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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2014-10-09 15:27:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:25:53 -0400
commit53853e2d2bfb748a8b5aa2fd1de15699266865e0 (patch)
treedd09605e9cd9a4329afc274faffae1c15e81f150 /mm/vmscan.c
parent8b1645685acf3c7e0b93611fb4b328ef45c47e92 (diff)
mm, compaction: defer each zone individually instead of preferred zone
When direct sync compaction is often unsuccessful, it may become deferred for some time to avoid further useless attempts, both sync and async. Successful high-order allocations un-defer compaction, while further unsuccessful compaction attempts prolong the compaction deferred period. Currently the checking and setting deferred status is performed only on the preferred zone of the allocation that invoked direct compaction. But compaction itself is attempted on all eligible zones in the zonelist, so the behavior is suboptimal and may lead both to scenarios where 1) compaction is attempted uselessly, or 2) where it's not attempted despite good chances of succeeding, as shown on the examples below: 1) A direct compaction with Normal preferred zone failed and set deferred compaction for the Normal zone. Another unrelated direct compaction with DMA32 as preferred zone will attempt to compact DMA32 zone even though the first compaction attempt also included DMA32 zone. In another scenario, compaction with Normal preferred zone failed to compact Normal zone, but succeeded in the DMA32 zone, so it will not defer compaction. In the next attempt, it will try Normal zone which will fail again, instead of skipping Normal zone and trying DMA32 directly. 2) Kswapd will balance DMA32 zone and reset defer status based on watermarks looking good. A direct compaction with preferred Normal zone will skip compaction of all zones including DMA32 because Normal was still deferred. The allocation might have succeeded in DMA32, but won't. This patch makes compaction deferring work on individual zone basis instead of preferred zone. For each zone, it checks compaction_deferred() to decide if the zone should be skipped. If watermarks fail after compacting the zone, defer_compaction() is called. The zone where watermarks passed can still be deferred when the allocation attempt is unsuccessful. When allocation is successful, compaction_defer_reset() is called for the zone containing the allocated page. This approach should approximate calling defer_compaction() only on zones where compaction was attempted and did not yield allocated page. There might be corner cases but that is inevitable as long as the decision to stop compacting dues not guarantee that a page will be allocated. Due to a new COMPACT_DEFERRED return value, some functions relying implicitly on COMPACT_SKIPPED = 0 had to be updated, with comments made more accurate. The did_some_progress output parameter of __alloc_pages_direct_compact() is removed completely, as the caller actually does not use it after compaction sets it - it is only considered when direct reclaim sets it. During testing on a two-node machine with a single very small Normal zone on node 1, this patch has improved success rates in stress-highalloc mmtests benchmark. The success here were previously made worse by commit 3a025760fc15 ("mm: page_alloc: spill to remote nodes before waking kswapd") as kswapd was no longer resetting often enough the deferred compaction for the Normal zone, and DMA32 zones on both nodes were thus not considered for compaction. On different machine, success rates were improved with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD allocations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_COMPACTION=n build] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 2836b5373b2e..1a71b8b1ea34 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2315,7 +2315,10 @@ static bool shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
return reclaimable;
}
-/* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
+/*
+ * Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request, or
+ * the high-order allocation would succeed without compaction.
+ */
static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
{
unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
@@ -2339,8 +2342,11 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
return watermark_ok;
- /* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
- if (!compaction_suitable(zone, order))
+ /*
+ * If compaction is not ready to start and allocation is not likely
+ * to succeed without it, then keep reclaiming.
+ */
+ if (compaction_suitable(zone, order) == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
return false;
return watermark_ok;
@@ -2818,7 +2824,7 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
return false;
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && order &&
- !compaction_suitable(zone, order))
+ compaction_suitable(zone, order) == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
return false;
return true;