mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability
Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations
(stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7. In the scenario (parallel kernel build
and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as Unmovable and
compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages. Joonsoo Kim
pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are not movable to
prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations to fallback to
other pageblocks. Such heuristic makes sense to help prevent long-term
fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more urgent problem. As
a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only for the ultimate
compaction priority.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Reported-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <Ralf-Peter.Rohbeck@quantum.com>
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>