From 228d7e33903040a0b9dd9a5ee9b3a49c538c0613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:54:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 09c5282ebdd28..01b1fb8f6f477 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]; -- 2.39.2