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Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] mm, compaction: require only min watermarks for non-costly orders

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On Tue 31-05-16 15:08:16, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The __compaction_suitable() function checks the low watermark plus a
> compact_gap() gap to decide if there's enough free memory to perform
> compaction. Then __isolate_free_page uses low watermark check to decide if
> particular free page can be isolated. In the latter case, using low watermark
> is needlessly pessimistic, as the free page isolations are only temporary. For
> __compaction_suitable() the higher watermark makes sense for high-order
> allocations where more freepages increase the chance of success, and we can
> typically fail with some order-0 fallback when the system is struggling to
> reach that watermark. But for low-order allocation, forming the page should not
> be that hard. So using low watermark here might just prevent compaction from
> even trying, and eventually lead to OOM killer even if we are above min
> watermarks.
> 
> So after this patch, we use min watermark for non-costly orders in
> __compaction_suitable(), and for all orders in __isolate_free_page().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
>  mm/compaction.c | 6 +++++-
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 4ffa0870192b..d854519a5302 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -1345,10 +1345,14 @@ static enum compact_result __compaction_suitable(struct zone *zone, int order,
>  	 * isolation. We however do use the direct compactor's classzone_idx to
>  	 * skip over zones where lowmem reserves would prevent allocation even
>  	 * if compaction succeeds.
> +	 * For costly orders, we require low watermark instead of min for
> +	 * compaction to proceed to increase its chances.
>  	 * ALLOC_CMA is used, as pages in CMA pageblocks are considered
>  	 * suitable migration targets
>  	 */
> -	watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + compact_gap(order);
> +	watermark = (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) ?
> +				low_wmark_pages(zone) : min_wmark_pages(zone);
> +	watermark += compact_gap(order);
>  	if (!__zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, classzone_idx,
>  						ALLOC_CMA, wmark_target))
>  		return COMPACT_SKIPPED;
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 09dc9db8a7e9..5b4c9e567fc1 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@ int __isolate_free_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>  
>  	if (!is_migrate_isolate(mt)) {
>  		/* Obey watermarks as if the page was being allocated */
> -		watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + (1 << order);
> +		watermark = min_wmark_pages(zone) + (1UL << order);
>  		if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, ALLOC_CMA))
>  			return 0;
>  
> -- 
> 2.8.3

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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  [PATCH v2 14/18] mm, compaction: create compact_gap wrapper Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-31 15:10 +0200
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  [PATCH v2 03/18] mm, page_alloc: don't retry initial attempt in slowpath Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-31 15:20 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v2 13/18] mm, compaction: use correct watermark when  checking allocation success Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-01 16:00 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH v2 16/18] mm, compaction: require only min watermarks for  non-costly orders Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-01 16:10 +0200
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