mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again

Commit 39deaf85 ("mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware")
noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and that
is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list.  This
had to be partially reverted because some dirty pages can be migrated by
compaction without blocking.

This patch updates "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page" by skipping
over pages that migration has no possibility of migrating to minimise LRU
disruption.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index d31e64becb38..fb291585e1bf 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
 			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (!cc->sync)
+			mode |= ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE;
+
 		/* Try isolate the page */
 		if (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode, 0) != 0)
 			continue;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index cb68c53db4ec..efbcab1c8f54 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1075,8 +1075,39 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode, int file)
 
 	ret = -EBUSY;
 
-	if ((mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN) && (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page)))
-		return ret;
+	/*
+	 * To minimise LRU disruption, the caller can indicate that it only
+	 * wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
+	 * blocking - clean pages for the most part.
+	 *
+	 * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
+	 * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
+	 *
+	 * ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
+	 * that it is possible to migrate without blocking
+	 */
+	if (mode & (ISOLATE_CLEAN|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE)) {
+		/* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
+		if (PageWriteback(page))
+			return ret;
+
+		if (PageDirty(page)) {
+			struct address_space *mapping;
+
+			/* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
+			if (mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN)
+				return ret;
+
+			/*
+			 * Only pages without mappings or that have a
+			 * ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
+			 * without blocking
+			 */
+			mapping = page_mapping(page);
+			if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
+				return ret;
+		}
+	}
 
 	if ((mode & ISOLATE_UNMAPPED) && page_mapped(page))
 		return ret;