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.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 09c5282..01b1fb8 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -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];