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SubjectRe: [patch] mm, compaction: abort free scanner if split fails
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:06:29 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:22:49 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If the memory compaction free scanner cannot successfully split a free
> > > page (only possible due to per-zone low watermark), terminate the free
> > > scanner rather than continuing to scan memory needlessly. If the
> > > watermark is insufficient for a free page of order <= cc->order, then
> > > terminate the scanner since all future splits will also likely fail.
> > >
> > > This prevents the compaction freeing scanner from scanning all memory on
> > > very large zones (very noticeable for zones > 128GB, for instance) when
> > > all splits will likely fail while holding zone->lock.
> > >
> >
> > This collides pretty heavily with Joonsoo's "mm/compaction: split
> > freepages without holding the zone lock".
> >
>
> Sorry if it wasn't clear, but I was proposing this patch for 4.7
> inclusion and Vlastimil agreed we should ask for that. Joonsoo said he
> was prepared to rebase on top of that. Is
> mm-compaction-split-freepages-without-holding-the-zone-lock.patch and
> friends going into 4.7 or are we deferring this fix until 4.8?

I have this patch lined up for 4.7 so I was rebasing Joonsoo's patches
on top.

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