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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:58:40PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Commit [39deaf85: mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware]
> noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and
> that is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list.
>
> What was missed during review is that asynchronous migration moves
> dirty pages if their ->migratepage callback is migrate_page() because
> these can be moved without blocking. This potentially impacted
> hugepage allocation success rates by a factor depending on how many
> dirty pages are in the system.
>
> This patch partially reverts 39deaf85 to allow migration to isolate
> dirty pages again. This increases how much compaction disrupts the
> LRU but that is addressed later in the series.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> ---
> mm/compaction.c | 3 ---
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 899d956..237560e 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -349,9 +349,6 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
> continue;
> }
>
> - if (!cc->sync)
> - mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
> -
> /* Try isolate the page */
> if (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode, 0) != 0)
> continue;

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>


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