Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Mel Gorman Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm, compaction: always skip compound pages by order in migrate scanner Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Vlastimil Babka MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: robomod@news.nic.it List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 34 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim , Michal Nazarewicz , Naoya Horiguchi , Christoph Lameter , Rik van Riel , David Rientjes X-Original-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:58:20 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20150619135820.GC11809@suse.de> X-Original-References: <1433928754-966-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> <1433928754-966-5-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Xref: aioe.org linux.kernel:1168792 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > The compaction migrate scanner tries to skip compound pages by their order, to > reduce number of iterations for pages it cannot isolate. The check is only done > if PageLRU() is true, which means it applies to THP pages, but not e.g. > hugetlbfs pages or any other non-LRU compound pages, which we have to iterate > by base pages. > > This limitation comes from the assumption that it's only safe to read > compound_order() when we have the zone's lru_lock and THP cannot be split under > us. But the only danger (after filtering out order values that are not below > MAX_ORDER, to prevent overflows) is that we skip too much or too little after > reading a bogus compound_order() due to a rare race. This is the same reasoning > as patch 99c0fd5e51c4 ("mm, compaction: skip buddy pages by their order in the > migrate scanner") introduced for unsafely reading PageBuddy() order. > > After this patch, all pages are tested for PageCompound() and we skip them by > compound_order(). The test is done after the test for balloon_page_movable() > as we don't want to assume if balloon pages (or other pages with own isolation > and migration implementation if a generic API gets implemented) are compound > or not. > > When tested with stress-highalloc from mmtests on 4GB system with 1GB hugetlbfs > pages, the vmstat compact_migrate_scanned count decreased by 15%. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Mel Gorman -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/