Re: [PATCH] mm,compaction: Do not schedule work on other CPUs forcompaction

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu May 06 2010 - 11:35:11 EST


On 05/06/2010 11:08 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
Migration normally requires a call to migrate_prep() as a preparation
step. This schedules work on all CPUs for pagevecs to be drained. This
makes sense for move_pages and memory hot-remove but is unnecessary
for memory compaction.

To avoid queueing work on multiple CPUs, this patch introduces
migrate_prep_local() which drains just local pagevecs.

This patch can be either merged with mmcompaction-memory-compaction-core.patch
or placed immediately after it to clarify why migrate_prep_local() was
introduced.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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