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    mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction · 4df9e193
    Mel Gorman authored
    commit a6bc32b8 upstream.
    
    Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that
    	reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled.
    	These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data
    	to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot.
    
    This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
    mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage.  Async compaction
    maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
    For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
    used.
    
    This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
    particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
    large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
    ->writepages.
    
    [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
    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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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