From 4682e89d1455d66e2536d9efb2875d61a1f1f294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:09:33 -0700 Subject: vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed commit e0c23279c9f800c403f37511484d9014ac83adec upstream. Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different situations that was addressed piecemeal over time. If compaction can proceed, shrink_zones() stops doing any work but its callers still call shrink_slab() which raises the priority and potentially sleeps. This is unnecessary and wasteful so this patch aborts direct reclaim/compaction entirely if compaction can proceed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Josh Boyer Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmscan.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index e1ae88b..b146b42 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2037,14 +2037,19 @@ restart: * * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light * scan then give up on it. + * + * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly + * high-order allocation and compaction is either ready to begin or deferred. + * This indicates to the caller that it should retry the allocation or fail. */ -static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, +static bool shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) { struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed; unsigned long nr_soft_scanned; + bool should_abort_reclaim = false; for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) { @@ -2061,19 +2066,20 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */ if (COMPACTION_BUILD) { /* - * If we already have plenty of memory - * free for compaction, don't free any - * more. Even though compaction is - * invoked for any non-zero order, - * only frequent costly order - * reclamation is disruptive enough to - * become a noticable problem, like - * transparent huge page allocations. + * If we already have plenty of memory free for + * compaction in this zone, don't free any more. + * Even though compaction is invoked for any + * non-zero order, only frequent costly order + * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a + * noticable problem, like transparent huge page + * allocations. */ if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && (compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order) || - compaction_deferred(zone))) + compaction_deferred(zone))) { + should_abort_reclaim = true; continue; + } } /* * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit @@ -2092,6 +2098,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc); } + + return should_abort_reclaim; } static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone) @@ -2156,7 +2164,9 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, sc->nr_scanned = 0; if (!priority) disable_swap_token(sc->mem_cgroup); - shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc); + if (shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc)) + break; + /* * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from * over limit cgroups -- cgit v1.1