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David Rientjes 5ecd9d403a mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too
many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed.

This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available.  For high-
order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for
background compaction.  If the zone is not below its watermarks or
reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to
reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up.

When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be
woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim.  This allows high-order
allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even
when the zone has an abundance of free memory.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
arch mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
block Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-04-04 17:11:08 -07:00
Documentation mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
drivers zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size() 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
include mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
init Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux 2018-04-02 21:22:12 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
lib lib: fix stall in __bitmap_parselist() 2018-04-05 21:36:21 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
net net/9p/client.c: fix potential refcnt problem of trans module 2018-04-05 21:36:23 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-04-03 14:04:18 -07:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: show the code context 2018-04-05 21:36:21 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
sound Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-04-03 14:04:18 -07:00
tools Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* 2018-03-26 02:01:23 +09:00
.mailmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/topic/samsung' into spi-next 2018-04-02 15:56:32 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.