Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] mm/page_reporting: Allow driver to specify reporting order

[Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>]

On 6/25/21 11:19 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 4:46 PM Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The page reporting order (threshold) is sticky to @pageblock_order
>> by default. The page reporting can never be triggered because the
>> freeing page can't come up with a free area like that huge. The
>> situation becomes worse when the system memory becomes heavily
>> fragmented.
>>
>> For example, the following configurations are used on ARM64 when 64KB
>> base page size is enabled. In this specific case, the page reporting
>> won't be triggered until the freeing page comes up with a 512MB free
>> area. That's hard to be met, especially when the system memory becomes
>> heavily fragmented.
>>
>>     PAGE_SIZE:          64KB
>>     HPAGE_SIZE:         512MB
>>     pageblock_order:    13       (512MB)
>>     MAX_ORDER:          14
>>
>> This allows the drivers to specify the page reporting order when the
>> page reporting device is registered. It falls back to @pageblock_order
>> if it's not specified by the driver. The existing users (hv_balloon
>> and virtio_balloon) don't specify it and @pageblock_order is still
>> taken as their page reporting order. So this shouldn't introduce any
>> functional changes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/page_reporting.h | 3 +++
>>   mm/page_reporting.c            | 6 ++++++
>>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/page_reporting.h b/include/linux/page_reporting.h
>> index 3b99e0ec24f2..fe648dfa3a7c 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/page_reporting.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/page_reporting.h
>> @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ struct page_reporting_dev_info {
>>
>>          /* Current state of page reporting */
>>          atomic_t state;
>> +
>> +       /* Minimal order of page reporting */
>> +       unsigned int order;
>>   };
>>
>>   /* Tear-down and bring-up for page reporting devices */
>> diff --git a/mm/page_reporting.c b/mm/page_reporting.c
>> index 34bf4d26c2c4..382958eef8a9 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_reporting.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_reporting.c
>> @@ -329,6 +329,12 @@ int page_reporting_register(struct page_reporting_dev_info *prdev)
>>                  goto err_out;
>>          }
>>
>> +       /*
>> +        * Update the page reporting order if it's specified by driver.
>> +        * Otherwise, it falls back to @pageblock_order.
>> +        */
>> +       page_reporting_order = prdev->order ? : pageblock_order;
>> +
> 
> An alternative to this would be to look at setting up some
> comparisons. I might add another variable and do something like:
> order = prdev->order ? : pageblock_order;
> if (order < page_reporting_order)
>      page_reporting_order = order;
> 
> You could essentially do something similar in the previous patch but
> just use pageblock_order directly rather than having to add a local
> variable.
> 
> That way if you need to still pull down the page reporting order you
> can do so without prdev->order or pageblock_order overwriting the
> value and pushing it back up.
> 

Thanks, Alex. Lets do both in v5, which will be posted shortly.

Thanks,
Gavin