Subject: transhuge isolate_migratepages() From: Andrea Arcangeli It's not worth migrating transparent hugepages during compaction. Those hugepages don't create fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli --- diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -271,10 +271,25 @@ static unsigned long isolate_migratepage if (PageBuddy(page)) continue; + if (!PageLRU(page)) + continue; + + /* + * PageLRU is set, and lru_lock excludes isolation, + * splitting and collapsing (collapsing has already + * happened if PageLRU is set). + */ + if (PageTransHuge(page)) { + low_pfn += (1 << compound_order(page)) - 1; + continue; + } + /* Try isolate the page */ if (__isolate_lru_page(page, ISOLATE_BOTH, 0) != 0) continue; + VM_BUG_ON(PageTransCompound(page)); + /* Successfully isolated */ del_page_from_lru_list(zone, page, page_lru(page)); list_add(&page->lru, migratelist);