mm, compaction: use correct watermark when checking compaction success
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Fri, 7 Oct 2016 23:57:50 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:46:27 +0000 (18:46 -0700)
commitf2b8228c5f99a92bc07efd36f8dc840e0705a266
tree8c419fac135a6934b8e5a48158f633477e2edd07
parenta8e025e55b35f7eaf6c6c011de1f98d47ddf0843
mm, compaction: use correct watermark when checking compaction success

The __compact_finished() function uses low watermark in a check that has
to pass if the direct compaction is to finish and allocation should
succeed.  This is too pessimistic, as the allocation will typically use
min watermark.  It may happen that during compaction, we drop below the
low watermark (due to parallel activity), but still form the target
high-order page.  By checking against low watermark, we might needlessly
continue compaction.

Similarly, __compaction_suitable() uses low watermark in a check whether
allocation can succeed without compaction.  Again, this is unnecessarily
pessimistic.

After this patch, these check will use direct compactor's alloc_flags to
determine the watermark, which is effectively the min watermark.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810091226.6709-8-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c