From c4199ba1a1d8802a69ed9f65026bc8781a72c708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:34:42 +0100
Subject: mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manually invoking
 compaction

commit 91ca9186484809c57303b33778d841cc28f696ed upstream.

The cached pageblock hint should be ignored when triggering compaction
through /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory so all eligible memory is isolated.
Manually invoking compaction is known to be expensive, there's no need
to skip pageblocks based on heuristics (mainly for debugging).

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'mm/compaction.c')

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 45308186a2fa..5c17302275b7 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1191,6 +1191,7 @@ static void compact_node(int nid)
 	struct compact_control cc = {
 		.order = -1,
 		.sync = true,
+		.ignore_skip_hint = true,
 	};
 
 	__compact_pgdat(NODE_DATA(nid), &cc);
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