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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2018-04-05 16:25:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-05 21:36:27 -0700
commit5ecd9d403ad081ed2de7b118c1e96124d4e0ba6c (patch)
treed830e17c2cd45583a5c0bd593586145fdc6d6796
parent3eda69c92d4751977baf2d34e88a29d4b6affa7d (diff)
downloadlinux-5ecd9d403ad081ed2de7b118c1e96124d4e0ba6c.tar.bz2
mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed. This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high- order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for background compaction. If the zone is not below its watermarks or reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up. When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim. This allows high-order allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even when the zone has an abundance of free memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h3
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/vmscan.h17
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c32
5 files changed, 45 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl b/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl
index ba976805853a..66bfd8396877 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl
+++ b/Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ my $regex_direct_begin_default = 'order=([0-9]*) may_writepage=([0-9]*) gfp_flag
my $regex_direct_end_default = 'nr_reclaimed=([0-9]*)';
my $regex_kswapd_wake_default = 'nid=([0-9]*) order=([0-9]*)';
my $regex_kswapd_sleep_default = 'nid=([0-9]*)';
-my $regex_wakeup_kswapd_default = 'nid=([0-9]*) zid=([0-9]*) order=([0-9]*)';
+my $regex_wakeup_kswapd_default = 'nid=([0-9]*) zid=([0-9]*) order=([0-9]*) gfp_flags=([A-Z_|]*)';
my $regex_lru_isolate_default = 'isolate_mode=([0-9]*) classzone_idx=([0-9]*) order=([0-9]*) nr_requested=([0-9]*) nr_scanned=([0-9]*) nr_skipped=([0-9]*) nr_taken=([0-9]*) lru=([a-z_]*)';
my $regex_lru_shrink_inactive_default = 'nid=([0-9]*) nr_scanned=([0-9]*) nr_reclaimed=([0-9]*) nr_dirty=([0-9]*) nr_writeback=([0-9]*) nr_congested=([0-9]*) nr_immediate=([0-9]*) nr_activate=([0-9]*) nr_ref_keep=([0-9]*) nr_unmap_fail=([0-9]*) priority=([0-9]*) flags=([A-Z_|]*)';
my $regex_lru_shrink_active_default = 'lru=([A-Z_]*) nr_scanned=([0-9]*) nr_rotated=([0-9]*) priority=([0-9]*)';
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ $regex_kswapd_sleep = generate_traceevent_regex(
$regex_wakeup_kswapd = generate_traceevent_regex(
"vmscan/mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd",
$regex_wakeup_kswapd_default,
- "nid", "zid", "order");
+ "nid", "zid", "order", "gfp_flags");
$regex_lru_isolate = generate_traceevent_regex(
"vmscan/mm_vmscan_lru_isolate",
$regex_lru_isolate_default,
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 5d935411d3c4..f11ae29005f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -776,7 +776,8 @@ static inline bool is_dev_zone(const struct zone *zone)
#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
void build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat);
-void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx);
+void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
+ enum zone_type classzone_idx);
bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark,
int classzone_idx, unsigned int alloc_flags,
long free_pages);
diff --git a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
index e0b8b9173e1c..6570c5b45ba1 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
@@ -78,26 +78,29 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake,
TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd,
- TP_PROTO(int nid, int zid, int order),
+ TP_PROTO(int nid, int zid, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags),
- TP_ARGS(nid, zid, order),
+ TP_ARGS(nid, zid, order, gfp_flags),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
- __field( int, nid )
- __field( int, zid )
- __field( int, order )
+ __field( int, nid )
+ __field( int, zid )
+ __field( int, order )
+ __field( gfp_t, gfp_flags )
),
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->nid = nid;
__entry->zid = zid;
__entry->order = order;
+ __entry->gfp_flags = gfp_flags;
),
- TP_printk("nid=%d zid=%d order=%d",
+ TP_printk("nid=%d zid=%d order=%d gfp_flags=%s",
__entry->nid,
__entry->zid,
- __entry->order)
+ __entry->order,
+ show_gfp_flags(__entry->gfp_flags))
);
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin_template,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f6005b7c3446..02c1a60d7937 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3805,16 +3805,18 @@ retry:
return page;
}
-static void wake_all_kswapds(unsigned int order, const struct alloc_context *ac)
+static void wake_all_kswapds(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ const struct alloc_context *ac)
{
struct zoneref *z;
struct zone *zone;
pg_data_t *last_pgdat = NULL;
+ enum zone_type high_zoneidx = ac->high_zoneidx;
- for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist,
- ac->high_zoneidx, ac->nodemask) {
+ for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist, high_zoneidx,
+ ac->nodemask) {
if (last_pgdat != zone->zone_pgdat)
- wakeup_kswapd(zone, order, ac->high_zoneidx);
+ wakeup_kswapd(zone, gfp_mask, order, high_zoneidx);
last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
}
}
@@ -4093,7 +4095,7 @@ retry_cpuset:
goto nopage;
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
- wake_all_kswapds(order, ac);
+ wake_all_kswapds(order, gfp_mask, ac);
/*
* The adjusted alloc_flags might result in immediate success, so try
@@ -4151,7 +4153,7 @@ retry_cpuset:
retry:
/* Ensure kswapd doesn't accidentally go to sleep as long as we loop */
if (gfp_mask & __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
- wake_all_kswapds(order, ac);
+ wake_all_kswapds(order, gfp_mask, ac);
reserve_flags = __gfp_pfmemalloc_flags(gfp_mask);
if (reserve_flags)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 976be140a8ce..4390a8d5be41 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3539,16 +3539,21 @@ kswapd_try_sleep:
}
/*
- * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
+ * A zone is low on free memory or too fragmented for high-order memory. If
+ * kswapd should reclaim (direct reclaim is deferred), wake it up for the zone's
+ * pgdat. It will wake up kcompactd after reclaiming memory. If kswapd reclaim
+ * has failed or is not needed, still wake up kcompactd if only compaction is
+ * needed.
*/
-void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
+void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_flags, int order,
+ enum zone_type classzone_idx)
{
pg_data_t *pgdat;
if (!managed_zone(zone))
return;
- if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HARDWALL))
+ if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, gfp_flags))
return;
pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat,
@@ -3557,14 +3562,23 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
return;
- /* Hopeless node, leave it to direct reclaim */
- if (pgdat->kswapd_failures >= MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES)
- return;
-
- if (pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx))
+ /* Hopeless node, leave it to direct reclaim if possible */
+ if (pgdat->kswapd_failures >= MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES ||
+ pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx)) {
+ /*
+ * There may be plenty of free memory available, but it's too
+ * fragmented for high-order allocations. Wake up kcompactd
+ * and rely on compaction_suitable() to determine if it's
+ * needed. If it fails, it will defer subsequent attempts to
+ * ratelimit its work.
+ */
+ if (!(gfp_flags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
+ wakeup_kcompactd(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
return;
+ }
- trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, classzone_idx, order);
+ trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, classzone_idx, order,
+ gfp_flags);
wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
}