mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints

Pageblock hints are cleared when compaction restarts or kswapd makes
enough progress that it can sleep but it's over-eager in that the bit is
cleared for migration sources with no LRU pages and migration targets
with no free pages.  As pageblock skip hint flushes are relatively rare
and out-of-band with respect to kswapd, this patch makes a few more
expensive checks to see if it's appropriate to even clear the bit.
Every pageblock that is not cleared will avoid 512 pages being scanned
unnecessarily on x86-64.

The impact is variable with different workloads showing small
differences in latency, success rates and scan rates.  This is expected
as clearing the hints is not that common but doing a small amount of
work out-of-band to avoid a large amount of work in-band later is
generally a good thing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: YueHaibing <[email protected]>
[[email protected]: no stuck in __reset_isolation_pfn()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 842f9189537b..90c13cdeefb5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -480,6 +480,8 @@ struct zone {
 	unsigned long		compact_cached_free_pfn;
 	/* pfn where async and sync compaction migration scanner should start */
 	unsigned long		compact_cached_migrate_pfn[2];
+	unsigned long		compact_init_migrate_pfn;
+	unsigned long		compact_init_free_pfn;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION