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Commit 16867664 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm,page_alloc,cma: conditionally prefer cma pageblocks for movable allocations

Currently a cma area is barely used by the page allocator because it's
used only as a fallback from movable, however kswapd tries hard to make
sure that the fallback path isn't used.

This results in a system evicting memory and pushing data into swap, while
lots of CMA memory is still available.  This happens despite the fact that
alloc_contig_range is perfectly capable of moving any movable allocations
out of the way of an allocation.

To effectively use the cma area let's alter the rules: if the zone has
more free cma pages than the half of total free pages in the zone, use cma
pageblocks first and fallback to movable blocks in the case of failure.

[guro@fb.com: ifdef the cma-specific code]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311225832.GA178154@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com


Co-developed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306150102.3e77354b@imladris.surriel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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