On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:17:51PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> We currently have 2 specific WQ_RECLAIM workqueues in the mm code.
> vmstat_wq for updating pcp stats and lru_add_drain_wq dedicated to drain
> per cpu lru caches. This seems more than necessary because both can run
> on a single WQ. Both do not block on locks requiring a memory allocation
> nor perform any allocations themselves. We will save one rescuer thread
> this way.
>
> On the other hand drain_all_pages() queues work on the system wq which
> doesn't have rescuer and so this depend on memory allocation (when all
> workers are stuck allocating and new ones cannot be created). This is
> not critical as there should be somebody invoking the OOM killer (e.g.
> the forking worker) and get the situation unstuck and eventually
> performs the draining. Quite annoying though. This worker should be
> using WQ_RECLAIM as well. We can reuse the same one as for lru draining
> and vmstat.
>
> Changes since v1
> - rename vmstat_wq to mm_percpu_wq - per Mel
> - make sure we are not trying to enqueue anything while the WQ hasn't
> been intialized yet. This shouldn't happen because the initialization
> is done from an init code but some init section might be triggering
> those paths indirectly so just warn and skip the draining in that case
> per Vlastimil
> - do not propagate error from setup_vmstat to keep the previous behavior
> per Mel
>
> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> +struct workqueue_struct *mm_percpu_wq;
> +
> static int __init setup_vmstat(void)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> - int ret;
> + int ret __maybe_unused;
>
> + mm_percpu_wq = alloc_workqueue("vmstat", WQ_FREEZABLE|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> ret = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_MM_VMSTAT_DEAD, "mm/vmstat:dead",
> NULL, vmstat_cpu_dead);
> if (ret < 0)
Should the workqueue also have been renamed to mm_percpu_wq?
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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