +78,7 @@ extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
 extern enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask,
 			unsigned int order,
 		unsigned int alloc_flags, const struct alloc_context *ac,
-		enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended);
+		enum compact_priority prio, int *contended);
 extern void compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order);
 extern void reset_isolation_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat);
 extern enum compact_result compaction_suitable(struct zone *zone, int order,
@@ -151,14 +163,6 @@ extern void kcompactd_stop(int nid);
 extern void wakeup_kcompactd(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx);
 
 #else
-static inline enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask,
-			unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
-			const struct alloc_context *ac,
-			enum migrate_mode mode, int *contended)
-{
-	return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
-}
-
 static inline void compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
 {
 }