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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2017-02-24 14:56:32 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -0800 |
commit | 0ccce3b924212e121503619df97cc0f17189b77b (patch) | |
tree | 8f365e995db4d0dd9cc0735750376c8866f279ba /mm | |
parent | 9cd7555875bb09dad875e89a76f41f576e11c638 (diff) | |
download | linux-0ccce3b924212e121503619df97cc0f17189b77b.tar.bz2 |
mm, page_alloc: drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context
The per-cpu page allocator can be drained immediately via
drain_all_pages() which sends IPIs to every CPU. In the next patch, the
per-cpu allocator will only be used for interrupt-safe allocations which
prevents draining it from IPI context. This patch uses workqueues to
drain the per-cpu lists instead.
This is slower but no slowdown during intensive reclaim was measured and
the paths that use drain_all_pages() are not that sensitive to
performance. This is particularly true as the path would only be
triggered when reclaim is failing. It also makes a some sense to avoid
storming a machine with IPIs when it's under memory pressure. Arguably,
it should be further adjusted so that only one caller at a time is
draining pages but it's beyond the scope of the current patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 44 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 678b2882faaa..610a3db680ae 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2339,19 +2339,21 @@ void drain_local_pages(struct zone *zone) drain_pages(cpu); } +static void drain_local_pages_wq(struct work_struct *work) +{ + drain_local_pages(NULL); +} + /* * Spill all the per-cpu pages from all CPUs back into the buddy allocator. * * When zone parameter is non-NULL, spill just the single zone's pages. * - * Note that this code is protected against sending an IPI to an offline - * CPU but does not guarantee sending an IPI to newly hotplugged CPUs: - * on_each_cpu_mask() blocks hotplug and won't talk to offlined CPUs but - * nothing keeps CPUs from showing up after we populated the cpumask and - * before the call to on_each_cpu_mask(). + * Note that this can be extremely slow as the draining happens in a workqueue. */ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone) { + struct work_struct __percpu *works; int cpu; /* @@ -2360,6 +2362,17 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone) */ static cpumask_t cpus_with_pcps; + /* Workqueues cannot recurse */ + if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) + return; + + /* + * As this can be called from reclaim context, do not reenter reclaim. + * An allocation failure can be handled, it's simply slower + */ + get_online_cpus(); + works = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct work_struct, GFP_ATOMIC); + /* * We don't care about racing with CPU hotplug event * as offline notification will cause the notified @@ -2390,8 +2403,25 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone) else cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps); } - on_each_cpu_mask(&cpus_with_pcps, (smp_call_func_t) drain_local_pages, - zone, 1); + + if (works) { + for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps) { + struct work_struct *work = per_cpu_ptr(works, cpu); + INIT_WORK(work, drain_local_pages_wq); + schedule_work_on(cpu, work); + } + for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps) + flush_work(per_cpu_ptr(works, cpu)); + } else { + for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps) { + struct work_struct work; + + INIT_WORK(&work, drain_local_pages_wq); + schedule_work_on(cpu, &work); + flush_work(&work); + } + } + put_online_cpus(); } #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION |