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    mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous... · 77f1fe6b
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    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: default avatarMel 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: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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