Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935679Ab3DILUb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:20:31 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50268 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932892Ab3DILSE (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:18:04 -0400 From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jiri Slaby , Valdis Kletnieks , Rik van Riel , Zlatko Calusic , Johannes Weiner , dormando , Satoru Moriya , Michal Hocko , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:06:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1365505625-9460-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1365505625-9460-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1365505625-9460-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6490 Lines: 192 kswapd stops raising the scanning priority when at least SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed or the pgdat is considered balanced. It then rechecks if it needs to restart at DEF_PRIORITY and whether high-order reclaim needs to be reset. This is not wrong per-se but it is confusing to follow and forcing kswapd to stay at DEF_PRIORITY may require several restarts before it has scanned enough pages to meet the high watermark even at 100% efficiency. This patch irons out the logic a bit by controlling when priority is raised and removing the "goto loop_again". This patch has kswapd raise the scanning priority until it is scanning enough pages that it could meet the high watermark in one shrink of the LRU lists if it is able to reclaim at 100% efficiency. It will not raise the scanning prioirty higher unless it is failing to reclaim any pages. To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least twice the number of pages as the allocation request. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- mm/vmscan.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 0742c45..78268ca 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2633,8 +2633,12 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining, /* * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach * the high watermark. + * + * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to + * reclaim. This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be + * raised. */ -static void kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, +static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long lru_pages) { @@ -2654,6 +2658,8 @@ static void kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; + + return sc->nr_scanned >= sc->nr_to_reclaim; } /* @@ -2680,26 +2686,25 @@ static void kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int *classzone_idx) { - bool pgdat_is_balanced = false; int i; int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */ unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed; unsigned long nr_soft_scanned; struct scan_control sc = { .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL, + .priority = DEF_PRIORITY, .may_unmap = 1, .may_swap = 1, + .may_writepage = !laptop_mode, .order = order, .target_mem_cgroup = NULL, }; -loop_again: - sc.priority = DEF_PRIORITY; - sc.nr_reclaimed = 0; - sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode; count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN); do { unsigned long lru_pages = 0; + unsigned long nr_reclaimed = sc.nr_reclaimed = 0; + bool raise_priority = true; /* * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest @@ -2741,10 +2746,8 @@ loop_again: } } - if (i < 0) { - pgdat_is_balanced = true; + if (i < 0) goto out; - } for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) { struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; @@ -2811,8 +2814,16 @@ loop_again: if ((buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) || !zone_balanced(zone, testorder, - balance_gap, end_zone)) - kswapd_shrink_zone(zone, &sc, lru_pages); + balance_gap, end_zone)) { + /* + * There should be no need to raise the + * scanning priority if enough pages are + * already being scanned that high + * watermark would be met at 100% efficiency. + */ + if (kswapd_shrink_zone(zone, &sc, lru_pages)) + raise_priority = false; + } /* * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing @@ -2847,46 +2858,29 @@ loop_again: pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait); - if (pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx)) { - pgdat_is_balanced = true; - break; /* kswapd: all done */ - } - /* - * We do this so kswapd doesn't build up large priorities for - * example when it is freeing in parallel with allocators. It - * matches the direct reclaim path behaviour in terms of impact - * on zone->*_priority. + * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced + * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the + * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still + * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to + * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a + * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact. */ - if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) - break; - } while (--sc.priority >= 0); - -out: - if (!pgdat_is_balanced) { - cond_resched(); + if (order && sc.nr_reclaimed >= 2UL << order) + order = sc.order = 0; - try_to_freeze(); + /* Check if kswapd should be suspending */ + if (try_to_freeze() || kthread_should_stop()) + break; /* - * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be - * rebalanced for high-order allocations in all zones. - * At this point, if nr_reclaimed < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, - * it means the zones have been fully scanned and are still - * not balanced. For high-order allocations, there is - * little point trying all over again as kswapd may - * infinite loop. - * - * Instead, recheck all watermarks at order-0 as they - * are the most important. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go - * back to sleep. High-order users can still perform direct - * reclaim if they wish. + * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no + * progress in reclaiming pages */ - if (sc.nr_reclaimed < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) - order = sc.order = 0; - - goto loop_again; - } + if (raise_priority || sc.nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed == 0) + sc.priority--; + } while (sc.priority >= 0 && + !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx)); /* * If kswapd was reclaiming at a higher order, it has the option of @@ -2915,6 +2909,7 @@ out: compact_pgdat(pgdat, order); } +out: /* * Return the order we were reclaiming at so prepare_kswapd_sleep() * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However, -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/