mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path

Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails.
Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the
caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not
going to have a significantly better success rate.

This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to
indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not.
For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called
asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is
called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 2c6523a..584fc55 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -733,7 +733,8 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 			goto out;
 		}
 		/* this function returns # of failed pages */
-		ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0, 1);
+		ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0,
+								1, true);
 		if (ret)
 			putback_lru_pages(&source);
 	}