linux/mm
Vlastimil Babka ebff398017 mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking
Compaction relies on zone watermark checks for decisions such as if it's
worth to start compacting in compaction_suitable() or whether compaction
should stop in compact_finished().  The watermark checks take
classzone_idx and alloc_flags parameters, which are related to the memory
allocation request.  But from the context of compaction they are currently
passed as 0, including the direct compaction which is invoked to satisfy
the allocation request, and could therefore know the proper values.

The lack of proper values can lead to mismatch between decisions taken
during compaction and decisions related to the allocation request.  Lack
of proper classzone_idx value means that lowmem_reserve is not taken into
account.  This has manifested (during recent changes to deferred
compaction) when DMA zone was used as fallback for preferred Normal zone.
compaction_suitable() without proper classzone_idx would think that the
watermarks are already satisfied, but watermark check in
get_page_from_freelist() would fail.  Because of this problem, deferring
compaction has extra complexity that can be removed in the following
patch.

The issue (not confirmed in practice) with missing alloc_flags is opposite
in nature.  For allocations that include ALLOC_HIGH, ALLOC_HIGHER or
ALLOC_CMA in alloc_flags (the last includes all MOVABLE allocations on
CMA-enabled systems) the watermark checking in compaction with 0 passed
will be stricter than in get_page_from_freelist().  In these cases
compaction might be running for a longer time than is really needed.

Another issue compaction_suitable() is that the check for "does the zone
need compaction at all?" comes only after the check "does the zone have
enough free free pages to succeed compaction".  The latter considers extra
pages for migration and can therefore in some situations fail and return
COMPACT_SKIPPED, although the high-order allocation would succeed and we
should return COMPACT_PARTIAL.

This patch fixes these problems by adding alloc_flags and classzone_idx to
struct compact_control and related functions involved in direct compaction
and watermark checking.  Where possible, all other callers of
compaction_suitable() pass proper values where those are known.  This is
currently limited to classzone_idx, which is sometimes known in kswapd
context.  However, the direct reclaim callers should_continue_reclaim()
and compaction_ready() do not currently know the proper values, so the
coordination between reclaim and compaction may still not be as accurate
as it could.  This can be fixed later, if it's shown to be an issue.

Additionaly the checks in compact_suitable() are reordered to address the
second issue described above.

The effect of this patch should be slightly better high-order allocation
success rates and/or less compaction overhead, depending on the type of
allocations and presence of CMA.  It allows simplifying deferred
compaction code in a followup patch.

When testing with stress-highalloc, there was some slight improvement
(which might be just due to variance) in success rates of non-THP-like
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2014-12-10 17:41:06 -08:00
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backing-dev.c Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-10-18 11:53:51 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled 2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
bootmem.c mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
cma.c mm/CMA: fix boot regression due to physical address of high_memory 2014-12-10 17:41:02 -08:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking 2014-12-10 17:41:06 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
debug.c mm/debug.c: use pr_emerg() 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: fixed a brace coding style issue 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c mm/filemap.c: remove trailing whitespace 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
fremap.c mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
frontswap.c mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
gup.c mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast() 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise 2014-10-29 16:33:14 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: hugetlb_cgroup: convert to lockless page counters 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm: convert a few VM_BUG_ON callers to VM_BUG_ON_VMA 2014-10-09 22:25:57 -04:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking 2014-12-10 17:41:06 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm: convert a few VM_BUG_ON callers to VM_BUG_ON_VMA 2014-10-09 22:25:57 -04:00
iov_iter.c Fix thinko in iov_iter_single_seg_count 2014-11-13 13:28:55 -05:00
Kconfig mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
ksm.c mm: ksm use pr_err instead of printk 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: update the description for madvise_remove 2014-08-06 18:01:18 -07:00
Makefile mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
memblock.c mem-hotplug: let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range() 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: remove synchronous stock draining code 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug/failure: drain single zone pcplists 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm, memory_hotplug/failure: drain single zone pcplists 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
memory.c arm64 updates for 3.19 2014-12-09 13:12:47 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: skip inaccessible VMAs when setting MPOL_MF_LAZY 2014-10-09 22:26:02 -04:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
migrate.c mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 15:44:12 +02:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 09:34:43 -08:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c kvm: Fix page ageing bugs 2014-09-24 14:07:58 +02:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared 2014-10-14 02:18:28 +02:00
mremap.c mm/mremap.c: use linux headers 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
msync.c msync: fix incorrect fstart calculation 2014-07-03 09:21:53 -07:00
nobootmem.c mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
nommu.c percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init() 2014-09-08 09:51:29 +09:00
oom_kill.c OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend 2014-10-21 23:44:21 +02:00
page_alloc.c mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking 2014-12-10 17:41:06 -08:00
page_cgroup.c cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup deallocations. 2014-10-29 16:33:13 -07:00
page_counter.c mm: memcontrol: remove obsolete kmemcg pinning tricks 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
page_io.c fix __swap_writepage() compile failure on old gcc versions 2014-06-14 19:30:48 -05:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_isolation: drain single zone pcplists 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback page accounting 2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: use VM_BUG_ON_MM where possible 2014-10-09 22:25:58 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated 2014-09-02 14:46:05 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() 2014-09-02 14:46:02 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator 2014-10-08 12:01:52 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: actually clear pmd_numa before invalidating 2014-08-29 16:28:15 -07:00
process_vm_access.c start adding the tag to iov_iter 2014-05-06 17:32:49 -04:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: remove unused file_ra_state from count_history_pages 2014-08-06 18:01:15 -07:00
rmap.c mm: fix anon_vma_clone() error treatment 2014-12-03 09:36:04 -08:00
shmem.c shmem: support RENAME_WHITEOUT 2014-10-24 00:14:37 +02:00
slab_common.c mm/slab: reverse iteration on find_mergeable() 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slab.c slab: improve checking for invalid gfp_flags 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slab.h slab: replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slob.c mm/sl[ao]b: always track caller in kmalloc_(node_)track_caller() 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
slub.c slab: improve checking for invalid gfp_flags 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
swap.c mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
swapfile.c mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API 2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Fix comment before truncate_setsize() 2014-11-07 08:29:25 +11:00
util.c proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: replace printk with pr_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:05 -08:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn() 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
vmscan.c mm, compaction: pass classzone_idx and alloc_flags to watermark checking 2014-12-10 17:41:06 -08:00
vmstat.c vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers V8 2014-10-09 22:26:02 -04:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist 2014-10-09 22:26:03 -04:00
zpool.c mm/zpool: use prefixed module loading 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking 2014-10-09 22:26:03 -04:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: add __init to zswap_entry_cache_destroy() 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00