Hi, On 4.9.7 kswapd is failing to wake up kcompactd due to a mismatch in the zone balance check between balance_pgdat() and prepare_kswapd_sleep(). balance_pgdat() returns as soon as a single zone satisfies the allocation but prepare_kswapd_sleep() requires all zones to do the same. This causes prepare_kswapd_sleep() to never succeed except in the order == 0 case and consequently, wakeup_kcompactd() is never called. On my machine prior to apply this patch, the state of compaction from /proc/vmstat looked this way after a day and a half of uptime: compact_migrate_scanned 240496 compact_free_scanned 76238632 compact_isolated 123472 compact_stall 1791 compact_fail 29 compact_success 1762 compact_daemon_wake 0 After applying the patch and about 10 hours of uptime the state looks like this: compact_migrate_scanned 59927299 compact_free_scanned 2021075136 compact_isolated 640926 compact_stall 4 compact_fail 2 compact_success 2 compact_daemon_wake 5160 Thanks, Shantanu
From 46f2e4b02ac263bf50d69cdab3bcbd7bcdea7415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 19:07:53 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: fix zone balance check in prepare_kswapd_sleep The check in prepare_kswapd_sleep needs to match the one in balance_pgdat since the latter will return as soon as any one of the zones in the classzone is above the watermark. This is specially important for higher order allocations since balance_pgdat will typically reset the order to zero relying on compaction to create the higher order pages. Without this patch, prepare_kswapd_sleep fails to wake up kcompactd since the zone balance check fails. Signed-off-by: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 7682469..11899ff 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3142,11 +3142,11 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx) if (!managed_zone(zone)) continue; - if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx)) - return false; + if (zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx)) + return true; } - return true; + return false; } /* -- 2.7.4
