From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] Revert "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware"
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:57:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121125717.GE19415@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321732460-14155-7-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com>
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:54:18PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> This reverts commit
> 39deaf8585152f1a35c1676d3d7dc6ae0fb65967.
>
> PageDirty is non blocking for compaction (unlike for
> mm/vmscan.c:may_writepage) so async compaction should include it.
>
It blocks if fallback_migrate_page() is used which happens if the
underlying filesystem does not support ->migratepage.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-18 16:58 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reduce compaction-related stalls and improve asynchronous migration of dirty pages v3 Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 17:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 17:16 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-18 16:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 17:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 21:46 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-18 16:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: Do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-18 16:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: compaction: Determine if dirty pages can be migreated without blocking within ->migratepage Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 21:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 11:17 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-21 22:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-22 0:55 ` [PATCH] mm: compaction: make buffer cache __GFP_MOVABLE Rik van Riel
2011-11-22 12:59 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: compaction: Determine if dirty pages can be migreated without blocking within ->migratepage Mel Gorman
2011-11-24 1:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-24 12:21 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-26 6:51 ` Andy Isaacson
2011-11-27 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-19 8:59 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-19 9:48 ` Nai Xia
2011-11-21 11:19 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Mel Gorman
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reduce compaction-related stalls Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: check if we isolated a compound page during lumpy scan Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 11:51 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: compaction: defer compaction only with sync_migration Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 12:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: compaction: avoid overwork in migrate sync mode Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-22 9:51 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] Revert "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware" Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 12:57 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 7/8] Revert "vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed" Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 13:09 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-21 15:37 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-19 19:54 ` [PATCH 8/8] Revert "vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations" Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-21 21:57 ` Rik van Riel
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