From: gaoxiang17 <gaoxiang17@xiaomi.com> mainline inclusion from mainline-v6.14-rc1 commit 6025ea5abbe5d813d6a41c78e6ea14259fb503f4 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/IBC4T0 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... -------------------------------- [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak grammar, fit to 80 cols] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240920122030.159751-1-gxxa03070307@gmail.com Signed-off-by: gaoxiang17 <gaoxiang17@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index a82685824455..867a346b2fa8 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1848,6 +1848,14 @@ static bool can_steal_fallback(unsigned int order, int start_mt) if (order >= pageblock_order) return true; + /* + * Movable pages won't cause permanent fragmentation, so when you alloc + * small pages, you just need to temporarily steal unmovable or + * reclaimable pages that are closest to the request size. After a + * while, memory compaction may occur to form large contiguous pages, + * and the next movable allocation may not need to steal. Unmovable and + * reclaimable allocations need to actually steal pages. + */ if (order >= pageblock_order / 2 || start_mt == MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE || start_mt == MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE || -- 2.43.0