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Mel Gorman cb2dcaf023 mm, compaction: finish pageblock scanning on contention
Async migration aborts on spinlock contention but contention can be high
when there are multiple compaction attempts and kswapd is active.  The
consequence is that the migration scanners move forward uselessly while
still contending on locks for longer while leaving suitable migration
sources behind.

This patch will acquire the lock but track when contention occurs.  When
it does, the current pageblock will finish as compaction may succeed for
that block and then abort.  This will have a variable impact on latency
as in some cases useless scanning is avoided (reduces latency) but a
lock will be contended (increase latency) or a single contended
pageblock is scanned that would otherwise have been skipped (increase
latency).

                                     5.0.0-rc1              5.0.0-rc1
                                norescan-v3r16    finishcontend-v3r16
Amean     fault-both-1         0.00 (   0.00%)        0.00 *   0.00%*
Amean     fault-both-3      3002.07 (   0.00%)     3153.17 (  -5.03%)
Amean     fault-both-5      4684.47 (   0.00%)     4280.52 (   8.62%)
Amean     fault-both-7      6815.54 (   0.00%)     5811.50 *  14.73%*
Amean     fault-both-12    10864.02 (   0.00%)     9276.85 (  14.61%)
Amean     fault-both-18    12247.52 (   0.00%)    11032.67 (   9.92%)
Amean     fault-both-24    15683.99 (   0.00%)    14285.70 (   8.92%)
Amean     fault-both-30    18620.02 (   0.00%)    16293.76 *  12.49%*
Amean     fault-both-32    19250.28 (   0.00%)    16721.02 *  13.14%*

                                5.0.0-rc1              5.0.0-rc1
                           norescan-v3r16    finishcontend-v3r16
Percentage huge-1         0.00 (   0.00%)        0.00 (   0.00%)
Percentage huge-3        95.00 (   0.00%)       96.82 (   1.92%)
Percentage huge-5        94.22 (   0.00%)       95.40 (   1.26%)
Percentage huge-7        92.35 (   0.00%)       95.92 (   3.86%)
Percentage huge-12       91.90 (   0.00%)       96.73 (   5.25%)
Percentage huge-18       89.58 (   0.00%)       96.77 (   8.03%)
Percentage huge-24       90.03 (   0.00%)       96.05 (   6.69%)
Percentage huge-30       89.14 (   0.00%)       96.81 (   8.60%)
Percentage huge-32       90.58 (   0.00%)       97.41 (   7.54%)

There is a variable impact that is mostly good on latency while allocation
success rates are slightly higher.  System CPU usage is reduced by about
10% but scan rate impact is mixed

Compaction migrate scanned    27997659.00    20148867
Compaction free scanned      120782791.00   118324914

Migration scan rates are reduced 28% which is expected as a pageblock is
used by the async scanner instead of skipped.  The impact on the free
scanner is known to be variable.  Overall the primary justification for
this patch is that completing scanning of a pageblock is very important
for later patches.

[yuehaibing@huawei.com: fix unused variable warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-14-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.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>
2019-03-05 21:07:16 -08:00
arch arm64/mm: enable HugeTLB migration for contiguous bit HugeTLB pages 2019-03-05 21:07:15 -08:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-05 09:09:55 -08:00
Documentation mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
drivers mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration source 2019-03-05 21:07:16 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs memcg: localize memcg_kmem_enabled() check 2019-03-05 21:07:15 -08:00
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init mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-05 09:09:55 -08:00
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.