mm: compaction: add /proc trigger for memory compaction

Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory.  When an arbitrary value is
written to the file, all zones are compacted.  The expected user of such a
trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target
application runs.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mel Gorman
2010-05-24 14:32:28 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 748446bb6b
commit 76ab0f530e
4 changed files with 88 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/highuid.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/compaction.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/initrd.h>
#include <linux/key.h>
@@ -1121,6 +1122,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = drop_caches_sysctl_handler,
},
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
{
.procname = "compact_memory",
.data = &sysctl_compact_memory,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0200,
.proc_handler = sysctl_compaction_handler,
},
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
{
.procname = "min_free_kbytes",
.data = &min_free_kbytes,