From aff622495c9a0b56148192e53bdec539f5e147f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:33:52 -0700 Subject: vmscan: only defer compaction for failed order and higher Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can lead to memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory zone. Even if we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, eg. for jumbo frames networking. The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest order at which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction for orders at which compaction is failing. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 650ba2fb3301..dff711509661 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ struct zone { */ unsigned int compact_considered; unsigned int compact_defer_shift; + int compact_order_failed; #endif ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_) -- cgit v1.2.2