答复: [PATCH V2] mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user

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> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: charante=codeaurora.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <charante=codeaurora.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 代表 Charan Teja Reddy
> 发送时间: 2021年5月18日 21:38
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> 主题: [PATCH V2] mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive
> compaction by user
> 
> The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
> compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9)
> pages based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness.
> Triggering the compaction for every 500msec in search of
> COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is not needed for all applications,
> especially on the embedded system usecases which may have few MB's of
> RAM. Enabling the proactive compaction in its state will endup in running
> almost always on such systems.
> 
> Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting a set
> of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by using the
> sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). Thus on systems where enabling the
> proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the same
> from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say app
> launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be
> launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare the
> system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from userspace.
> 
> This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to
> sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user.

If you want to trigger compaction from userspace, you can use " echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory", there is no need to be so complex.

> 
> [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?i
> d=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a
> 
> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> changes in V2:
>     - remove /proc interface trigger for proactive compaction
>     - Intention is same that add a way to trigger proactive compaction by user.
> 
> changes in V1:
>     -
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1619098678-8501-1-git-send-email-charante@co
> deaurora.org/
> 
>  include/linux/compaction.h |  2 ++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h     |  1 +
>  kernel/sysctl.c            |  2 +-
>  mm/compaction.c            | 35
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h index
> 4221888..04d5d9f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compaction.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ static inline unsigned long compact_gap(unsigned int
> order)  extern unsigned int sysctl_compaction_proactiveness;  extern int
> sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
>  			void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos);
> +extern int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table,
> +		int write, void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos);
>  extern int sysctl_extfrag_threshold;
>  extern int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed;
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index
> 0d53eba..9455809 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -815,6 +815,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
>  	enum zone_type kcompactd_highest_zoneidx;
>  	wait_queue_head_t kcompactd_wait;
>  	struct task_struct *kcompactd;
> +	bool proactive_compact_trigger;
>  #endif
>  	/*
>  	 * This is a per-node reserve of pages that are not available diff --git
> a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 14edf84..bed2fad 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -2840,7 +2840,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
>  		.data		= &sysctl_compaction_proactiveness,
>  		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_compaction_proactiveness),
>  		.mode		= 0644,
> -		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
> +		.proc_handler	= compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler,
>  		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
>  		.extra2		= &one_hundred,
>  	},
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 84fde27..9056693
> 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -2708,6 +2708,30 @@ static void compact_nodes(void)
>   */
>  unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_compaction_proactiveness = 20;
> 
> +int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int
> write,
> +		void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) {
> +	int rc, nid;
> +
> +	rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
> +	if (rc)
> +		return rc;
> +
> +	if (write && sysctl_compaction_proactiveness) {
> +		for_each_online_node(nid) {
> +			pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
> +
> +			if (pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = true;
> +			wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kcompactd_wait);
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via
>   * /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
> @@ -2752,7 +2776,8 @@ void compaction_unregister_node(struct node
> *node)
> 
>  static inline bool kcompactd_work_requested(pg_data_t *pgdat)  {
> -	return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop();
> +	return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop() ||
> +		pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger;
>  }
> 
>  static bool kcompactd_node_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat) @@ -2905,7
> +2930,8 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p)
>  		trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
>  		if (wait_event_freezable_timeout(pgdat->kcompactd_wait,
>  			kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat),
> -			msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC))) {
> +			msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC)) &&
> +			!pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger) {
> 
>  			psi_memstall_enter(&pflags);
>  			kcompactd_do_work(pgdat);
> @@ -2919,7 +2945,7 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p)
> 
>  			if (proactive_defer) {
>  				proactive_defer--;
> -				continue;
> +				goto loop;
>  			}
>  			prev_score = fragmentation_score_node(pgdat);
>  			proactive_compact_node(pgdat);
> @@ -2931,6 +2957,9 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p)
>  			proactive_defer = score < prev_score ?
>  					0 : 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT;
>  		}
> +loop:
> +		if (pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger)
> +			pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = false;
>  	}
> 
>  	return 0;
> --
> QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a
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