mm, compaction: distinguish between full and partial COMPACT_COMPLETE
COMPACT_COMPLETE now means that compaction and free scanner met. This
is not very useful information if somebody just wants to use this
feedback and make any decisions based on that. The current caller might
be a poor guy who just happened to scan tiny portion of the zone and
that could be the reason no suitable pages were compacted. Make sure we
distinguish the full and partial zone walks.
Consumers should treat COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED as a potential success
and be optimistic in retrying.
The existing users of COMPACT_COMPLETE are conservatively changed to use
COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED as well but some of them should be probably
reconsidered and only defer the compaction only for COMPACT_COMPLETE
with the new semantic.
This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index 11f2287..9b37f9d 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -21,7 +21,15 @@
* pages
*/
COMPACT_PARTIAL,
- /* The full zone was compacted */
+ /*
+ * direct compaction has scanned part of the zone but wasn't successfull
+ * to compact suitable pages.
+ */
+ COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED,
+ /*
+ * The full zone was compacted scanned but wasn't successfull to compact
+ * suitable pages.
+ */
COMPACT_COMPLETE,
/* For more detailed tracepoint output */
COMPACT_NO_SUITABLE_PAGE,