linux_dsm_epyc7002/mm
Vlastimil Babka 53853e2d2b 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
3a025760fc ("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>
2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
..
backing-dev.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: print more details for bad_page() 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map' 2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
cma.c mm: cma: adjust address limit to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary 2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: defer each zone individually instead of preferred zone 2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c Fix unbalanced mutex in dma_pool_create(). 2014-09-18 10:39:16 -07:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c NFS client updates for Linux 3.18 2014-10-08 12:49:23 -04:00
fremap.c mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
frontswap.c swap: change swap_list_head to plist, add swap_avail_head 2014-06-04 16:54:07 -07:00
gup.c kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem 2014-09-24 14:07:54 +02:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm, THP: don't hold mmap_sem in khugepaged when allocating THP 2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: use lockdep_assert_held rather than spin_is_locked 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: fix potential infinite loop in dissolve_free_huge_pages() 2014-08-06 18:01:21 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm/internal.h: use nth_page 2014-08-06 18:01:16 -07:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
iov_iter.c fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode 2014-09-26 21:16:51 -04:00
Kconfig mm/zpool: update zswap to use zpool 2014-08-06 18:01:23 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
ksm.c sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions 2014-07-16 15:10:39 +02:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c mm: update the description for madvise_remove 2014-08-06 18:01:18 -07:00
Makefile mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise 2014-08-17 19:44:24 -05:00
memblock.c mem-hotplug: let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range() 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs 2014-10-02 16:28:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory-hotplug: add sysfs valid_zones attribute 2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
memory-failure.c hwpoison: fix race with changing page during offlining 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
memory.c mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte 2014-09-26 08:10:35 -07:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'for-3.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-07-10 11:38:23 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
migrate.c mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect 2014-10-02 11:57:18 -07:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c mm: describe mmap_sem rules for __lock_page_or_retry() and callers 2014-08-06 18:01:20 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c mm/mmap.c: whitespace fixes 2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c kvm: Fix page ageing bugs 2014-09-24 14:07:58 +02:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range 2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page() 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
msync.c msync: fix incorrect fstart calculation 2014-07-03 09:21:53 -07:00
nobootmem.c mem-hotplug: let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range() 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
nommu.c arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area 2014-08-08 15:57:27 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: remove unnecessary exit_state check 2014-08-06 18:01:21 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm, compaction: defer each zone individually instead of preferred zone 2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: mark functions as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
page_io.c fix __swap_writepage() compile failure on old gcc versions 2014-06-14 19:30:48 -05:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm, writeback: prevent race when calculating dirty limits 2014-08-06 18:01:21 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs 2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: perform tlb flush after pcpu_map_pages() failure 2014-08-15 16:06:10 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system 2014-08-16 08:59:02 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: actually clear pmd_numa before invalidating 2014-08-29 16:28:15 -07:00
process_vm_access.c start adding the tag to iov_iter 2014-05-06 17:32:49 -04:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: remove unused file_ra_state from count_history_pages 2014-08-06 18:01:15 -07:00
rmap.c kvm: Fix page ageing bugs 2014-09-24 14:07:58 +02:00
shmem.c shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory 2014-09-26 21:16:42 -04:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common: commonize slab merge logic 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
slab.c mm/slab: use percpu allocator for cpu cache 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
slab.h mm/slab: use percpu allocator for cpu cache 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
slob.c mm/sl[ao]b: always track caller in kmalloc_(node_)track_caller() 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
slub.c mm/slab_common: commonize slab merge logic 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings 2014-08-08 15:57:31 -07:00
swap.c mm: memcontrol: use page lists for uncharge batching 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API 2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
truncate.c mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API 2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
util.c proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: clean up map_vm_area third argument 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
vmpressure.c arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c mm, compaction: defer each zone individually instead of preferred zone 2014-10-09 22:25:53 -04:00
vmstat.c mm: vmscan: only update per-cpu thresholds for online CPU 2014-08-06 18:01:20 -07:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zpool: use prefixed module loading 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
zpool.c mm/zpool: use prefixed module loading 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
zsmalloc.c mm/zpool: use prefixed module loading 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: add __init to zswap_entry_cache_destroy() 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00