From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE21C4363D for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F356C2083B for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:33:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728365AbgIYNdo (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:33:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55556 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728148AbgIYNdo (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:33:44 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF96BB13B; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:19:48 +0200 From: Oscar Salvador To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Alexander Duyck , Mel Gorman , Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , Wei Yang , Mike Rapoport , Scott Cheloha , Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/4] mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __putback_isolated_page() Message-ID: <20200925131948.GB3910@linux> References: <20200916183411.64756-1-david@redhat.com> <20200916183411.64756-3-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200916183411.64756-3-david@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 08:34:09PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > __putback_isolated_page() already documents that pages will be placed to > the tail of the freelist - this is, however, not the case for > "order >= MAX_ORDER - 2" (see buddy_merge_likely()) - which should be > the case for all existing users. > > This change affects two users: > - free page reporting > - page isolation, when undoing the isolation. > > This behavior is desireable for pages that haven't really been touched > lately, so exactly the two users that don't actually read/write page > content, but rather move untouched pages. > > The new behavior is especially desirable for memory onlining, where we > allow allocation of newly onlined pages via undo_isolate_page_range() > in online_pages(). Right now, we always place them to the head of the > free list, resulting in undesireable behavior: Assume we add > individual memory chunks via add_memory() and online them right away to > the NORMAL zone. We create a dependency chain of unmovable allocations > e.g., via the memmap. The memmap of the next chunk will be placed onto > previous chunks - if the last block cannot get offlined+removed, all > dependent ones cannot get offlined+removed. While this can already be > observed with individual DIMMs, it's more of an issue for virtio-mem > (and I suspect also ppc DLPAR). > > Note: If we observe a degradation due to the changed page isolation > behavior (which I doubt), we can always make this configurable by the > instance triggering undo of isolation (e.g., alloc_contig_range(), > memory onlining, memory offlining). > > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Alexander Duyck > Cc: Mel Gorman > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Dave Hansen > Cc: Vlastimil Babka > Cc: Wei Yang > Cc: Oscar Salvador > Cc: Mike Rapoport > Cc: Scott Cheloha > Cc: Michael Ellerman > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand LGTM, the only thing is the shuffe_zone topic that Wei and Vlastimil rose. Feels a bit odd that takes precedence over something we explicitily demanded. With the comment Vlastimil suggested: Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3