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Commit 2ab44f43 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: vmscan: decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress



In the past, kswapd makes a decision on whether to compact memory after
the pgdat was considered balanced.  This more or less worked but it is
late to make such a decision and does not fit well now that kswapd makes
a decision whether to exit the zone scanning loop depending on reclaim
progress.

This patch will compact a pgdat if at least the requested number of
pages were reclaimed from unbalanced zones for a given priority.  If any
zone is currently balanced, kswapd will not call compaction as it is
expected the necessary pages are already available.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarZlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b8e83b94
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