From a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:43 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/btrfs') diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c index 1375494c8cb6..d8525662ca7a 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ static int btree_submit_bio_hook(struct inode *inode, int rw, struct bio *bio, #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION static int btree_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping, - struct page *newpage, struct page *page, bool sync) + struct page *newpage, struct page *page, + enum migrate_mode mode) { /* * we can't safely write a btree page from here, @@ -887,7 +888,7 @@ static int btree_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping, if (page_has_private(page) && !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL)) return -EAGAIN; - return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, sync); + return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode); } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3