FROMLIST: mm: failfast mode with __GFP_NORETRY in alloc_contig_range
Contiguous memory allocation can be stalled due to waiting on page writeback and/or page lock which causes unpredictable delay. It's a unavoidable cost for the requestor to get *big* contiguous memory but it's expensive for *small* contiguous memory(e.g., order-4) because caller could retry the request in different range where would have easy migratable pages without stalling. This patch introduce __GFP_NORETRY as compaction gfp_mask in alloc_contig_range so it will fail fast without blocking when it encounters pages needed waiting. Bug: 170340257 Bug: 120293424 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YAnM5PbNJZlk%2F%2FiX@google.com/T/#m1362218ebb69e6e10c20d9361008b079745c4e6f Signed-off-by:Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com> Change-Id: I42ba8dd5aeb065d936978ab205e4baf84bf9a321 Signed-off-by:
Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com> (cherry picked from commit 20512940)
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