Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: compaction: skip more fully scanned pageblock

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 5/25/23 14:53, Baolin Wang wrote:
> In fast_isolate_around(), it assumes the pageblock is fully scanned if
> cc->nr_freepages < cc->nr_migratepages after trying to isolate some free
> pages, and will set skip flag to avoid scanning in future. However this
> can miss setting the skip flag for a fully scanned pageblock (returned
> 'start_pfn' is equal to 'end_pfn') in the case where cc->nr_freepages
> is larger than cc->nr_migratepages.
> 
> So using the returned 'start_pfn' from isolate_freepages_block() and
> 'end_pfn' to decide if a pageblock is fully scanned makes more sense.
> It can also cover the case where cc->nr_freepages < cc->nr_migratepages,
> which means the 'start_pfn' is usually equal to 'end_pfn' except some
> uncommon fatal error occurs after non-strict mode isolation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 3737c6591bfb..1e5183f39ca9 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ fast_isolate_around(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long pfn)
>  	isolate_freepages_block(cc, &start_pfn, end_pfn, &cc->freepages, 1, false);
>  
>  	/* Skip this pageblock in the future as it's full or nearly full */
> -	if (cc->nr_freepages < cc->nr_migratepages)
> +	if (start_pfn == end_pfn)
>  		set_pageblock_skip(page);
>  
>  	return;