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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3ad66580b8b4..1860bfab02c5 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3103,11 +3103,11 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
if (!managed_zone(zone))
continue;
- if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx))
- return false;
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx))
+ return true;
}
- return true;
+ return false;
}
/*
@@ -3304,7 +3304,13 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int alloc_order, int reclaim_o
prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- /* Try to sleep for a short interval */
+ /*
+ * Try to sleep for a short interval. Note that kcompactd will only be
+ * woken if it is possible to sleep for a short interval. This is
+ * deliberate on the assumption that if reclaim cannot keep an
+ * eligible zone balanced that it's also unlikely that compaction will
+ * succeed.
+ */
if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, reclaim_order, classzone_idx)) {
/*
* Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to