Re: Realtime threads delayed due to kcompactd0

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On 7/31/25 20:34, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> Not sure what the right thing to do would be. Either explicitly boost
> the priority of a thread temporarily during migrate_pages_batch, or
> mitigate the issue by dealing with 'busy' pages more quickly in
> migrate_pages_batch.

There's a workaround for realtime tasks. If you mlock[all]() their memory,
setting sysctl vm.compact_unevictable_allowed to 0 should exclude these
pages from migration by compaction.

Vlastimil
> - Frank
> 





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