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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 04/10] compaction: make isolate_lru_page with filter aware
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:38:17PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> In async mode, compaction doesn't migrate dirty or writeback pages.
> So, it's meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to lru list.
>
> Of course, when we isolate the page in compaction, the page might
> be dirty or writeback but when we try to migrate the page, the page
> would be not dirty, writeback. So it could be migrated. But it's
> very unlikely as isolate and migration cycle is much faster than
> writeout.
>
> So, this patch helps cpu and prevent unnecessary LRU churning.
>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/compaction.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index f0d75e9..8079346 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
> unsigned long last_pageblock_nr = 0, pageblock_nr;
> unsigned long nr_scanned = 0, nr_isolated = 0;
> struct list_head *migratelist = &cc->migratepages;
> + enum ISOLATE_MODE mode = ISOLATE_ACTIVE|ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
>
> /* Do not scan outside zone boundaries */
> low_pfn = max(cc->migrate_pfn, zone->zone_start_pfn);
> @@ -326,9 +327,11 @@ static unsigned long isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
> continue;
> }
>
> + if (!cc->sync)
> + mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
> +
> /* Try isolate the page */
> - if (__isolate_lru_page(page,
> - ISOLATE_ACTIVE|ISOLATE_INACTIVE, 0) != 0)
> + if (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode, 0) != 0)
> continue;
>
> VM_BUG_ON(PageTransCompound(page));

Looks good for compaction! This change makes a lot of sense.

However I would expand the meaning of this patch. Introduce
ISOLATE_CLEAN in this patch and update both compaction and
__zone_reclaim. You might encounter some mess mapping RECLAIM_WRITE to
ISOLATE_CLEAN but nothing unmanageable.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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