* [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages
@ 2015-03-20 13:49 Eric B Munson
2015-03-20 14:47 ` Rik van Riel
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From: Eric B Munson @ 2015-03-20 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Eric B Munson, Vlastimil Babka, Thomas Gleixner,
Christoph Lameter, Peter Zijlstra, Mel Gorman, David Rientjes,
Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko, linux-doc, linux-rt-users, linux-mm,
linux-api, linux-kernel
Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from
compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time
extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page
fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the
ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults.
However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will
not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The
compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap
but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve
this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction
behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users that demand no page
faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0
and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on
locked memory by leaving the default value of 1.
To illustrate this problem I wrote a quick test program that mmaps a
large number of 1MB files filled with random data. These maps are
created locked and read only. Then every other mmap is unmapped and I
attempt to allocate huge pages to the static huge page pool. When the
compact_unevictable_allowed sysctl is 0, I cannot allocate hugepages
after fragmenting memory. When the value is set to 1, allocations
succeed.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
Changes from V6:
* Fixed changelog spelling
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 11 +++++++++++
include/linux/compaction.h | 1 +
kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++
mm/compaction.c | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 902b457..9832ec5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- admin_reserve_kbytes
- block_dump
- compact_memory
+- compact_unevictable_allowed
- dirty_background_bytes
- dirty_background_ratio
- dirty_bytes
@@ -106,6 +107,16 @@ huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required.
==============================================================
+compact_unevictable_allowed
+
+Available only when CONFIG_COMPACTION is set. When set to 1, compaction is
+allowed to examine the unevictable lru (mlocked pages) for pages to compact.
+This should be used on systems where stalls for minor page faults are an
+acceptable trade for large contiguous free memory. Set to 0 to prevent
+compaction from moving pages that are unevictable. Default value is 1.
+
+==============================================================
+
dirty_background_bytes
Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index a014559..aa8f61c 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
extern int sysctl_extfrag_threshold;
extern int sysctl_extfrag_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos);
+extern int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed;
extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
extern unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 88ea2d6..2f6c880 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1313,6 +1313,15 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.extra1 = &min_extfrag_threshold,
.extra2 = &max_extfrag_threshold,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "compact_unevictable_allowed",
+ .data = &sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
+ .extra2 = &one,
+ },
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
{
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 8c0d945..ad88a8c 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,12 @@ typedef enum {
} isolate_migrate_t;
/*
+ * Allow userspace to control policy on scanning the unevictable LRU for
+ * compactable pages.
+ */
+int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed __read_mostly = 1;
+
+/*
* Isolate all pages that can be migrated from the first suitable block,
* starting at the block pointed to by the migrate scanner pfn within
* compact_control.
@@ -1057,6 +1063,7 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
unsigned long low_pfn, end_pfn;
struct page *page;
const isolate_mode_t isolate_mode =
+ (sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed ? ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE : 0) |
(cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC ? ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE : 0);
/*
--
1.7.9.5
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* Re: [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages
2015-03-20 13:49 [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages Eric B Munson
@ 2015-03-20 14:47 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-20 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2015-03-20 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric B Munson, Andrew Morton
Cc: Vlastimil Babka, Thomas Gleixner, Christoph Lameter,
Peter Zijlstra, Mel Gorman, David Rientjes, Michal Hocko,
linux-doc, linux-rt-users, linux-mm, linux-api, linux-kernel
On 03/20/2015 09:49 AM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from
> compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time
> extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page
> fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the
> ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults.
> However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will
> not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The
> compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap
> but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve
> this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction
> behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users that demand no page
> faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0
> and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on
> locked memory by leaving the default value of 1.
>
> To illustrate this problem I wrote a quick test program that mmaps a
> large number of 1MB files filled with random data. These maps are
> created locked and read only. Then every other mmap is unmapped and I
> attempt to allocate huge pages to the static huge page pool. When the
> compact_unevictable_allowed sysctl is 0, I cannot allocate hugepages
> after fragmenting memory. When the value is set to 1, allocations
> succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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* Re: [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages
2015-03-20 13:49 [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages Eric B Munson
2015-03-20 14:47 ` Rik van Riel
@ 2015-03-20 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-21 13:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2015-03-20 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric B Munson
Cc: Vlastimil Babka, Thomas Gleixner, Christoph Lameter,
Peter Zijlstra, Mel Gorman, David Rientjes, Rik van Riel,
Michal Hocko, linux-doc, linux-rt-users, linux-mm, linux-api,
linux-kernel
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:49:50 -0400 Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> wrote:
> Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from
> compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time
> extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page
> fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the
> ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults.
> However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will
> not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The
> compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap
> but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve
> this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction
> behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users that demand no page
> faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0
> and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on
> locked memory by leaving the default value of 1.
Do we really really really need the /proc knob? We're already
migrating these pages so users of mlock will occasionally see some
latency - how likely is it that this patch will significantly damage
anyone?
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* Re: [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages
2015-03-20 13:49 [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages Eric B Munson
2015-03-20 14:47 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-20 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2015-03-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2015-03-20 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric B Munson
Cc: Vlastimil Babka, Thomas Gleixner, Christoph Lameter,
Peter Zijlstra, Mel Gorman, David Rientjes, Rik van Riel,
Michal Hocko, linux-doc, linux-rt-users, linux-mm, linux-api,
linux-kernel
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:49:50 -0400 Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> wrote:
> Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 11 +++++++++++
> include/linux/compaction.h | 1 +
> kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++
> mm/compaction.c | 7 +++++++
Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt might benefit from an update.
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* Re: [PATCH V7] Allow compaction of unevictable pages
2015-03-20 22:17 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2015-03-21 13:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
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From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2015-03-21 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Eric B Munson, Vlastimil Babka, Thomas Gleixner,
Christoph Lameter, Mel Gorman, David Rientjes, Rik van Riel,
Michal Hocko, linux-doc, linux-rt-users, linux-mm, linux-api,
linux-kernel
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:17:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:49:50 -0400 Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> wrote:
>
> > Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from
> > compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time
> > extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page
> > fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the
> > ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults.
> > However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will
> > not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The
> > compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap
> > but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve
> > this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction
> > behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users that demand no page
> > faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0
> > and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on
> > locked memory by leaving the default value of 1.
>
> Do we really really really need the /proc knob? We're already
> migrating these pages so users of mlock will occasionally see some
> latency - how likely is it that this patch will significantly damage
> anyone?
-rt disables everything that causes those migrations (with exception of
sys_migrate_pages).
And like I've argued before; mlock() is part of the posix real-time
extensions and the real-time people really do not want those migrations.
And while the letter of the posix spec allows migrations, the spirit
clearly does not.
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