From 50b5b094e683f8e51e82c6dfe97b1608cf97e6c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:51:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction Compaction temporarily marks pageblocks where it fails to isolate pages as to-be-skipped in further compactions, in order to improve efficiency. One of the reasons to fail isolating pages is that isolation is not attempted in pageblocks that are not of MIGRATE_MOVABLE (or CMA) type. The problem is that blocks skipped due to not being MIGRATE_MOVABLE in async compaction become skipped due to the temporary mark also in future sync compaction. Moreover, this may follow quite soon during __alloc_page_slowpath, without much time for kswapd to clear the pageblock skip marks. This goes against the idea that sync compaction should try to scan these blocks more thoroughly than the async compaction. The fix is to ensure in async compaction that these !MIGRATE_MOVABLE blocks are not marked to be skipped. Note this should not affect performance or locking impact of further async compactions, as skipping a block due to being !MIGRATE_MOVABLE is done soon after skipping a block marked to be skipped, both without locking. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index cc46db36e708..32a033cb5c65 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long flags; bool locked = false; struct page *page = NULL, *valid_page = NULL; + bool skipped_async_unsuitable = false; /* * Ensure that there are not too many pages isolated from the LRU @@ -534,6 +535,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc, if (!cc->sync && last_pageblock_nr != pageblock_nr && !migrate_async_suitable(get_pageblock_migratetype(page))) { cc->finished_update_migrate = true; + skipped_async_unsuitable = true; goto next_pageblock; } @@ -627,8 +629,13 @@ next_pageblock: if (locked) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags); - /* Update the pageblock-skip if the whole pageblock was scanned */ - if (low_pfn == end_pfn) + /* + * Update the pageblock-skip information and cached scanner pfn, + * if the whole pageblock was scanned without isolating any page. + * This is not done when pageblock was skipped due to being unsuitable + * for async compaction, so that eventual sync compaction can try. + */ + if (low_pfn == end_pfn && !skipped_async_unsuitable) update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, nr_isolated, true); trace_mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages(nr_scanned, nr_isolated); -- 2.20.1