compaction: checks correct fragmentation index fragmentation_index() returns -1000 when the allocation might succeed This doesn't match the comment and code in compaction_suitable(). I thought compaction_suitable should return COMPACT_PARTIAL in -1000 case, because in this case allocation could succeed depending on watermarks. The impact of this is that compaction starts and compact_finished() is called which rechecks the watermarks and the free lists. It should have the same result in that compaction should not start but is more expensive. Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 94bdbe1..cf7086c 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -480,7 +480,8 @@ * fragmentation index determines if allocation failures are due to * low memory or external fragmentation * - * index of -1 implies allocations might succeed dependingon watermarks + * index of -1000 implies allocations might succeed depending on + * watermarks * index towards 0 implies failure is due to lack of memory * index towards 1000 implies failure is due to fragmentation * @@ -490,7 +491,8 @@ if (fragindex >= 0 && fragindex <= sysctl_extfrag_threshold) return COMPACT_SKIPPED; - if (fragindex == -1 && zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, watermark, 0, 0)) + if (fragindex == -1000 && zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, watermark, + 0, 0)) return COMPACT_PARTIAL; return COMPACT_CONTINUE;