Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm, compaction: more reliably increase direct compaction priority

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 06-09-16 15:52:56, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
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> @@ -3204,6 +3199,15 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
>  	if (compaction_retries <= max_retries)
>  		return true;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Make sure there is at least one attempt at the highest priority
> +	 * if we exhausted all retries at the lower priorities
> +	 */
> +check_priority:
> +	if (*compact_priority > MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY) {
> +		(*compact_priority)--;
> +		return true;

Don't we want to reset compaction_retries here? Otherwise we can consume
all retries on the lower priorities.

Other than that it looks good to me. With that you can add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> +	}
>  	return false;
>  }
>  #else
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs