From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joonsoo Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (CMA_AGGRESSIVE) Make CMA memory be more aggressive about allocation Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:25:53 +0900 Message-ID: <20141024052553.GE15243@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> References: <1413430551-22392-1-git-send-email-zhuhui@xiaomi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.151]:46155 "EHLO lgemrelse7q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752524AbaJXFYu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:24:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1413430551-22392-1-git-send-email-zhuhui@xiaomi.com> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Hui Zhu Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, len.brown@intel.com, pavel@ucw.cz, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mina86@mina86.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de, minchan@kernel.org, nasa4836@gmail.com, ddstreet@ieee.org, hughd@google.com, mingo@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, peterz@infradead.org, keescook@chromium.org, atomlin@redhat.com, raistlin@linux.it, axboe@fb.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, k.khlebnikov@samsung.com, msalter@redhat.com, deller@gmx.de, tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, akinobu.mita@gmail.com, lauraa@codeaurora.org, vbabka@suse.cz, sasha.levin@oracle.com, vdavydov@parallels.com, suleiman@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:35:47AM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote: > In fallbacks of page_alloc.c, MIGRATE_CMA is the fallback of > MIGRATE_MOVABLE. > MIGRATE_MOVABLE will use MIGRATE_CMA when it doesn't have a page in > order that Linux kernel want. > > If a system that has a lot of user space program is running, for > instance, an Android board, most of memory is in MIGRATE_MOVABLE and > allocated. Before function __rmqueue_fallback get memory from > MIGRATE_CMA, the oom_killer will kill a task to release memory when > kernel want get MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE memory because fallbacks of > MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE are MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE and MIGRATE_MOVABLE. > This status is odd. The MIGRATE_CMA has a lot free memory but Linux > kernel kill some tasks to release memory. > > This patch series adds a new function CMA_AGGRESSIVE to make CMA memory > be more aggressive about allocation. > If function CMA_AGGRESSIVE is available, when Linux kernel call function > __rmqueue try to get pages from MIGRATE_MOVABLE and conditions allow, > MIGRATE_CMA will be allocated as MIGRATE_MOVABLE first. If MIGRATE_CMA > doesn't have enough pages for allocation, go back to allocate memory from > MIGRATE_MOVABLE. > Then the memory of MIGRATE_MOVABLE can be kept for MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE and > MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE which doesn't have fallback MIGRATE_CMA. Hello, I did some work similar to this. Please reference following links. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/64 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/57 And, aggressive allocation should be postponed until freepage counting bug is fixed, because aggressive allocation enlarge the possiblity of problem occurence. I tried to fix that bug, too. See following link. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/90 Thanks.