mm, compaction: abstract compaction feedback to helpers
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 23:56:56 +0000 (16:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:58:30 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
commitcab1802b5f0dddea30547a7451fda8c7e4c593f0
treec769cdfe687df9d76ae0b429c1f1a6c3fd171dd2
parentc5d01d0d18e2ab7a21f0371b00e4d1a06f79cdf5
mm, compaction: abstract compaction feedback to helpers

Compaction can provide a wild variation of feedback to the caller.  Many
of them are implementation specific and the caller of the compaction
(especially the page allocator) shouldn't be bound to specifics of the
current implementation.

This patch abstracts the feedback into three basic types:
- compaction_made_progress - compaction was active and made some
  progress.
- compaction_failed - compaction failed and further attempts to
  invoke it would most probably fail and therefore it is not
  worth retrying
- compaction_withdrawn - compaction wasn't invoked for an
          implementation specific reasons. In the current implementation
          it means that the compaction was deferred, contended or the
          page scanners met too early without any progress. Retrying is
          still worthwhile.

[vbabka@suse.cz: do not change thp back off behavior]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment, per Hillf]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/compaction.h