mm: compaction: use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:19:26 +0000 (17:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:13:08 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
commitb16d3d5a5219d01e9be5e586e5d50fbf1ca955ea
tree790422876526d780e1b66dd47ae522bfa3b73484
parenta77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3
mm: compaction: use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory

When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the
/proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always use
synchronous compaction.  This did not happen so this patch addresses it.

The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory, they
are willing for that process to stall.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c