Re: Early test: hangs in mm/compact.c w. Linus's 12d7aacab56e9ef185c

From: Hillf Danton
Date: Sun Nov 09 2014 - 22:29:02 EST


> >
> > I guess this one would mitigate against Vlastmil's migration scanner issue,
> > wouldn't it?
>
Nope, I wanted to see if free pages are low enough.

> Please no, that's a wrong fix. The purpose of compaction is to make the
> high-order watermark meet, not give up.
>
Yupe, have to spin.

--- a/mm/compaction.c Sun Nov 9 12:02:59 2014
+++ b/mm/compaction.c Mon Nov 10 11:12:07 2014
@@ -1074,6 +1074,8 @@ static int compact_finished(struct zone
watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone);
watermark += (1 << cc->order);

+ if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0))
+ return COMPACT_SKIPPED;
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order, watermark, 0, 0))
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;

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