On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:22:52PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> Async compaction terminates prematurely when need_resched(), see
> compact_checklock_irqsave().  This can never trigger, however, if the 
> cond_resched() in isolate_migratepages_range() always takes care of the 
> scheduling.
> 
> If the cond_resched() actually triggers, then terminate this pageblock scan 
> for 
> async compaction as well.

Hello,

I think that same logic would be helpful to cond_resched() in
isolatate_freepages(). And, isolate_freepages() doesn't have exit logic
when it find zone_lock contention. I think that fixing it is also
helpful.

Thanks.

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