From f9e35b3b41f47c4e17d8132edbcab305a6aaa4b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:08:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: compaction: abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous V2 Asynchronous compaction is used when promoting to huge pages. This is all very nice but if there are a number of processes in compacting memory, a large number of pages can be isolated. An "asynchronous" process can stall for long periods of time as a result with a user reporting that firefox can stall for 10s of seconds. This patch aborts asynchronous compaction if too many pages are isolated as it's better to fail a hugepage promotion than stall a process. [minchan.kim@gmail.com: return COMPACT_PARTIAL for abort] Reported-and-tested-by: Ury Stankevich Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed