From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org>,
Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>,
Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stable tree <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:54:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53169158-09b1-e592-def0-de5e4c47ce16@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181009225147.GD9307@redhat.com>
On 10/10/18 12:51 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Yes there's one case where reclaim is "pointless", but it happens once
> and then COMPACT_DEFERRED is returned and __GFP_NORETRY will skip
> reclaim then.
>
> So you're right when we hit fragmentation there's one and only one
> "pointless" reclaim invocation. And immediately after we also
> exponentially backoff on the compaction invocations with the
> compaction deferred logic.
>
> We could try optimize away such "pointless" reclaim event for sure,
> but it's probably an optimization that may just get lost in the noise
> and may not be measurable, because it only happens once when the first
> full fragmentation is encountered.
Note there's a small catch in the above. defer_compaction() has always
only been called after a failure on higher priority than
COMPACT_PRIO_ASYNC, where it's assumed that async compaction can
terminate prematurely due to a number of reasons, so it doesn't mean
that the zone itself cannot be compacted.
And, for __GFP_NORETRY, if the initial compaction fails, we keep using
async compaction also for the second, after-reclaim attempt (which would
otherwise use SYNC_LIGHT):
/*
* Looks like reclaim/compaction is worth trying, but
* sync compaction could be very expensive, so keep
* using async compaction.
*/
compact_priority = INIT_COMPACT_PRIORITY;
This doesn't affect current madvised THP allocation which doesn't use
__GFP_NORETRY, but could explain why you saw no benefit from changing it
to __GFP_NORETRY.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-25 12:03 [PATCH 0/2] thp nodereclaim fixes Michal Hocko
2018-09-25 12:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings Michal Hocko
2018-09-25 12:20 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-25 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-04 20:16 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-04 21:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-04 23:05 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-06 3:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-05 7:38 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-05 20:35 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-05 23:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-08 20:41 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-09 9:48 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-09 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 13:00 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-09 14:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09 15:16 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-09 23:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-10 21:19 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-15 22:30 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-15 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-15 23:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-22 20:54 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-16 7:46 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-16 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-16 23:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-16 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-17 7:08 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-17 9:00 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-22 21:04 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-23 1:27 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-28 21:45 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-23 7:57 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-23 8:38 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-15 22:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-22 20:45 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-09 22:17 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-09 22:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-10 7:54 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2018-10-10 21:00 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-09 13:08 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-09 22:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-10-29 5:17 ` Balbir Singh
2018-10-29 9:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 9:42 ` Balbir Singh
2018-10-29 10:08 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-29 10:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-09-25 12:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 13:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-09-26 14:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 14:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-19 2:11 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-19 8:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 13:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-24 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-25 4:56 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-25 16:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-25 16:18 ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-25 16:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 13:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-22 13:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 13:35 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-22 13:46 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 13:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-04 20:17 ` David Rientjes
2018-10-04 21:49 ` Zi Yan
2018-10-09 12:36 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 13:08 ` linux-mm@ archive on lore.kernel.org (Was: [PATCH 0/2] thp nodereclaim fixes) Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-09-26 13:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-09-26 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2018-09-26 23:08 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-27 0:47 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-26 15:25 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-09-27 11:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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