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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 9c9194959271..87cbd92065e5 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4458,6 +4458,28 @@ retry_cpuset: if (page) goto got_pg; + if (order >= pageblock_order && (gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) { + /* + * If allocating entire pageblock(s) and compaction + * failed because all zones are below low watermarks + * or is prohibited because it recently failed at this + * order, fail immediately. + * + * Reclaim is + * - potentially very expensive because zones are far + * below their low watermarks or this is part of very + * bursty high order allocations, + * - not guaranteed to help because isolate_freepages() + * may not iterate over freed pages as part of its + * linear scan, and + * - unlikely to make entire pageblocks free on its + * own. + */ + if (compact_result == COMPACT_SKIPPED || + compact_result == COMPACT_DEFERRED) + goto nopage; + } + /* * Checks for costly allocations with __GFP_NORETRY, which * includes THP page fault allocations |