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  1. 08 4月, 2014 5 次提交
  3. 04 4月, 2014 3 次提交
  5. 11 3月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm/compaction: break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages_block · 2af120bc
      由 Laura Abbott 提交于 
      We received several reports of bad page state when freeing CMA pages
previously allocated with alloc_contig_range:

    BUG: Bad page state in process Binder_A  pfn:63202
    page:d21130b0 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:  (null) index:0x7dfbf
    page flags: 0x40080068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked)

Based on the page state, it looks like the page was still in use.  The
page flags do not make sense for the use case though.  Further debugging
showed that despite alloc_contig_range returning success, at least one
page in the range still remained in the buddy allocator.

There is an issue with isolate_freepages_block.  In strict mode (which
CMA uses), if any pages in the range cannot be isolated,
isolate_freepages_block should return failure 0.  The current check
keeps track of the total number of isolated pages and compares against
the size of the range:

        if (strict && nr_strict_required > total_isolated)
                total_isolated = 0;

After taking the zone lock, if one of the pages in the range is not in
the buddy allocator, we continue through the loop and do not increment
total_isolated.  If in the last iteration of the loop we isolate more
than one page (e.g.  last page needed is a higher order page), the check
for total_isolated may pass and we fail to detect that a page was
skipped.  The fix is to bail out if the loop immediately if we are in
strict mode.  There's no benfit to continuing anyway since we need all
pages to be isolated.  Additionally, drop the error checking based on
nr_strict_required and just check the pfn ranges.  This matches with
what isolate_freepages_range does.
Signed-off-by: NLaura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2af120bc
  7. 24 1月, 2014 2 次提交
  9. 22 1月, 2014 6 次提交
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      mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet · 55b7c4c9
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction used to start its migrate and free page scaners at the zone's
lowest and highest pfn, respectively.  Later, caching was introduced to
remember the scanners' progress across compaction attempts so that
pageblocks are not re-scanned uselessly.  Additionally, pageblocks where
isolation failed are marked to be quickly skipped when encountered again
in future compactions.

Currently, both the reset of cached pfn's and clearing of the pageblock
skip information for a zone is done in __reset_isolation_suitable().
This function gets called when:

 - compaction is restarting after being deferred
 - compact_blockskip_flush flag is set in compact_finished() when the scanners
   meet (and not again cleared when direct compaction succeeds in allocation)
   and kswapd acts upon this flag before going to sleep

This behavior is suboptimal for several reasons:

 - when direct sync compaction is called after async compaction fails (in the
   allocation slowpath), it will effectively do nothing, unless kswapd
   happens to process the compact_blockskip_flush flag meanwhile. This is racy
   and goes against the purpose of sync compaction to more thoroughly retry
   the compaction of a zone where async compaction has failed.
   The restart-after-deferring path cannot help here as deferring happens only
   after the sync compaction fails. It is also done only for the preferred
   zone, while the compaction might be done for a fallback zone.

 - the mechanism of marking pageblock to be skipped has little value since the
   cached pfn's are reset only together with the pageblock skip flags. This
   effectively limits pageblock skip usage to parallel compactions.

This patch changes compact_finished() so that cached pfn's are reset
immediately when the scanners meet.  Clearing pageblock skip flags is
unchanged, as well as the other situations where cached pfn's are reset.
This allows the sync-after-async compaction to retry pageblocks not
marked as skipped, such as blocks !MIGRATE_MOVABLE blocks that async
compactions now skips without marking them.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      55b7c4c9
    • V
      mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction · 50b5b094
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction temporarily marks pageblocks where it fails to isolate pages
as to-be-skipped in further compactions, in order to improve efficiency.
One of the reasons to fail isolating pages is that isolation is not
attempted in pageblocks that are not of MIGRATE_MOVABLE (or CMA) type.

The problem is that blocks skipped due to not being MIGRATE_MOVABLE in
async compaction become skipped due to the temporary mark also in future
sync compaction.  Moreover, this may follow quite soon during
__alloc_page_slowpath, without much time for kswapd to clear the
pageblock skip marks.  This goes against the idea that sync compaction
should try to scan these blocks more thoroughly than the async
compaction.

The fix is to ensure in async compaction that these !MIGRATE_MOVABLE
blocks are not marked to be skipped.  Note this should not affect
performance or locking impact of further async compactions, as skipping
a block due to being !MIGRATE_MOVABLE is done soon after skipping a
block marked to be skipped, both without locking.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50b5b094
    • V
      mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages · 7ed695e0
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction of a zone is finished when the migrate scanner (which begins
at the zone's lowest pfn) meets the free page scanner (which begins at
the zone's highest pfn).  This is detected in compact_zone() and in the
case of direct compaction, the compact_blockskip_flush flag is set so
that kswapd later resets the cached scanner pfn's, and a new compaction
may again start at the zone's borders.

The meeting of the scanners can happen during either scanner's activity.
However, it may currently fail to be detected when it occurs in the free
page scanner, due to two problems.  First, isolate_freepages() keeps
free_pfn at the highest block where it isolated pages from, for the
purposes of not missing the pages that are returned back to allocator
when migration fails.  Second, failing to isolate enough free pages due
to scanners meeting results in -ENOMEM being returned by
migrate_pages(), which makes compact_zone() bail out immediately without
calling compact_finished() that would detect scanners meeting.

This failure to detect scanners meeting might result in repeated
attempts at compaction of a zone that keep starting from the cached
pfn's close to the meeting point, and quickly failing through the
-ENOMEM path, without the cached pfns being reset, over and over.  This
has been observed (through additional tracepoints) in the third phase of
the mmtests stress-highalloc benchmark, where the allocator runs on an
otherwise idle system.  The problem was observed in the DMA32 zone,
which was used as a fallback to the preferred Normal zone, but on the
4GB system it was actually the largest zone.  The problem is even
amplified for such fallback zone - the deferred compaction logic, which
could (after being fixed by a previous patch) reset the cached scanner
pfn's, is only applied to the preferred zone and not for the fallbacks.

The problem in the third phase of the benchmark was further amplified by
commit 81c0a2bb ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") which
resulted in a non-deterministic regression of the allocation success
rate from ~85% to ~65%.  This occurs in about half of benchmark runs,
making bisection problematic.  It is unlikely that the commit itself is
buggy, but it should put more pressure on the DMA32 zone during phases 1
and 2, which may leave it more fragmented in phase 3 and expose the bugs
that this patch fixes.

The fix is to make scanners meeting in isolate_freepage() stay that way,
and to check in compact_zone() for scanners meeting when migrate_pages()
returns -ENOMEM.  The result is that compact_finished() also detects
scanners meeting and sets the compact_blockskip_flush flag to make
kswapd reset the scanner pfn's.

The results in stress-highalloc benchmark show that the "regression" by
commit 81c0a2bb in phase 3 no longer occurs, and phase 1 and 2
allocation success rates are also significantly improved.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7ed695e0
    • V
      mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them · d3132e4b
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Compaction caches pfn's for its migrate and free scanners to avoid
scanning the whole zone each time.  In compact_zone(), the cached values
are read to set up initial values for the scanners.  There are several
situations when these cached pfn's are reset to the first and last pfn
of the zone, respectively.  One of these situations is when a compaction
has been deferred for a zone and is now being restarted during a direct
compaction, which is also done in compact_zone().

However, compact_zone() currently reads the cached pfn's *before*
resetting them.  This means the reset doesn't affect the compaction that
performs it, and with good chance also subsequent compactions, as
update_pageblock_skip() is likely to be called and update the cached
pfn's to those being processed.  Another chance for a successful reset
is when a direct compaction detects that migration and free scanners
meet (which has its own problems addressed by another patch) and sets
update_pageblock_skip flag which kswapd uses to do the reset because it
goes to sleep.

This is clearly a bug that results in non-deterministic behavior, so
this patch moves the cached pfn reset to be performed *before* the
values are read.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d3132e4b
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      mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic · de6c60a6
      由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于 
      Currently there are several functions to manipulate the deferred
compaction state variables.  The remaining case where the variables are
touched directly is when a successful allocation occurs in direct
compaction, or is expected to be successful in the future by kswapd.
Here, the lowest order that is expected to fail is updated, and in the
case of successful allocation, the deferred status and counter is reset
completely.

Create a new function compaction_defer_reset() to encapsulate this
functionality and make it easier to understand the code.  No functional
change.
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      de6c60a6
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      mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end · 0eb927c0
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      The broad goal of the series is to improve allocation success rates for
huge pages through memory compaction, while trying not to increase the
compaction overhead.  The original objective was to reintroduce
capturing of high-order pages freed by the compaction, before they are
split by concurrent activity.  However, several bugs and opportunities
for simple improvements were found in the current implementation, mostly
through extra tracepoints (which are however too ugly for now to be
considered for sending).

The patches mostly deal with two mechanisms that reduce compaction
overhead, which is caching the progress of migrate and free scanners,
and marking pageblocks where isolation failed to be skipped during
further scans.

Patch 1 (from mgorman) adds tracepoints that allow calculate time spent in
        compaction and potentially debug scanner pfn values.

Patch 2 encapsulates the some functionality for handling deferred compactions
        for better maintainability, without a functional change
        type is not determined without being actually needed.

Patch 3 fixes a bug where cached scanner pfn's are sometimes reset only after
        they have been read to initialize a compaction run.

Patch 4 fixes a bug where scanners meeting is sometimes not properly detected
        and can lead to multiple compaction attempts quitting early without
        doing any work.

Patch 5 improves the chances of sync compaction to process pageblocks that
        async compaction has skipped due to being !MIGRATE_MOVABLE.

Patch 6 improves the chances of sync direct compaction to actually do anything
        when called after async compaction fails during allocation slowpath.

The impact of patches were validated using mmtests's stress-highalloc
benchmark with mmtests's stress-highalloc benchmark on a x86_64 machine
with 4GB memory.

Due to instability of the results (mostly related to the bugs fixed by
patches 2 and 3), 10 iterations were performed, taking min,mean,max
values for success rates and mean values for time and vmstat-based
metrics.

First, the default GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocations were tested with the
patches stacked on top of v3.13-rc2.  Patch 2 is OK to serve as baseline
due to no functional changes in 1 and 2.  Comments below.

stress-highalloc
                             3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2
                              2-nothp               3-nothp               4-nothp               5-nothp               6-nothp
Success 1 Min          9.00 (  0.00%)       10.00 (-11.11%)       43.00 (-377.78%)       43.00 (-377.78%)       33.00 (-266.67%)
Success 1 Mean        27.50 (  0.00%)       25.30 (  8.00%)       45.50 (-65.45%)       45.90 (-66.91%)       46.30 (-68.36%)
Success 1 Max         36.00 (  0.00%)       36.00 (  0.00%)       47.00 (-30.56%)       48.00 (-33.33%)       52.00 (-44.44%)
Success 2 Min         10.00 (  0.00%)        8.00 ( 20.00%)       46.00 (-360.00%)       45.00 (-350.00%)       35.00 (-250.00%)
Success 2 Mean        26.40 (  0.00%)       23.50 ( 10.98%)       47.30 (-79.17%)       47.60 (-80.30%)       48.10 (-82.20%)
Success 2 Max         34.00 (  0.00%)       33.00 (  2.94%)       48.00 (-41.18%)       50.00 (-47.06%)       54.00 (-58.82%)
Success 3 Min         65.00 (  0.00%)       63.00 (  3.08%)       85.00 (-30.77%)       84.00 (-29.23%)       85.00 (-30.77%)
Success 3 Mean        76.70 (  0.00%)       70.50 (  8.08%)       86.20 (-12.39%)       85.50 (-11.47%)       86.00 (-12.13%)
Success 3 Max         87.00 (  0.00%)       86.00 (  1.15%)       88.00 ( -1.15%)       87.00 (  0.00%)       87.00 (  0.00%)

            3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2
             2-nothp     3-nothp     4-nothp     5-nothp     6-nothp
User         6437.72     6459.76     5960.32     5974.55     6019.67
System       1049.65     1049.09     1029.32     1031.47     1032.31
Elapsed      1856.77     1874.48     1949.97     1994.22     1983.15

                              3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2
                               2-nothp     3-nothp     4-nothp     5-nothp     6-nothp
Minor Faults                 253952267   254581900   250030122   250507333   250157829
Major Faults                       420         407         506         530         530
Swap Ins                             4           9           9           6           6
Swap Outs                          398         375         345         346         333
Direct pages scanned            197538      189017      298574      287019      299063
Kswapd pages scanned           1809843     1801308     1846674     1873184     1861089
Kswapd pages reclaimed         1806972     1798684     1844219     1870509     1858622
Direct pages reclaimed          197227      188829      298380      286822      298835
Kswapd efficiency                  99%         99%         99%         99%         99%
Kswapd velocity                953.382     970.449     952.243     934.569     922.286
Direct efficiency                  99%         99%         99%         99%         99%
Direct velocity                104.058     101.832     153.961     143.200     148.205
Percentage direct scans             9%          9%         13%         13%         13%
Zone normal velocity           347.289     359.676     348.063     339.933     332.983
Zone dma32 velocity            710.151     712.605     758.140     737.835     737.507
Zone dma velocity                0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000
Page writes by reclaim         557.600     429.000     353.600     426.400     381.800
Page writes file                   159          53           7          79          48
Page writes anon                   398         375         345         346         333
Page reclaim immediate             825         644         411         575         420
Sector Reads                   2781750     2769780     2878547     2939128     2910483
Sector Writes                 12080843    12083351    12012892    12002132    12010745
Page rescued immediate               0           0           0           0           0
Slabs scanned                  1575654     1545344     1778406     1786700     1794073
Direct inode steals               9657       10037       15795       14104       14645
Kswapd inode steals              46857       46335       50543       50716       51796
Kswapd skipped wait                  0           0           0           0           0
THP fault alloc                     97          91          81          71          77
THP collapse alloc                 456         506         546         544         565
THP splits                           6           5           5           4           4
THP fault fallback                   0           1           0           0           0
THP collapse fail                   14          14          12          13          12
Compaction stalls                 1006         980        1537        1536        1548
Compaction success                 303         284         562         559         578
Compaction failures                702         696         974         976         969
Page migrate success           1177325     1070077     3927538     3781870     3877057
Page migrate failure                 0           0           0           0           0
Compaction pages isolated      2547248     2306457     8301218     8008500     8200674
Compaction migrate scanned    42290478    38832618   153961130   154143900   159141197
Compaction free scanned       89199429    79189151   356529027   351943166   356326727
Compaction cost                   1566        1426        5312        5156        5294
NUMA PTE updates                     0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint faults                     0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint local faults               0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint local percent            100         100         100         100         100
NUMA pages migrated                  0           0           0           0           0
AutoNUMA cost                        0           0           0           0           0

Observations:

- The "Success 3" line is allocation success rate with system idle
  (phases 1 and 2 are with background interference).  I used to get stable
  values around 85% with vanilla 3.11.  The lower min and mean values came
  with 3.12.  This was bisected to commit 81c0a2bb ("mm: page_alloc: fair
  zone allocator policy") As explained in comment for patch 3, I don't
  think the commit is wrong, but that it makes the effect of compaction
  bugs worse.  From patch 3 onwards, the results are OK and match the 3.11
  results.

- Patch 4 also clearly helps phases 1 and 2, and exceeds any results
  I've seen with 3.11 (I didn't measure it that thoroughly then, but it
  was never above 40%).

- Compaction cost and number of scanned pages is higher, especially due
  to patch 4.  However, keep in mind that patches 3 and 4 fix existing
  bugs in the current design of compaction overhead mitigation, they do
  not change it.  If overhead is found unacceptable, then it should be
  decreased differently (and consistently, not due to random conditions)
  than the current implementation does.  In contrast, patches 5 and 6
  (which are not strictly bug fixes) do not increase the overhead (but
  also not success rates).  This might be a limitation of the
  stress-highalloc benchmark as it's quite uniform.

Another set of results is when configuring stress-highalloc t allocate
with similar flags as THP uses:
 (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)

stress-highalloc
                             3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2
                                2-thp                 3-thp                 4-thp                 5-thp                 6-thp
Success 1 Min          2.00 (  0.00%)        7.00 (-250.00%)       18.00 (-800.00%)       19.00 (-850.00%)       26.00 (-1200.00%)
Success 1 Mean        19.20 (  0.00%)       17.80 (  7.29%)       29.20 (-52.08%)       29.90 (-55.73%)       32.80 (-70.83%)
Success 1 Max         27.00 (  0.00%)       29.00 ( -7.41%)       35.00 (-29.63%)       36.00 (-33.33%)       37.00 (-37.04%)
Success 2 Min          3.00 (  0.00%)        8.00 (-166.67%)       21.00 (-600.00%)       21.00 (-600.00%)       32.00 (-966.67%)
Success 2 Mean        19.30 (  0.00%)       17.90 (  7.25%)       32.20 (-66.84%)       32.60 (-68.91%)       35.70 (-84.97%)
Success 2 Max         27.00 (  0.00%)       30.00 (-11.11%)       36.00 (-33.33%)       37.00 (-37.04%)       39.00 (-44.44%)
Success 3 Min         62.00 (  0.00%)       62.00 (  0.00%)       85.00 (-37.10%)       75.00 (-20.97%)       64.00 ( -3.23%)
Success 3 Mean        66.30 (  0.00%)       65.50 (  1.21%)       85.60 (-29.11%)       83.40 (-25.79%)       83.50 (-25.94%)
Success 3 Max         70.00 (  0.00%)       69.00 (  1.43%)       87.00 (-24.29%)       86.00 (-22.86%)       87.00 (-24.29%)

            3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2
               2-thp       3-thp       4-thp       5-thp       6-thp
User         6547.93     6475.85     6265.54     6289.46     6189.96
System       1053.42     1047.28     1043.23     1042.73     1038.73
Elapsed      1835.43     1821.96     1908.67     1912.74     1956.38

                              3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2
                                 2-thp       3-thp       4-thp       5-thp       6-thp
Minor Faults                 256805673   253106328   253222299   249830289   251184418
Major Faults                       395         375         423         434         448
Swap Ins                            12          10          10          12           9
Swap Outs                          530         537         487         455         415
Direct pages scanned             71859       86046      153244      152764      190713
Kswapd pages scanned           1900994     1870240     1898012     1892864     1880520
Kswapd pages reclaimed         1897814     1867428     1894939     1890125     1877924
Direct pages reclaimed           71766       85908      153167      152643      190600
Kswapd efficiency                  99%         99%         99%         99%         99%
Kswapd velocity               1029.000    1067.782    1000.091     991.049     951.218
Direct efficiency                  99%         99%         99%         99%         99%
Direct velocity                 38.897      49.127      80.747      79.983      96.468
Percentage direct scans             3%          4%          7%          7%          9%
Zone normal velocity           351.377     372.494     348.910     341.689     335.310
Zone dma32 velocity            716.520     744.414     731.928     729.343     712.377
Zone dma velocity                0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000
Page writes by reclaim         669.300     604.000     545.700     538.900     429.900
Page writes file                   138          66          58          83          14
Page writes anon                   530         537         487         455         415
Page reclaim immediate             806         655         772         548         517
Sector Reads                   2711956     2703239     2811602     2818248     2839459
Sector Writes                 12163238    12018662    12038248    11954736    11994892
Page rescued immediate               0           0           0           0           0
Slabs scanned                  1385088     1388364     1507968     1513292     1558656
Direct inode steals               1739        2564        4622        5496        6007
Kswapd inode steals              47461       46406       47804       48013       48466
Kswapd skipped wait                  0           0           0           0           0
THP fault alloc                    110          82          84          69          70
THP collapse alloc                 445         482         467         462         539
THP splits                           6           5           4           5           3
THP fault fallback                   3           0           0           0           0
THP collapse fail                   15          14          14          14          13
Compaction stalls                  659         685        1033        1073        1111
Compaction success                 222         225         410         427         456
Compaction failures                436         460         622         646         655
Page migrate success            446594      439978     1085640     1095062     1131716
Page migrate failure                 0           0           0           0           0
Compaction pages isolated      1029475     1013490     2453074     2482698     2565400
Compaction migrate scanned     9955461    11344259    24375202    27978356    30494204
Compaction free scanned       27715272    28544654    80150615    82898631    85756132
Compaction cost                    552         555        1344        1379        1436
NUMA PTE updates                     0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint faults                     0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint local faults               0           0           0           0           0
NUMA hint local percent            100         100         100         100         100
NUMA pages migrated                  0           0           0           0           0
AutoNUMA cost                        0           0           0           0           0

There are some differences from the previous results for THP-like allocations:

- Here, the bad result for unpatched kernel in phase 3 is much more
  consistent to be between 65-70% and not related to the "regression" in
  3.12.  Still there is the improvement from patch 4 onwards, which brings
  it on par with simple GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE allocations.

- Compaction costs have increased, but nowhere near as much as the
  non-THP case.  Again, the patches should be worth the gained
  determininsm.

- Patches 5 and 6 somewhat increase the number of migrate-scanned pages.
   This is most likely due to __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag, which means the cached
  pfn's and pageblock skip bits are not reset by kswapd that often (at
  least in phase 3 where no concurrent activity would wake up kswapd) and
  the patches thus help the sync-after-async compaction.  It doesn't
  however show that the sync compaction would help so much with success
  rates, which can be again seen as a limitation of the benchmark
  scenario.

This patch (of 6):

Add two tracepoints for compaction begin and end of a zone.  Using this it
is possible to calculate how much time a workload is spending within
compaction and potentially debug problems related to cached pfns for
scanning.  In combination with the direct reclaim and slab trace points it
should be possible to estimate most allocation-related overhead for a
workload.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0eb927c0
  11. 19 12月, 2013 1 次提交
  13. 13 11月, 2013 1 次提交
  15. 01 10月, 2013 1 次提交
  17. 12 9月, 2013 1 次提交
  19. 24 2月, 2013 5 次提交
  21. 12 1月, 2013 3 次提交
    • M
      mm: compaction: partially revert capture of suitable high-order page · 8fb74b9f
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Eric Wong reported on 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 that ppoll() got stuck when
waiting for POLLIN on a local TCP socket.  It was easier to trigger if
there was disk IO and dirty pages at the same time and he bisected it to
commit 1fb3f8ca ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page
immediately when it is made available").

The intention of that patch was to improve high-order allocations under
memory pressure after changes made to reclaim in 3.6 drastically hurt
THP allocations but the approach was flawed.  For Eric, the problem was
that page->pfmemalloc was not being cleared for captured pages leading
to a poor interaction with swap-over-NFS support causing the packets to
be dropped.  However, I identified a few more problems with the patch
including the fact that it can increase contention on zone->lock in some
cases which could result in async direct compaction being aborted early.

In retrospect the capture patch took the wrong approach.  What it should
have done is mark the pageblock being migrated as MIGRATE_ISOLATE if it
was allocating for THP and avoided races that way.  While the patch was
showing to improve allocation success rates at the time, the benefit is
marginal given the relative complexity and it should be revisited from
scratch in the context of the other reclaim-related changes that have
taken place since the patch was first written and tested.  This patch
partially reverts commit 1fb3f8ca ("mm: compaction: capture a
suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available").
Reported-and-tested-by: NEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Tested-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8fb74b9f
    • J
      mm: compaction: fix echo 1 > compact_memory return error issue · 7964c06d
      由 Jason Liu 提交于 
      when run the folloing command under shell, it will return error

  sh/$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
  sh/$ sh: write error: Bad address

After strace, I found the following log:

  ...
  write(1, "1\n", 2)               = 3
  write(1, "", 4294967295)         = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
  write(2, "echo: write error: Bad address\n", 31echo: write error: Bad address
  ) = 31

This tells system return 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE) after write data to
compact_memory.

The fix is to make the system just return 0 instead 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE)
from sysctl_compaction_handler after compaction_nodes finished.
Signed-off-by: NJason Liu <r64343@freescale.com>
Suggested-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7964c06d
    • M
      mm: compaction: Partially revert capture of suitable high-order page · 47ecfcb7
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Eric Wong reported on 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 that ppoll() got stuck when
waiting for POLLIN on a local TCP socket.  It was easier to trigger if
there was disk IO and dirty pages at the same time and he bisected it to
commit 1fb3f8ca ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page
immediately when it is made available").

The intention of that patch was to improve high-order allocations under
memory pressure after changes made to reclaim in 3.6 drastically hurt
THP allocations but the approach was flawed.  For Eric, the problem was
that page->pfmemalloc was not being cleared for captured pages leading
to a poor interaction with swap-over-NFS support causing the packets to
be dropped.  However, I identified a few more problems with the patch
including the fact that it can increase contention on zone->lock in some
cases which could result in async direct compaction being aborted early.

In retrospect the capture patch took the wrong approach.  What it should
have done is mark the pageblock being migrated as MIGRATE_ISOLATE if it
was allocating for THP and avoided races that way.  While the patch was
showing to improve allocation success rates at the time, the benefit is
marginal given the relative complexity and it should be revisited from
scratch in the context of the other reclaim-related changes that have
taken place since the patch was first written and tested.  This patch
partially reverts commit 1fb3f8ca "mm: compaction: capture a suitable
high-order page immediately when it is made available".
Reported-and-tested-by: NEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Tested-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      47ecfcb7
  23. 21 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  25. 13 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  27. 12 12月, 2012 2 次提交
    • R
      mm: introduce putback_movable_pages() · 5733c7d1
      由 Rafael Aquini 提交于 
      The PATCH "mm: introduce compaction and migration for virtio ballooned pages"
hacks around putback_lru_pages() in order to allow ballooned pages to be
re-inserted on balloon page list as if a ballooned page was like a LRU page.

As ballooned pages are not legitimate LRU pages, this patch introduces
putback_movable_pages() to properly cope with cases where the isolated
pageset contains ballooned pages and LRU pages, thus fixing the mentioned
inelegant hack around putback_lru_pages().
Signed-off-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5733c7d1
    • R
      mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages · bf6bddf1
      由 Rafael Aquini 提交于 
      Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces the helper functions as well as the necessary changes
to teach compaction and migration bits how to cope with pages which are
part of a guest memory balloon, in order to make them movable by memory
compaction procedures.
Signed-off-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bf6bddf1
  29. 11 12月, 2012 3 次提交
    • M
      mm: compaction: Add scanned and isolated counters for compaction · 397487db
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Compaction already has tracepoints to count scanned and isolated pages
but it requires that ftrace be enabled and if that information has to be
written to disk then it can be disruptive. This patch adds vmstat counters
for compaction called compact_migrate_scanned, compact_free_scanned and
compact_isolated.

With these counters, it is possible to define a basic cost model for
compaction. This approximates of how much work compaction is doing and can
be compared that with an oprofile showing TLB misses and see if the cost of
compaction is being offset by THP for example. Minimally a compaction patch
can be evaluated in terms of whether it increases or decreases cost. The
basic cost model looks like this

Fundamental unit u:	a word	sizeof(void *)

Ca  = cost of struct page access = sizeof(struct page) / u

Cmc = Cost migrate page copy = (Ca + PAGE_SIZE/u) * 2
Cmf = Cost migrate failure   = Ca * 2
Ci  = Cost page isolation    = (Ca + Wi)
	where Wi is a constant that should reflect the approximate
	cost of the locking operation.

Csm = Cost migrate scanning = Ca
Csf = Cost free    scanning = Ca

Overall cost =	(Csm * compact_migrate_scanned) +
	      	(Csf * compact_free_scanned)    +
	      	(Ci  * compact_isolated)	+
		(Cmc * pgmigrate_success)	+
		(Cmf * pgmigrate_failed)

Where the values are read from /proc/vmstat.

This is very basic and ignores certain costs such as the allocation cost
to do a migrate page copy but any improvement to the model would still
use the same vmstat counters.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      397487db
    • M
      mm: migrate: Add a tracepoint for migrate_pages · 7b2a2d4a
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      The pgmigrate_success and pgmigrate_fail vmstat counters tells the user
about migration activity but not the type or the reason. This patch adds
a tracepoint to identify the type of page migration and why the page is
being migrated.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      7b2a2d4a
    • M
      mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success stats to migrate.c · 5647bc29
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      The compact_pages_moved and compact_pagemigrate_failed events are
convenient for determining if compaction is active and to what
degree migration is succeeding but it's at the wrong level. Other
users of migration may also want to know if migration is working
properly and this will be particularly true for any automated
NUMA migration. This patch moves the counters down to migration
with the new events called pgmigrate_success and pgmigrate_fail.
The compact_blocks_moved counter is removed because while it was
useful for debugging initially, it's worthless now as no meaningful
conclusions can be drawn from its value.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      5647bc29
  31. 07 12月, 2012 1 次提交
    • M
      mm: compaction: validate pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block · 60177d31
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Commit 0bf380bc ("mm: compaction: check pfn_valid when entering a
new MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block during isolation for migration") added a
check for pfn_valid() when isolating pages for migration as the scanner
does not necessarily start pageblock-aligned.

Since commit c89511ab ("mm: compaction: Restart compaction from near
where it left off"), the free scanner has the same problem.  This patch
makes sure that the pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block() is
within the same block so that pfn_valid() checks are unnecessary.

In answer to Henrik's wondering why others have not reported this:
reproducing this requires a large enough hole with the right aligment to
have compaction walk into a PFN range with no memmap.  Size and
alignment depends in the memory model - 4M for FLATMEM and 128M for
SPARSEMEM on x86.  It needs a "lucky" machine.
Reported-by: NHenrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      60177d31
  33. 20 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  35. 09 10月, 2012 2 次提交
    • M
      CMA: migrate mlocked pages · e46a2879
      由 Minchan Kim 提交于 
      Presently CMA cannot migrate mlocked pages so it ends up failing to allocate
contiguous memory space.

This patch makes mlocked pages be migrated out.  Of course, it can affect
realtime processes but in CMA usecase, contiguous memory allocation failing
is far worse than access latency to an mlocked page being variable while
CMA is running.  If someone wants to make the system realtime, he shouldn't
enable CMA because stalls can still happen at random times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, per Mel]
Signed-off-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e46a2879
    • M
      mm: compaction: clear PG_migrate_skip based on compaction and reclaim activity · 62997027
      由 Mel Gorman 提交于 
      Compaction caches if a pageblock was scanned and no pages were isolated so
that the pageblocks can be skipped in the future to reduce scanning.  This
information is not cleared by the page allocator based on activity due to
the impact it would have to the page allocator fast paths.  Hence there is
a requirement that something clear the cache or pageblocks will be skipped
forever.  Currently the cache is cleared if there were a number of recent
allocation failures and it has not been cleared within the last 5 seconds.
Time-based decisions like this are terrible as they have no relationship
to VM activity and is basically a big hammer.

Unfortunately, accurate heuristics would add cost to some hot paths so
this patch implements a rough heuristic.  There are two cases where the
cache is cleared.

1. If a !kswapd process completes a compaction cycle (migrate and free
   scanner meet), the zone is marked compact_blockskip_flush. When kswapd
   goes to sleep, it will clear the cache. This is expected to be the
   common case where the cache is cleared. It does not really matter if
   kswapd happens to be asleep or going to sleep when the flag is set as
   it will be woken on the next allocation request.

2. If there have been multiple failures recently and compaction just
   finished being deferred then a process will clear the cache and start a
   full scan.  This situation happens if there are multiple high-order
   allocation requests under heavy memory pressure.

The clearing of the PG_migrate_skip bits and other scans is inherently
racy but the race is harmless.  For allocations that can fail such as THP,
they will simply fail.  For requests that cannot fail, they will retry the
allocation.  Tests indicated that scanning rates were roughly similar to
when the time-based heuristic was used and the allocation success rates
were similar.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      62997027