[PATCH 56 of 66] transhuge isolate_migratepages()

Andrea Arcangeli
2010-11-03T15:31:23Z

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

It's not worth migrating transparent hugepages during compaction. Those
hugepages don't create fragmentation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -272,10 +272,25 @@ static unsigned long isolate_migratepage
if (PageBuddy(page))
continue;

+ if (!PageLRU(page))
+ continue;
+
+ /*
+ * PageLRU is set, and lru_lock excludes isolation,
+ * splitting and collapsing (collapsing has already
+ * happened if PageLRU is set).
+ */
+ if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
+ low_pfn += (1 << compound_order(page)) - 1;
+ continue;
+ }
+
/* Try isolate the page */
if (__isolate_lru_page(page, ISOLATE_BOTH, 0) != 0)
continue;

+ VM_BUG_ON(PageTransCompound(page));
+
/* Successfully isolated */
del_page_from_lru_list(zone, page, page_lru(page));
list_add(&page->lru, migratelist);