Re: kswapd skips compaction if reclaim order drops to zero?

[Minchan Kim]

Hey Mel,

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:47:27AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:02:53PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > If the allocation order is not high, direct compaction does nothing.
> > Can we skip compaction here if order drops to zero?
> > 
> 
> If the allocation order is not high then
> 
> pgdat_needs_compaction == (order > 0) == false == no calling compact_pdatt
> 
> In the case where order is reset to 0 due to fragmentation then it does
> call compact_pgdat but it does no work due to the cc->order check in
> __compact_pgdat.
> 

I am looking at mmotm-2013-08-07-16-55 but couldn't find cc->order
check right before compact_zone in __comact_pgdat.
Could you pinpoint code piece?

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> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs
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