From a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:43 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/memory_hotplug.c') diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 2168489c0bc9..6629fafd6ce4 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn) } /* this function returns # of failed pages */ ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0, - true, true); + true, MIGRATE_SYNC); if (ret) putback_lru_pages(&source); } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2