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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2017-05-08 15:54:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-05-08 17:15:09 -0700 |
| commit | 228d7e33903040a0b9dd9a5ee9b3a49c538c0613 (patch) | |
| tree | 17eb03bb7f86959fba7506b304e43b3c53ea56c8 /mm | |
| parent | f25ba6dccc3bfe7e1524f4498a171be038507c45 (diff) | |
mm, compaction: remove redundant watermark check in compact_finished()
When detecting whether compaction has succeeded in forming a high-order
page, __compact_finished() employs a watermark check, followed by an own
search for a suitable page in the freelists. This is not ideal for two
reasons:
- The watermark check also searches high-order freelists, but has a
less strict criteria wrt fallback. It's therefore redundant and waste
of cycles. This was different in the past when high-order watermark
check attempted to apply reserves to high-order pages.
- The watermark check might actually fail due to lack of order-0 pages.
Compaction can't help with that, so there's no point in continuing
because of that. It's possible that high-order page still exists and
it terminates.
This patch therefore removes the watermark check. This should save some
cycles and terminate compaction sooner in some cases.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131545.28577-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 09c5282ebdd2..01b1fb8f6f47 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1280,7 +1280,6 @@ static enum compact_result __compact_finished(struct zone *zone, struct compact_ const int migratetype) { unsigned int order; - unsigned long watermark; if (cc->contended || fatal_signal_pending(current)) return COMPACT_CONTENDED; @@ -1308,13 +1307,6 @@ static enum compact_result __compact_finished(struct zone *zone, struct compact_ if (is_via_compact_memory(cc->order)) return COMPACT_CONTINUE; - /* Compaction run is not finished if the watermark is not met */ - watermark = zone->watermark[cc->alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; - - if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order, watermark, cc->classzone_idx, - cc->alloc_flags)) - return COMPACT_CONTINUE; - /* Direct compactor: Is a suitable page free? */ for (order = cc->order; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) { struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order]; |