On Wed, 7 May 2014 03:36:46 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
wrote:
> We're going to want to manipulate the migration mode for compaction in the
> page
> allocator, and currently compact_control's sync field is only a bool.
>
> Currently, we only do MIGRATE_ASYNC or MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction
> depending
> on the value of this bool. Convert the bool to enum migrate_mode and pass
> the
> migration mode in directly. Later, we'll want to avoid MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
> for
> thp allocations in the pagefault patch to avoid unnecessary latency.
>
> This also alters compaction triggered from sysfs, either for the entire
> system
> or for a node, to force MIGRATE_SYNC.
mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_contig_range':
mm/page_alloc.c:6255: error: unknown field 'sync' specified in initializer
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-compaction-embed-migration-mode-in-compact_control-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6252,7 +6252,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long sta
.nr_migratepages = 0,
.order = -1,
.zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start)),
- .sync = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
+ .mode = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
.ignore_skip_hint = true,
};
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
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