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    mm: compaction: Restart compaction from near where it left off · c89511ab
    Mel Gorman 提交于
    This is almost entirely based on Rik's previous patches and discussions
    with him about how this might be implemented.
    
    Order > 0 compaction stops when enough free pages of the correct page
    order have been coalesced.  When doing subsequent higher order
    allocations, it is possible for compaction to be invoked many times.
    
    However, the compaction code always starts out looking for things to
    compact at the start of the zone, and for free pages to compact things to
    at the end of the zone.
    
    This can cause quadratic behaviour, with isolate_freepages starting at the
    end of the zone each time, even though previous invocations of the
    compaction code already filled up all free memory on that end of the zone.
     This can cause isolate_freepages to take enormous amounts of CPU with
    certain workloads on larger memory systems.
    
    This patch caches where the migration and free scanner should start from
    on subsequent compaction invocations using the pageblock-skip information.
     When compaction starts it begins from the cached restart points and will
    update the cached restart points until a page is isolated or a pageblock
    is skipped that would have been scanned by synchronous compaction.
    Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
    Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
    Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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