mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:34:42 +0000 (19:34 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:51:56 +0000 (11:51 +0200)
commitc4199ba1a1d8802a69ed9f65026bc8781a72c708
tree2c4fdb50edee2411bf275644fe0543c13f7f21ca
parentd36e7004412992303202433b25bdbb1e7c929f57
mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction

commit 91ca9186484809c57303b33778d841cc28f696ed upstream.

The cached pageblock hint should be ignored when triggering compaction
through /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory so all eligible memory is isolated.
Manually invoking compaction is known to be expensive, there's no need
to skip pageblocks based on heuristics (mainly for debugging).

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
mm/compaction.c