We already have retry logic in migrate_pages(). It does retry 10 times.
So if we keep this retrying code in __alloc_contig_migrate_range(), we
would try to migrate some unmigratable page in 50 times. There is just one
small difference in -ENOMEM case. migrate_pages() don't do retry
in this case, however, current __alloc_contig_migrate_range() does. But,
I think that this isn't problem, because in this case, we may fail again
with same reason.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5dba293..674ade7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6185,7 +6185,6 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct
compact_control *cc,
/* This function is based on compact_zone() from compaction.c. */
unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
unsigned long pfn = start;
- unsigned int tries = 0;
int ret = 0;
migrate_prep();
@@ -6204,10 +6203,6 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct
compact_control *cc,
ret = -EINTR;
break;
}
- tries = 0;
- } else if (++tries == 5) {
- ret = ret < 0 ? ret : -EBUSY;
- break;
}
nr_reclaimed = reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(cc->zone,
@@ -6216,6 +6211,10 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct
compact_control *cc,
ret = migrate_pages(&cc->migratepages, alloc_migrate_target,
0, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_CMA);
+ if (ret) {
+ ret = ret < 0 ? ret : -EBUSY;
+ break;
+ }
}
if (ret < 0) {
putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
--
1.7.9.5
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