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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2019-03-05 15:45:41 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-05 21:07:17 -0800 |
| commit | 5e1f0f098b4649fad53011246bcaeff011ffdf5d (patch) | |
| tree | 88e1399008fd89a44a52b3dabb6da42eef15da05 /mm/internal.h | |
| parent | e332f741a8dd1ec9a6dc8aa997296ecbfe64323e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5e1f0f098b4649fad53011246bcaeff011ffdf5d.tar.gz lwn-5e1f0f098b4649fad53011246bcaeff011ffdf5d.zip | |
mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction
Compaction is inherently race-prone as a suitable page freed during
compaction can be allocated by any parallel task. This patch uses a
capture_control structure to isolate a page immediately when it is freed
by a direct compactor in the slow path of the page allocator. The
intent is to avoid redundant scanning.
5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 2582.11 ( 0.00%) 2563.68 ( 0.71%)
Amean fault-both-5 4500.26 ( 0.00%) 4233.52 ( 5.93%)
Amean fault-both-7 5819.53 ( 0.00%) 6333.65 ( -8.83%)
Amean fault-both-12 9321.18 ( 0.00%) 9759.38 ( -4.70%)
Amean fault-both-18 9782.76 ( 0.00%) 10338.76 ( -5.68%)
Amean fault-both-24 15272.81 ( 0.00%) 13379.55 * 12.40%*
Amean fault-both-30 15121.34 ( 0.00%) 16158.25 ( -6.86%)
Amean fault-both-32 18466.67 ( 0.00%) 18971.21 ( -2.73%)
Latency is only moderately affected but the devil is in the details. A
closer examination indicates that base page fault latency is reduced but
latency of huge pages is increased as it takes creater care to succeed.
Part of the "problem" is that allocation success rates are close to 100%
even when under pressure and compaction gets harder
5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19
Percentage huge-3 96.70 ( 0.00%) 98.23 ( 1.58%)
Percentage huge-5 96.99 ( 0.00%) 95.30 ( -1.75%)
Percentage huge-7 94.19 ( 0.00%) 97.24 ( 3.24%)
Percentage huge-12 94.95 ( 0.00%) 97.35 ( 2.53%)
Percentage huge-18 96.74 ( 0.00%) 97.30 ( 0.58%)
Percentage huge-24 97.07 ( 0.00%) 97.55 ( 0.50%)
Percentage huge-30 95.69 ( 0.00%) 98.50 ( 2.95%)
Percentage huge-32 96.70 ( 0.00%) 99.27 ( 2.65%)
And scan rates are reduced as expected by 6% for the migration scanner
and 29% for the free scanner indicating that there is less redundant
work.
Compaction migrate scanned 20815362 19573286
Compaction free scanned 16352612 11510663
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: remove redundant check]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201143853.GH9565@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-23-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/internal.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/internal.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index 31bb0be6fd52..9eeaf2b95166 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ struct compact_control { bool rescan; /* Rescanning the same pageblock */ }; +/* + * Used in direct compaction when a page should be taken from the freelists + * immediately when one is created during the free path. + */ +struct capture_control { + struct compact_control *cc; + struct page *page; +}; + unsigned long isolate_freepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn); |