[PATCH 2/6] mm: numa: Take THP into account when migrating pages for NUMA balancing

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 12:12:42 EST


Wanpeng Li pointed out that numamigrate_isolate_page() assumes that only one
base page is being migrated when in fact it can also be checking THP. The
consequences are that a migration will be attempted when a target node
is nearly full and fail later. It's unlikely to be user-visible but it
should be fixed. While we are there, migrate_balanced_pgdat() should treat
nr_migrate_pages as an unsigned long as it is treated as a watermark.

Suggested-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index c387786..73e432d 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ int migrate_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm, const nodemask_t *to,
* pages. Currently it only checks the watermarks which crude
*/
static bool migrate_balanced_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
- int nr_migrate_pages)
+ unsigned long nr_migrate_pages)
{
int z;
for (z = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; z >= 0; z--) {
@@ -1557,8 +1557,10 @@ int numamigrate_isolate_page(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct page *page)
{
int ret = 0;

+ VM_BUG_ON(compound_order(page) && !PageTransHuge(page));
+
/* Avoid migrating to a node that is nearly full */
- if (migrate_balanced_pgdat(pgdat, 1)) {
+ if (migrate_balanced_pgdat(pgdat, 1UL << compound_order(page))) {
int page_lru;

if (isolate_lru_page(page)) {
--
1.7.9.2

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