From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:14:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530161415.GB2200@barrios-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110530131300.GQ5044@csn.ul.ie>
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:13:00PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Asynchronous compaction is used when promoting to huge pages. This is
> all very nice but if there are a number of processes in compacting
> memory, a large number of pages can be isolated. An "asynchronous"
> process can stall for long periods of time as a result with a user
> reporting that firefox can stall for 10s of seconds. This patch aborts
> asynchronous compaction if too many pages are isolated as it's better to
> fail a hugepage promotion than stall a process.
>
> If accepted, this should also be considered for 2.6.39-stable. It should
> also be considered for 2.6.38-stable but ideally [11bc82d6: mm:
> compaction: Use async migration for __GFP_NO_KSWAPD and enforce no
> writeback] would be applied to 2.6.38 before consideration.
>
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
I have a nitpick below.
Otherwise, looks good to me.
> ---
> mm/compaction.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 021a296..331a2ee 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -240,11 +240,20 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone)
> return isolated > (inactive + active) / 2;
> }
>
> +/* possible outcome of isolate_migratepages */
> +typedef enum {
> + ISOLATE_ABORT, /* Abort compaction now */
> + ISOLATE_NONE, /* No pages isolated, continue scanning */
> + ISOLATE_SUCCESS, /* Pages isolated, migrate */
> +} isolate_migrate_t;
> +
> /*
> * Isolate all pages that can be migrated from the block pointed to by
> * the migrate scanner within compact_control.
> + *
> + * Returns false if compaction should abort at this point due to congestion.
false? I think it would be better to use explicit word, ISOLATE_ABORT.
--
Kind regards
Minchan Kim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-30 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 13:13 [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 14:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-30 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 16:55 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 17:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 12:16 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 12:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 13:33 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 14:37 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:38 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 18:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 20:21 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 20:59 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 22:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 21:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 22:23 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 22:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 23:01 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-03 17:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03 18:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-04 7:59 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:32 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 14:47 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 14:07 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:15 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 10:26 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 14:01 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 14:26 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 23:02 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-01 0:57 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 9:24 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 17:58 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 19:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-01 21:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 23:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 1:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-02 8:34 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 13:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 14:50 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-02 15:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03 2:09 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-03 14:49 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-03 15:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-04 7:25 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:39 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 14:55 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 14:19 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-04 6:58 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:43 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 13:27 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 13:23 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 14:45 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-05-30 16:14 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2011-05-31 8:32 ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-31 4:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-31 5:38 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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