Re: [PATCH] mm: optimization on page allocation when CMA enabled

[Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>]

Hi Zhaoyang!

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 07:00:41PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> 
> Please be notice bellowing typical scenario that commit 168676649 introduce,
> that is, 12MB free cma pages 'help' GFP_MOVABLE to keep draining/fragmenting
> U&R page blocks until they shrink to 12MB without enter slowpath which against
> current reclaiming policy. This commit change the criteria from hard coded '1/2'
> to watermark check which leave U&R free pages stay around WMARK_LOW when being
> fallback.

Can you, please, explain the problem you're solving in more details?

If I understand your code correctly, you're effectively reducing the
use of cma areas for movable allocations. Why it's good?
Also, this is a hot path, please, make sure you're not adding
much overhead.

And please use scripts/checkpatch.pl next time, there are many
code style issues.

Thanks!

> 
> DMA32 free:25900kB boost:0kB min:4176kB low:25856kB high:29516kB
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 0745aed..97768fe 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3071,6 +3071,39 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac,
>  
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> +static bool __if_use_cma_first(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, unsigned int alloc_flags)
> +{
> +	unsigned long cma_proportion = 0;
> +	unsigned long cma_free_proportion = 0;
> +	unsigned long watermark = 0;
> +	unsigned long wm_fact[ALLOC_WMARK_MASK] = {1, 1, 2};
> +	long count = 0;
> +	bool cma_first = false;
> +
> +	watermark = wmark_pages(zone, alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK);
> +	/*check if GFP_MOVABLE pass previous watermark check via the help of CMA*/
> +	if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, watermark, 0, alloc_flags & (~ALLOC_CMA)))
> +	{
> +		alloc_flags &= ALLOC_WMARK_MASK;
> +		/* WMARK_LOW failed lead to using cma first, this helps U&R stay
> +		 * around low when being drained by GFP_MOVABLE
> +		 */
> +		if (alloc_flags <= ALLOC_WMARK_LOW)
> +			cma_first = true;
> +		/*check proportion for WMARK_HIGH*/
> +		else {
> +			count = atomic_long_read(&zone->managed_pages);
> +			cma_proportion = zone->cma_pages * 100 / count;
> +			cma_free_proportion = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES) * 100
> +				/  zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
> +			cma_first = (cma_free_proportion >= wm_fact[alloc_flags] * cma_proportion
> +					|| cma_free_proportion >= 50);
> +		}
> +	}
> +	return cma_first;
> +}
> +#endif
>  /*
>   * Do the hard work of removing an element from the buddy allocator.
>   * Call me with the zone->lock already held.
> @@ -3087,10 +3120,9 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac,
>  		 * allocating from CMA when over half of the zone's free memory
>  		 * is in the CMA area.
>  		 */
> -		if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA &&
> -		    zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES) >
> -		    zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES) / 2) {
> -			page = __rmqueue_cma_fallback(zone, order);
> +		if (migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) {
> +			bool cma_first = __if_use_cma_first(zone, order, alloc_flags);
> +			page = cma_first ? __rmqueue_cma_fallback(zone, order) : NULL;
>  			if (page)
>  				return page;
>  		}
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
>