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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-01-12 17:19:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-12 20:13:09 -0800
commitb969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 (patch)
treedc1c6e4375cfec7b15f13a37307eba8a9e07f40f /fs/nfs
parent7335084d446b83cbcb15da80497d03f0c1dc9e21 (diff)
downloadlinux-b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0.tar.gz
mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage
Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to
avoid blocking for long periods of time.  Due to reports of stalling,
there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely
impacted allocation success rates.  Part of the reason was that many dirty
pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check;

	if (PageDirty(page) && !sync &&
		mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page)
			rc = -EBUSY;

This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though
it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking.  This
patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter.  It is
the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would
block.

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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/internal.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/write.c4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 5ee92538b063..114398a15830 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ void nfs_commit_release_pages(struct nfs_write_data *data);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
-		struct page *, struct page *);
+		struct page *, struct page *, bool);
 #else
 #define nfs_migrate_page NULL
 #endif
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 0c3885255f97..889e98bc5a21 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ out_error:
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
-		struct page *page)
+		struct page *page, bool sync)
 {
 	/*
 	 * If PagePrivate is set, then the page is currently associated with
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *newpage,
 
 	nfs_fscache_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page);
+	return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync);
 }
 #endif