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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2015-02-11 15:27:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:04 -0800
commit24e2716f63e613cf15d3beba3faa0711bcacc427 (patch)
tree7ab8b73ff2977b76e4a3486730614999ea42e4d3 /mm/compaction.c
parent837d026d560c5ef26abeca0441713d82e4e82cad (diff)
downloadlinux-24e2716f63e613cf15d3beba3faa0711bcacc427.tar.bz2
mm/compaction: add tracepoint to observe behaviour of compaction defer
Compaction deferring logic is heavy hammer that block the way to the compaction. It doesn't consider overall system state, so it could prevent user from doing compaction falsely. In other words, even if system has enough range of memory to compact, compaction would be skipped due to compaction deferring logic. This patch add new tracepoint to understand work of deferring logic. This will also help to check compaction success and fail. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
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1 files changed, 71 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index b6ede459c1bb..b68736c8a1ce 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -124,6 +124,77 @@ static struct page *pageblock_pfn_to_page(unsigned long start_pfn,
}
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
+
+/* Do not skip compaction more than 64 times */
+#define COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT 6
+
+/*
+ * Compaction is deferred when compaction fails to result in a page
+ * allocation success. 1 << compact_defer_limit compactions are skipped up
+ * to a limit of 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT
+ */
+void defer_compaction(struct zone *zone, int order)
+{
+ zone->compact_considered = 0;
+ zone->compact_defer_shift++;
+
+ if (order < zone->compact_order_failed)
+ zone->compact_order_failed = order;
+
+ if (zone->compact_defer_shift > COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT)
+ zone->compact_defer_shift = COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT;
+
+ trace_mm_compaction_defer_compaction(zone, order);
+}
+
+/* Returns true if compaction should be skipped this time */
+bool compaction_deferred(struct zone *zone, int order)
+{
+ unsigned long defer_limit = 1UL << zone->compact_defer_shift;
+
+ if (order < zone->compact_order_failed)
+ return false;
+
+ /* Avoid possible overflow */
+ if (++zone->compact_considered > defer_limit)
+ zone->compact_considered = defer_limit;
+
+ if (zone->compact_considered >= defer_limit)
+ return false;
+
+ trace_mm_compaction_deferred(zone, order);
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Update defer tracking counters after successful compaction of given order,
+ * which means an allocation either succeeded (alloc_success == true) or is
+ * expected to succeed.
+ */
+void compaction_defer_reset(struct zone *zone, int order,
+ bool alloc_success)
+{
+ if (alloc_success) {
+ zone->compact_considered = 0;
+ zone->compact_defer_shift = 0;
+ }
+ if (order >= zone->compact_order_failed)
+ zone->compact_order_failed = order + 1;
+
+ trace_mm_compaction_defer_reset(zone, order);
+}
+
+/* Returns true if restarting compaction after many failures */
+bool compaction_restarting(struct zone *zone, int order)
+{
+ if (order < zone->compact_order_failed)
+ return false;
+
+ return zone->compact_defer_shift == COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT &&
+ zone->compact_considered >= 1UL << zone->compact_defer_shift;
+}
+
/* Returns true if the pageblock should be scanned for pages to isolate. */
static inline bool isolation_suitable(struct compact_control *cc,
struct page *page)