From 2ab44f434586b8ccb11f781b4c2730492e6628f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:01:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress In the past, kswapd makes a decision on whether to compact memory after the pgdat was considered balanced. This more or less worked but it is late to make such a decision and does not fit well now that kswapd makes a decision whether to exit the zone scanning loop depending on reclaim progress. This patch will compact a pgdat if at least the requested number of pages were reclaimed from unbalanced zones for a given priority. If any zone is currently balanced, kswapd will not call compaction as it is expected the necessary pages are already available. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic Cc: dormando Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed