mm: compaction: Abort async compaction if locks are contended or taking too long

Jim Schutt reported a problem that pointed at compaction contending
heavily on locks.  The workload is straight-forward and in his own words;

	The systems in question have 24 SAS drives spread across 3 HBAs,
	running 24 Ceph OSD instances, one per drive.  FWIW these servers
	are dual-socket Intel 5675 Xeons w/48 GB memory.  I've got ~160
	Ceph Linux clients doing dd simultaneously to a Ceph file system
	backed by 12 of these servers.

Early in the test everything looks fine

  procs -------------------memory------------------ ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-------
   r  b       swpd       free       buff      cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs  us sy  id wa st
  31 15          0     287216        576   38606628    0    0     2  1158    2   14   1  3  95  0  0
  27 15          0     225288        576   38583384    0    0    18 2222016 203357 134876  11 56  17 15  0
  28 17          0     219256        576   38544736    0    0    11 2305932 203141 146296  11 49  23 17  0
   6 18          0     215596        576   38552872    0    0     7 2363207 215264 166502  12 45  22 20  0
  22 18          0     226984        576   38596404    0    0     3 2445741 223114 179527  12 43  23 22  0

and then it goes to pot

  procs -------------------memory------------------ ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-------
   r  b       swpd       free       buff      cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs  us sy  id wa st
  163  8          0     464308        576   36791368    0    0    11 22210  866  536   3 13  79  4  0
  207 14          0     917752        576   36181928    0    0   712 1345376 134598 47367   7 90   1  2  0
  123 12          0     685516        576   36296148    0    0   429 1386615 158494 60077   8 84   5  3  0
  123 12          0     598572        576   36333728    0    0  1107 1233281 147542 62351   7 84   5  4  0
  622  7          0     660768        576   36118264    0    0   557 1345548 151394 59353   7 85   4  3  0
  223 11          0     283960        576   36463868    0    0    46 1107160 121846 33006   6 93   1  1  0

Note that system CPU usage is very high blocks being written out has
dropped by 42%. He analysed this with perf and found

  perf record -g -a sleep 10
  perf report --sort symbol --call-graph fractal,5
    34.63%  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
            |
            |--97.30%-- isolate_freepages
            |          compaction_alloc
            |          unmap_and_move
            |          migrate_pages
            |          compact_zone
            |          compact_zone_order
            |          try_to_compact_pages
            |          __alloc_pages_direct_compact
            |          __alloc_pages_slowpath
            |          __alloc_pages_nodemask
            |          alloc_pages_vma
            |          do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
            |          handle_mm_fault
            |          do_page_fault
            |          page_fault
            |          |
            |          |--87.39%-- skb_copy_datagram_iovec
            |          |          tcp_recvmsg
            |          |          inet_recvmsg
            |          |          sock_recvmsg
            |          |          sys_recvfrom
            |          |          system_call
            |          |          __recv
            |          |          |
            |          |           --100.00%-- (nil)
            |          |
            |           --12.61%-- memcpy
             --2.70%-- [...]

There was other data but primarily it is all showing that compaction is
contended heavily on the zone->lock and zone->lru_lock.

commit [b2eef8c0: mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled
while isolating pages for migration] noted that it was possible for
migration to hold the lru_lock for an excessive amount of time. Very
broadly speaking this patch expands the concept.

This patch introduces compact_checklock_irqsave() to check if a lock
is contended or the process needs to be scheduled. If either condition
is true then async compaction is aborted and the caller is informed.
The page allocator will fail a THP allocation if compaction failed due
to contention. This patch also introduces compact_trylock_irqsave()
which will acquire the lock only if it is not contended and the process
does not need to schedule.

Reported-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>
Tested-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 07f19248acb5..c66fb875104a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
 	nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	int migratetype, bool sync_migration,
-	bool *deferred_compaction,
+	bool *contended_compaction, bool *deferred_compaction,
 	unsigned long *did_some_progress)
 {
 	struct page *page;
@@ -2117,7 +2117,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 
 	current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
 	*did_some_progress = try_to_compact_pages(zonelist, order, gfp_mask,
-						nodemask, sync_migration);
+						nodemask, sync_migration,
+						contended_compaction);
 	current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
 	if (*did_some_progress != COMPACT_SKIPPED) {
 
@@ -2163,7 +2164,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
 	nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	int migratetype, bool sync_migration,
-	bool *deferred_compaction,
+	bool *contended_compaction, bool *deferred_compaction,
 	unsigned long *did_some_progress)
 {
 	return NULL;
@@ -2336,6 +2337,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	unsigned long did_some_progress;
 	bool sync_migration = false;
 	bool deferred_compaction = false;
+	bool contended_compaction = false;
 
 	/*
 	 * In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to
@@ -2425,6 +2427,7 @@ rebalance:
 					nodemask,
 					alloc_flags, preferred_zone,
 					migratetype, sync_migration,
+					&contended_compaction,
 					&deferred_compaction,
 					&did_some_progress);
 	if (page)
@@ -2434,10 +2437,11 @@ rebalance:
 	/*
 	 * If compaction is deferred for high-order allocations, it is because
 	 * sync compaction recently failed. In this is the case and the caller
-	 * has requested the system not be heavily disrupted, fail the
-	 * allocation now instead of entering direct reclaim
+	 * requested a movable allocation that does not heavily disrupt the
+	 * system then fail the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim.
 	 */
-	if (deferred_compaction && (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
+	if ((deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) &&
+						(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD))
 		goto nopage;
 
 	/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
@@ -2508,6 +2512,7 @@ rebalance:
 					nodemask,
 					alloc_flags, preferred_zone,
 					migratetype, sync_migration,
+					&contended_compaction,
 					&deferred_compaction,
 					&did_some_progress);
 		if (page)