From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:31:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160623113153.GU1868@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <072501d1cc61$f51a2380$df4e6a80$@alibaba-inc.com>
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:42:06PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > /*
> > - * If a zone reaches its high watermark, consider it to be no longer
> > - * congested. It's possible there are dirty pages backed by congested
> > - * BDIs but as pressure is relieved, speculatively avoid congestion
> > - * waits.
> > + * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced for
> > + * high-order allocations. If twice the allocation size has been
> > + * reclaimed then recheck watermarks only at order-0 to prevent
> > + * excessive reclaim. Assume that a process requested a high-order
> > + * can direct reclaim/compact.
> > */
> > - if (pgdat_reclaimable(zone->zone_pgdat) &&
> > - zone_balanced(zone, sc->order, false, 0, classzone_idx)) {
> > - clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags);
> > - clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
> > - }
> > + if (sc->order && sc->nr_reclaimed >= 2UL << sc->order)
> > + sc->order = 0;
> >
>
> Reclaim order is changed here.
> Btw, I find no such change in current code.
>
It is reintroducing a check removed by commit accf62422b3a ("mm, kswapd: replace
kswapd compaction with waking up kcompactd"). That patch had kswapd
always check at order-0 once kswapd is awake in pgdat_balanced but would
still take at least one pass through reclaiming so kcompactd potentially
makes progress.
This patch removes pgdat_balanced entirely and zone_balanced() checks the
order it is asked like it used to. Hence, it is necessary to reset sc->order
once progress is made or kswapd potentially stays awake reclaiming pages
until a high-order page is freed.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <071801d1cc5c$245087d0$6cf19770$@alibaba-inc.com>
2016-06-22 8:42 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Hillf Danton
2016-06-23 11:31 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2016-06-21 14:15 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v7 Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
[not found] <02fe01d1c48b$c44e9e80$4cebdb80$@alibaba-inc.com>
2016-06-12 9:33 ` Hillf Danton
2016-06-14 14:52 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-09 18:04 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v6 Mel Gorman
2016-06-09 18:04 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-06-15 14:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-04-15 9:13 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v5 Mel Gorman
2016-04-15 9:13 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-04-28 8:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
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