Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:30:42 +0100 (IST) Mel Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * It's a race if compaction frees a suitable page but
>> + * someone else allocates it
>> + */
>> + count_vm_event(COMPACTRACE);
>> + }
>
> Could perhaps cause arbitrarily long starvation.
More likely it will just fail allocations where it could have succeeded.
I knew the situation would occur so I thought I would count how often it
happens before doing.
> A fix would be to free
> the synchronously-compacted higher-order page into somewhere which is
> private to this task (a new field in task_struct would be one such place).
There used to be such fields and a process flag PF_FREE_PAGES for a
similar purpose. I'll look into reintroducing it. Thanks
--
Mel Gorman
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