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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2016-05-20 02:11:55 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 04:12:14 +0200
commitfdd048e12c9a46d058f69822cb15641adae181e1 (patch)
tree6f8f154a7b9b6a07de1d4fa09855d70891da6acb
parentmm, compaction: reduce spurious pcplist drains (diff)
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mm, compaction: skip blocks where isolation fails in async direct compaction
The goal of direct compaction is to quickly make a high-order page available for the pending allocation. Within an aligned block of pages of desired order, a single allocated page that cannot be isolated for migration means that the block cannot fully merge to a buddy page that would satisfy the allocation request. Therefore we can reduce the allocation stall by skipping the rest of the block immediately on isolation failure. For async compaction, this also means a higher chance of succeeding until it detects contention. We however shouldn't completely sacrifice the second objective of compaction, which is to reduce overal long-term memory fragmentation. As a compromise, perform the eager skipping only in direct async compaction, while sync compaction (including kcompactd) remains thorough. Testing was done using stress-highalloc from mmtests, configured for order-4 GFP_KERNEL allocations: 4.6-rc1 4.6-rc1 before after Success 1 Min 24.00 ( 0.00%) 27.00 (-12.50%) Success 1 Mean 30.20 ( 0.00%) 31.60 ( -4.64%) Success 1 Max 37.00 ( 0.00%) 35.00 ( 5.41%) Success 2 Min 42.00 ( 0.00%) 32.00 ( 23.81%) Success 2 Mean 44.00 ( 0.00%) 44.80 ( -1.82%) Success 2 Max 48.00 ( 0.00%) 52.00 ( -8.33%) Success 3 Min 91.00 ( 0.00%) 92.00 ( -1.10%) Success 3 Mean 92.20 ( 0.00%) 92.80 ( -0.65%) Success 3 Max 94.00 ( 0.00%) 93.00 ( 1.06%) We can see that success rates are unaffected by the skipping. 4.6-rc1 4.6-rc1 before after User 2587.42 2566.53 System 482.89 471.20 Elapsed 1395.68 1382.00 Times are not so useful metric for this benchmark as main portion is the interfering kernel builds, but results do hint at reduced system times. 4.6-rc1 4.6-rc1 before after Direct pages scanned 163614 159608 Kswapd pages scanned 2070139 2078790 Kswapd pages reclaimed 2061707 2069757 Direct pages reclaimed 163354 159505 Reduced direct reclaim was unintended, but could be explained by more successful first attempt at (async) direct compaction, which is attempted before the first reclaim attempt in __alloc_pages_slowpath(). Compaction stalls 33052 39853 Compaction success 12121 19773 Compaction failures 20931 20079 Compaction is indeed more successful, and thus less likely to get deferred, so there are also more direct compaction stalls. Page migrate success 3781876 3326819 Page migrate failure 45817 41774 Compaction pages isolated 7868232 6941457 Compaction migrate scanned 168160492 127269354 Compaction migrate prescanned 0 0 Compaction free scanned 2522142582 2326342620 Compaction free direct alloc 0 0 Compaction free dir. all. miss 0 0 Compaction cost 5252 4476 The patch reduces migration scanned pages by 25% thanks to the eager skipping. [hughd@google.com: prevent nr_isolated_* from going negative] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c89
1 files changed, 80 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 329973a1ae45..7487067b4613 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -638,12 +638,13 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
{
struct zone *zone = cc->zone;
unsigned long nr_scanned = 0, nr_isolated = 0;
- struct list_head *migratelist = &cc->migratepages;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
unsigned long flags = 0;
bool locked = false;
struct page *page = NULL, *valid_page = NULL;
unsigned long start_pfn = low_pfn;
+ bool skip_on_failure = false;
+ unsigned long next_skip_pfn = 0;
/*
* Ensure that there are not too many pages isolated from the LRU
@@ -664,10 +665,37 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
if (compact_should_abort(cc))
return 0;
+ if (cc->direct_compaction && (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)) {
+ skip_on_failure = true;
+ next_skip_pfn = block_end_pfn(low_pfn, cc->order);
+ }
+
/* Time to isolate some pages for migration */
for (; low_pfn < end_pfn; low_pfn++) {
bool is_lru;
+ if (skip_on_failure && low_pfn >= next_skip_pfn) {
+ /*
+ * We have isolated all migration candidates in the
+ * previous order-aligned block, and did not skip it due
+ * to failure. We should migrate the pages now and
+ * hopefully succeed compaction.
+ */
+ if (nr_isolated)
+ break;
+
+ /*
+ * We failed to isolate in the previous order-aligned
+ * block. Set the new boundary to the end of the
+ * current block. Note we can't simply increase
+ * next_skip_pfn by 1 << order, as low_pfn might have
+ * been incremented by a higher number due to skipping
+ * a compound or a high-order buddy page in the
+ * previous loop iteration.
+ */
+ next_skip_pfn = block_end_pfn(low_pfn, cc->order);
+ }
+
/*
* Periodically drop the lock (if held) regardless of its
* contention, to give chance to IRQs. Abort async compaction
@@ -679,7 +707,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
break;
if (!pfn_valid_within(low_pfn))
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
nr_scanned++;
page = pfn_to_page(low_pfn);
@@ -734,11 +762,11 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
if (likely(comp_order < MAX_ORDER))
low_pfn += (1UL << comp_order) - 1;
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
}
if (!is_lru)
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
/*
* Migration will fail if an anonymous page is pinned in memory,
@@ -747,7 +775,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
*/
if (!page_mapping(page) &&
page_count(page) > page_mapcount(page))
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
/* If we already hold the lock, we can skip some rechecking */
if (!locked) {
@@ -758,7 +786,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
/* Recheck PageLRU and PageCompound under lock */
if (!PageLRU(page))
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
/*
* Page become compound since the non-locked check,
@@ -767,7 +795,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
*/
if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
low_pfn += (1UL << compound_order(page)) - 1;
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
}
}
@@ -775,7 +803,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
/* Try isolate the page */
if (__isolate_lru_page(page, isolate_mode) != 0)
- continue;
+ goto isolate_fail;
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page);
@@ -783,7 +811,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
isolate_success:
- list_add(&page->lru, migratelist);
+ list_add(&page->lru, &cc->migratepages);
cc->nr_migratepages++;
nr_isolated++;
@@ -801,6 +829,37 @@ isolate_success:
++low_pfn;
break;
}
+
+ continue;
+isolate_fail:
+ if (!skip_on_failure)
+ continue;
+
+ /*
+ * We have isolated some pages, but then failed. Release them
+ * instead of migrating, as we cannot form the cc->order buddy
+ * page anyway.
+ */
+ if (nr_isolated) {
+ if (locked) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
+ locked = false;
+ }
+ acct_isolated(zone, cc);
+ putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
+ cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+ cc->last_migrated_pfn = 0;
+ nr_isolated = 0;
+ }
+
+ if (low_pfn < next_skip_pfn) {
+ low_pfn = next_skip_pfn - 1;
+ /*
+ * The check near the loop beginning would have updated
+ * next_skip_pfn too, but this is a bit simpler.
+ */
+ next_skip_pfn += 1UL << cc->order;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -1401,6 +1460,18 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
ret = COMPACT_CONTENDED;
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * We failed to migrate at least one page in the current
+ * order-aligned block, so skip the rest of it.
+ */
+ if (cc->direct_compaction &&
+ (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)) {
+ cc->migrate_pfn = block_end_pfn(
+ cc->migrate_pfn - 1, cc->order);
+ /* Draining pcplists is useless in this case */
+ cc->last_migrated_pfn = 0;
+
+ }
}
check_drain: