mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction
authorDavid Rientjes <[email protected]>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:47:23 +0000 (14:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:20:58 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
commit91ca9186484809c57303b33778d841cc28f696ed
tree414e6c4237119e5b5495a0b77903c1fa055fe2eb
parent3115cd9145511c9159a19b118836dd5115d0a781
mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking compaction

The cached pageblock hint should be ignored when triggering compaction
through /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory so all eligible memory is isolated.
Manually invoking compaction is known to be expensive, there's no need
to skip pageblocks based on heuristics (mainly for debugging).

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/compaction.c