Re: question: should_compact_retry limit

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 6/5/19 6:05 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 6/5/19 12:58 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 6/5/19 1:30 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Hmm I guess we didn't expect compaction_withdrawn() to be so
>> consistently returned. Do you know what value of compact_result is there
>> in your test?
> 
> Added some instrumentation to record values and ran test,
> 
> 557904 Total
> 
> 549186 COMPACT_DEFERRED

Retrying mindlessly with compaction deferred sounds definitely wrong,
I'll try to look at it. Thanks.

>   8718 COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED
> 
> Do note that this is not my biggest problem with these allocations.  That is
> should_continue_reclaim returning true more often that in should.  Still
> trying to get more info on that.  This was just something curious I also
> discovered.
>