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Commit 2ef7dbb2 authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by Andrew Morton
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migrate_pages: try migrate in batch asynchronously firstly

When we have locked more than one folios, we cannot wait the lock or bit
(e.g., page lock, buffer head lock, writeback bit) synchronously. 
Otherwise deadlock may be triggered.  This make it hard to batch the
synchronous migration directly.

This patch re-enables batching synchronous migration via trying to migrate
in batch asynchronously firstly.  And any folios that are failed to be
migrated asynchronously will be migrated synchronously one by one.

Test shows that this can restore the TLB flushing batching performance for
synchronous migration effectively.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303030155.160983-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 5dfab109

 ("migrate_pages: batch _unmap and _move")
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Xu, Pengfei" <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent a21d2133
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