From a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:43 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b92b73d0b2b9..e694bd4434a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ enum positive_aop_returns { struct page; struct address_space; struct writeback_control; +enum migrate_mode; struct iov_iter { const struct iovec *iov; @@ -614,7 +615,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { * is false, it must not block. */ int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, unsigned long); @@ -2540,7 +2541,8 @@ extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64); #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *, - struct page *, struct page *, bool); + struct page *, struct page *, + enum migrate_mode); #else #define buffer_migrate_page NULL #endif -- cgit v1.2.3