mm/compaction.c: periodically schedule when freeing pages
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:45:03 +0000 (13:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:31:01 +0000 (14:31 -0700)
commitf6ea3adb70b20ae36277a1b0eaaf4da9f6479a28
tree9d21f9dfff81d06902db1bdd18d0bd575c06065c
parent72023656961b8c81a168a7a6762d589339d0d7ec
mm/compaction.c: periodically schedule when freeing pages

We've been getting warnings about an excessive amount of time spent
allocating pages for migration during memory compaction without
scheduling.  isolate_freepages_block() already periodically checks for
contended locks or the need to schedule, but isolate_freepages() never
does.

When a zone is massively long and no suitable targets can be found, this
iteration can be quite expensive without ever doing cond_resched().

Check periodically for the need to reschedule while the compaction free
scanner iterates.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c