Commit 228d7e33 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: remove redundant watermark check in compact_finished()

When detecting whether compaction has succeeded in forming a high-order
page, __compact_finished() employs a watermark check, followed by an own
search for a suitable page in the freelists.  This is not ideal for two
reasons:

 - The watermark check also searches high-order freelists, but has a
   less strict criteria wrt fallback. It's therefore redundant and waste
   of cycles. This was different in the past when high-order watermark
   check attempted to apply reserves to high-order pages.

 - The watermark check might actually fail due to lack of order-0 pages.
   Compaction can't help with that, so there's no point in continuing
   because of that. It's possible that high-order page still exists and
   it terminates.

This patch therefore removes the watermark check.  This should save some
cycles and terminate compaction sooner in some cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307131545.28577-3-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f25ba6dc
......@@ -1280,7 +1280,6 @@ static enum compact_result __compact_finished(struct zone *zone, struct compact_
const int migratetype)
{
unsigned int order;
unsigned long watermark;
if (cc->contended || fatal_signal_pending(current))
return COMPACT_CONTENDED;
......@@ -1308,13 +1307,6 @@ static enum compact_result __compact_finished(struct zone *zone, struct compact_
if (is_via_compact_memory(cc->order))
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
/* Compaction run is not finished if the watermark is not met */
watermark = zone->watermark[cc->alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order, watermark, cc->classzone_idx,
cc->alloc_flags))
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
/* Direct compactor: Is a suitable page free? */
for (order = cc->order; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order];
......
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