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author | Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> | 2016-10-07 16:57:44 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -0700 |
commit | 7ceb009a22517297ae0e32863eb86ec766782263 (patch) | |
tree | 1c4e63fe4ca2850dde4fb1427109be5a5d7c5ffd /lib/cpu-notifier-error-inject.c | |
parent | cf378319d335663b6722e74db0211b8af55049d5 (diff) |
mm, compaction: don't recheck watermarks after COMPACT_SUCCESS
Joonsoo has reminded me that in a later patch changing watermark checks
throughout compaction I forgot to update checks in
try_to_compact_pages() and compactd_do_work(). Closer inspection
however shows that they are redundant now in the success case, because
compact_zone() now reliably reports this with COMPACT_SUCCESS. So
effectively the checks just repeat (a subset) of checks that have just
passed. So instead of checking watermarks again, just test the return
value.
Note it's also possible that compaction would declare failure e.g.
because its find_suitable_fallback() is more strict than simple
watermark check, and then the watermark check we are removing would then
still succeed. After this patch this is not possible and it's arguably
better, because for long-term fragmentation avoidance we should rather
try a different zone than allocate with the unsuitable fallback. If
compaction of all zones fail and the allocation is important enough, it
will retry and succeed anyway.
Also remove the stray "bool success" variable from kcompactd_do_work().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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