linux_dsm_epyc7002/mm
Mel Gorman 602605a42e mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled while isolating free pages
compaction_alloc() isolates free pages to be used as migration targets.
While its scanning, IRQs are disabled on the mistaken assumption the
scanning should be short.  Analysis showed that IRQs were in fact being
disabled for substantial time.  A simple test was run using large
anonymous mappings with transparent hugepage support enabled to trigger
frequent compactions.  A monitor sampled what the worst IRQ-off latencies
were and a post-processing tool found the following;

  Total sampled time IRQs off (not real total time): 22355
  Event compaction_alloc..compaction_alloc                 8409 us count 1
  Event compaction_alloc..compaction_alloc                 7341 us count 1
  Event compaction_alloc..compaction_alloc                 2463 us count 1
  Event compaction_alloc..compaction_alloc                 2054 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                  1864 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                    88 us count 1
  Event save_args..call_softirq                              36 us count 1
  Event save_args..call_softirq                              35 us count 2
  Event __make_request..__blk_run_queue                      24 us count 1
  Event __alloc_pages_nodemask..__alloc_pages_nodemask        6 us count 1

i.e.  compaction is disabled IRQs for a prolonged period of time - 8ms in
one instance.  The full report generated by the tool can be found at

 http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/minfree-20110225/irqsoff-vanilla-micro.report

This patch reduces the time IRQs are disabled by simply disabling IRQs at
the last possible minute.  An updated IRQs-off summary report then looks
like;

  Total sampled time IRQs off (not real total time): 5493
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                  1596 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                  1530 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                   956 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                   541 us count 1
  Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone                   531 us count 1
  Event split_huge_page..add_to_swap                        232 us count 1
  Event save_args..call_softirq                              36 us count 1
  Event save_args..call_softirq                              35 us count 2
  Event __wake_up..__wake_up                                  1 us count 1

A full report is again available at

  http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/minfree-20110225/irqsoff-minimiseirq-free-v1r4-micro.report

As should be obvious, IRQ disabled latencies due to compaction are
almost elimimnated for this particular test.

[aarcange@redhat.com: Fix initialisation of isolated]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujisu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
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backing-dev.c
bootmem.c bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
bounce.c
compaction.c mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled while isolating free pages 2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get_pages() 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
fremap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c thp+memcg-numa: fix BUG at include/linux/mm.h:370! 2011-03-14 08:29:50 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: export __get_user_pages 2011-03-17 13:08:27 -03:00
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c mm: rename drop_anon_vma() to put_anon_vma() 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile bootmem: Separate out CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM code into nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:05 +01:00
memblock.c memblock: don't adjust size in memblock_find_base() 2011-02-11 16:12:20 -08:00
memcontrol.c pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
memory-failure.c mm: change __remove_from_page_cache() 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
memory.c mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: remove redundant check in __mpol_equal() 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: rename drop_anon_vma() to put_anon_vma() 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG 2011-02-23 21:55:06 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
nommu.c
oom_kill.c oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: batch-free pcp list if possible 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c mm: reclaim invalidated page ASAP 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: simplify anon_vma refcounts 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
shmem.c mm: shmem: change remove_from_page_cache 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
slab.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
slob.c
slub.c slub: Add statistics for this_cmpxchg_double failures 2011-03-22 20:48:04 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c mm: reclaim invalidated page ASAP 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: swap: unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles 2011-03-22 17:43:58 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c mm: deactivate invalidated pages 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
util.c
vmalloc.c mm: vmap area cache 2011-03-22 17:44:00 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: kswapd should not free an excessive number of pages when balancing small zones 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
vmstat.c