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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:47:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:46 -0800
commit5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 (patch)
tree31f0e8efb86d48b0292f8a7ea4bd9cf7c930a0ab /mm
parent878aee7d6b5504e01b9caffce080e792b6b8d090 (diff)
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thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0
This takes advantage of memory compaction to properly generate pages of order > 0 if regular page reclaim fails and priority level becomes more severe and we don't reach the proper watermarks. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c31
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c30
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index da25b5a..60d52a7 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct compact_control {
unsigned int order; /* order a direct compactor needs */
int migratetype; /* MOVABLE, RECLAIMABLE etc */
struct zone *zone;
+
+ int compact_mode;
};
static unsigned long release_freepages(struct list_head *freelist)
@@ -382,10 +384,10 @@ static void update_nr_listpages(struct compact_control *cc)
}
static int compact_finished(struct zone *zone,
- struct compact_control *cc)
+ struct compact_control *cc)
{
unsigned int order;
- unsigned long watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + (1 << cc->order);
+ unsigned long watermark;
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
return COMPACT_PARTIAL;
@@ -395,12 +397,27 @@ static int compact_finished(struct zone *zone,
return COMPACT_COMPLETE;
/* Compaction run is not finished if the watermark is not met */
+ if (cc->compact_mode != COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD)
+ watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone);
+ else
+ watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone);
+ watermark += (1 << cc->order);
+
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, cc->order, watermark, 0, 0))
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
if (cc->order == -1)
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
+ /*
+ * Generating only one page of the right order is not enough
+ * for kswapd, we must continue until we're above the high
+ * watermark as a pool for high order GFP_ATOMIC allocations
+ * too.
+ */
+ if (cc->compact_mode == COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD)
+ return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
+
/* Direct compactor: Is a suitable page free? */
for (order = cc->order; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
/* Job done if page is free of the right migratetype */
@@ -514,8 +531,9 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
}
unsigned long compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone,
- int order, gfp_t gfp_mask,
- bool sync)
+ int order, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ bool sync,
+ int compact_mode)
{
struct compact_control cc = {
.nr_freepages = 0,
@@ -524,6 +542,7 @@ unsigned long compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone,
.migratetype = allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask),
.zone = zone,
.sync = sync,
+ .compact_mode = compact_mode,
};
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
@@ -569,7 +588,8 @@ unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
nodemask) {
int status;
- status = compact_zone_order(zone, order, gfp_mask, sync);
+ status = compact_zone_order(zone, order, gfp_mask, sync,
+ COMPACT_MODE_DIRECT_RECLAIM);
rc = max(status, rc);
/* If a normal allocation would succeed, stop compacting */
@@ -600,6 +620,7 @@ static int compact_node(int nid)
.nr_freepages = 0,
.nr_migratepages = 0,
.order = -1,
+ .compact_mode = COMPACT_MODE_DIRECT_RECLAIM,
};
zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid];
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index cfdef0b..f5b762a 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/compaction.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -2382,6 +2383,7 @@ loop_again:
* cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
*/
for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
+ int compaction;
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
int nr_slab;
@@ -2411,9 +2413,26 @@ loop_again:
lru_pages);
sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
+
+ compaction = 0;
+ if (order &&
+ zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0,
+ high_wmark_pages(zone),
+ end_zone, 0) &&
+ !zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
+ high_wmark_pages(zone),
+ end_zone, 0)) {
+ compact_zone_order(zone,
+ order,
+ sc.gfp_mask, false,
+ COMPACT_MODE_KSWAPD);
+ compaction = 1;
+ }
+
if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
continue;
- if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone))
+ if (!compaction && nr_slab == 0 &&
+ !zone_reclaimable(zone))
zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
/*
* If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
@@ -2424,15 +2443,6 @@ loop_again:
total_scanned > sc.nr_reclaimed + sc.nr_reclaimed / 2)
sc.may_writepage = 1;
- /*
- * Compact the zone for higher orders to reduce
- * latencies for higher-order allocations that
- * would ordinarily call try_to_compact_pages()
- */
- if (sc.order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
- compact_zone_order(zone, sc.order, sc.gfp_mask,
- false);
-
if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order,
high_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0)) {
all_zones_ok = 0;
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