From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@inbox.lv>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Darrick Wong <djwong@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
regressions@lists.linux.dev,
Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 09:53:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211209095317.GL3366@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df896d80-9972-5be-55c2-c5b0c7135d4b@google.com>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 10:20:47PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2021, Mel Gorman wrote:
> ...
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> ...
> > @@ -3478,14 +3520,18 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> > /* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
> > }
> >
> > + if (!first_pgdat)
> > + first_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> > +
> > /* See comment about same check for global reclaim above */
> > if (zone->zone_pgdat == last_pgdat)
> > continue;
> > last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> > shrink_node(zone->zone_pgdat, sc);
> > - consider_reclaim_throttle(zone->zone_pgdat, sc);
> > }
> >
> > + consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
>
> My tmpfs swapping load (tweaked to use huge pages more heavily than
> in real life) is far from being a realistic load: but it was notably
> slowed down by your throttling mods in 5.16-rc, and this patch makes
> it well again - thanks.
>
> But: it very quickly hit NULL pointer until I changed that last line to
>
> if (first_pgdat)
> consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
>
> I've given no thought as to whether that is the correct fix,
> or if first_pgdat should be set earlier in the loop above.
>
It's the right fix, first_pgdat may be NULL if compaction can run for
each zone in the zonelist which could be the case for a tmpfs swapping
load that is huge page intensive.
Thanks Hugh.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-09 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-02 15:06 [PATCH v4 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress Mel Gorman
2021-12-02 16:30 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-12-02 16:52 ` Mel Gorman
2021-12-02 17:41 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-12-03 9:01 ` Mel Gorman
2021-12-03 17:50 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-12-03 19:08 ` Mel Gorman
2021-12-06 6:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-12-06 11:25 ` Mel Gorman
2021-12-07 7:14 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-12-07 9:28 ` Mel Gorman
2021-12-09 6:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-12-09 9:53 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2021-12-28 10:04 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-12-29 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-31 14:24 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-12-31 18:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-12-31 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-31 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-31 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-01 10:52 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-12-31 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-31 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-02-14 21:10 ` Shuang Zhai
2022-02-15 14:49 ` Mel Gorman
2022-02-22 17:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress' Shuang Zhai
2022-02-23 12:50 ` Mel Gorman
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