mm: compaction: limit the suitable target page order to be less than cc->order
It can not improve the fragmentation if we isolate the target free pages exceeding cc->order, especially when the cc->order is less than pageblock_order. For example, suppose the pageblock_order is MAX_ORDER (size is 4M) and cc->order is 2M THP size, we should not isolate other 2M free pages to be the migration target, which can not improve the fragmentation. Moreover this is also applicable for large folio compaction. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/afcd9377351c259df7a25a388a4a0d5862b986f4.1705928395.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.comSigned-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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