mm/compaction: reverse the change that forbade sync migraton with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Wed, 25 May 2011 00:11:38 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 May 2011 15:39:10 +0000 (08:39 -0700)
It's uncertain this has been beneficial, so it's safer to undo it.  All
other compaction users would still go in synchronous mode if a first
attempt at async compaction failed.  Hopefully we don't need to force
special behavior for THP (which is the only __GFP_NO_KSWAPD user so far
and it's the easier to exercise and to be noticeable).  This also make
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD return to its original strict semantics specific to bypass
kswapd, as THP allocations have khugepaged for the async THP
allocations/compactions.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c

index 77773329aa72ab1c4d9e3e39a16fbc4a5e027784..83eaa2eb72f854fef63f16f4da255c347cb8a3c2 100644 (file)
@@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ rebalance:
                                        sync_migration);
        if (page)
                goto got_pg;
-       sync_migration = !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD);
+       sync_migration = true;
 
        /* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
        page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order,