mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to...
authorZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 06:51:43 +0000 (22:51 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:26:03 +0000 (11:26 -0800)
commitd20bdd571ee5c9966191568527ecdb1bd4b52368
treed34960496812c3fee82d7fd56136ebe5638ac5a6
parent38935861d85a4d9a353d1dd5a156c97700e2765d
mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate

In isolate_migratepages_block, if we have too many isolated pages and
nr_migratepages is not zero, we should try to migrate what we have
without wasting time on isolating.

In theory it's possible that multiple parallel compactions will cause
too_many_isolated() to become true even if each has isolated less than
COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX, and loop forever in the while loop.  Bailing
immediately prevents that.

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog addition]

Fixes: 1da2f328fa64 (“mm,thp,compaction,cma: allow THP migration for CMA allocations”)
Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201030183809.3616803-2-zi.yan@sent.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c