Re: [PATCH v4] page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast

* Re: [PATCH v4] page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast
  2020-06-19 23:59 ` [PATCH v4] page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast Jaewon Kim
@ 2020-06-19 12:42   ` Baoquan He
  2020-06-22  8:55   ` Mel Gorman
                     ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Baoquan He @ 2020-06-19 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jaewon Kim
  Cc: vbabka, mgorman, minchan, mgorman, hannes, akpm, linux-mm,
	linux-kernel, jaewon31.kim, ytk.lee, cmlaika.kim

On 06/20/20 at 08:59am, Jaewon Kim wrote:
...

> kswapd0-1207  [005] ...1   889.213398: mm_page_alloc: page= (null) pfn=0 order=0 migratetype=1 nr_free=3650 gfp_flags=GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_MOVABLE
> 
> Reported-by: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
> Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

> ---
> v4: change description only; typo and log
> v3: change log in description to one having reserved_highatomic
>     change comment in code
> v2: factor out common part
> v1: consider highatomic reserve
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 48eb0f1410d4..fe83f88ce188 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3487,6 +3487,29 @@ static noinline bool should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
>  }
>  ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(should_fail_alloc_page, TRUE);
>  
> +static inline long __zone_watermark_unusable_free(struct zone *z,
> +				unsigned int order, unsigned int alloc_flags)
> +{
> +	const bool alloc_harder = (alloc_flags & (ALLOC_HARDER|ALLOC_OOM));
> +	long unusable_free = (1 << order) - 1;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If the caller does not have rights to ALLOC_HARDER then subtract
> +	 * the high-atomic reserves. This will over-estimate the size of the
> +	 * atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
> +	 */
> +	if (likely(!alloc_harder))
> +		unusable_free += z->nr_reserved_highatomic;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> +	/* If allocation can't use CMA areas don't use free CMA pages */
> +	if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA))
> +		unusable_free += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES);
> +#endif
> +
> +	return unusable_free;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Return true if free base pages are above 'mark'. For high-order checks it
>   * will return true of the order-0 watermark is reached and there is at least
> @@ -3502,19 +3525,12 @@ bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark,
>  	const bool alloc_harder = (alloc_flags & (ALLOC_HARDER|ALLOC_OOM));
>  
>  	/* free_pages may go negative - that's OK */
> -	free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1;
> +	free_pages -= __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, order, alloc_flags);
>  
>  	if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGH)
>  		min -= min / 2;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If the caller does not have rights to ALLOC_HARDER then subtract
> -	 * the high-atomic reserves. This will over-estimate the size of the
> -	 * atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
> -	 */
> -	if (likely(!alloc_harder)) {
> -		free_pages -= z->nr_reserved_highatomic;
> -	} else {
> +	if (unlikely(alloc_harder)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * OOM victims can try even harder than normal ALLOC_HARDER
>  		 * users on the grounds that it's definitely going to be in
> @@ -3527,13 +3543,6 @@ bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark,
>  			min -= min / 4;
>  	}
>  
> -
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> -	/* If allocation can't use CMA areas don't use free CMA pages */
> -	if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA))
> -		free_pages -= zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES);
> -#endif
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Check watermarks for an order-0 allocation request. If these
>  	 * are not met, then a high-order request also cannot go ahead
> @@ -3582,25 +3591,22 @@ static inline bool zone_watermark_fast(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
>  				unsigned long mark, int highest_zoneidx,
>  				unsigned int alloc_flags)
>  {
> -	long free_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES);
> -	long cma_pages = 0;
> +	long free_pages;
> +	long unusable_free;
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> -	/* If allocation can't use CMA areas don't use free CMA pages */
> -	if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA))
> -		cma_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES);
> -#endif
> +	free_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES);
> +	unusable_free = __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, order, alloc_flags);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Fast check for order-0 only. If this fails then the reserves
> -	 * need to be calculated. There is a corner case where the check
> -	 * passes but only the high-order atomic reserve are free. If
> -	 * the caller is !atomic then it'll uselessly search the free
> -	 * list. That corner case is then slower but it is harmless.
> +	 * need to be calculated.
>  	 */
> -	if (!order && (free_pages - cma_pages) >
> -				mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx])
> -		return true;
> +	if (!order) {
> +		long fast_free = free_pages - unusable_free;
> +
> +		if (fast_free > mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx])
> +			return true;
> +	}
>  
>  	return __zone_watermark_ok(z, order, mark, highest_zoneidx, alloc_flags,
>  					free_pages);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 


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