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mm/compaction: fix wrong order check in compact_finished()
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:59:50 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:31:23 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
commit23933aed549b24b156eeae5ba9c94a145f482975
treeee6fb0df22c34688f31e435d26fe391e84baa03e
parent040f4b16ef414f6cb8926af0c02008e88afc1db7
mm/compaction: fix wrong order check in compact_finished()

commit 372549c2a3778fd3df445819811c944ad54609ca upstream.

What we want to check here is whether there is highorder freepage in buddy
list of other migratetype in order to steal it without fragmentation.
But, current code just checks cc->order which means allocation request
order.  So, this is wrong.

Without this fix, non-movable synchronous compaction below pageblock order
would not stopped until compaction is complete, because migratetype of
most pageblocks are movable and high order freepage made by compaction is
usually on movable type buddy list.

There is some report related to this bug. See below link.

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg81666.html

Although the issued system still has load spike comes from compaction,
this makes that system completely stable and responsive according to his
report.

stress-highalloc test in mmtests with non movable order 7 allocation
doesn't show any notable difference in allocation success rate, but, it
shows more compaction success rate.

Compaction success rate (Compaction success * 100 / Compaction stalls, %)
18.47 : 28.94

Fixes: 1fb3f8ca0e92 ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available")
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/compaction.c