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Commit 1883e8ac authored by Baolin Wang's avatar Baolin Wang Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: compaction: limit the suitable target page order to be less than cc->order

It can not improve the fragmentation if we isolate the target free pages
exceeding cc->order, especially when the cc->order is less than
pageblock_order.  For example, suppose the pageblock_order is MAX_ORDER
(size is 4M) and cc->order is 2M THP size, we should not isolate other 2M
free pages to be the migration target, which can not improve the
fragmentation.

Moreover this is also applicable for large folio compaction.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/afcd9377351c259df7a25a388a4a0d5862b986f4.1705928395.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 45866e0e
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