On Wed 21-10-20 23:48:46, Rik van Riel wrote: > The allocation flags of anonymous transparent huge pages can be controlled > through the files in /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag, which can > help the system from getting bogged down in the page reclaim and compaction > code when many THPs are getting allocated simultaneously. > > However, the gfp_mask for shmem THP allocations were not limited by those > configuration settings, and some workloads ended up with all CPUs stuck > on the LRU lock in the page reclaim code, trying to allocate dozens of > THPs simultaneously. > > This patch applies the same configurated limitation of THPs to shmem > hugepage allocations, to prevent that from happening. > > This way a THP defrag setting of "never" or "defer+madvise" will result > in quick allocation failures without direct reclaim when no 2MB free > pages are available. I remmeber I wanted to unify this in the past as well. The patch got reverted in the end. It was a long story and I do not have time to read through lengthy discussions again. I do remember though that there were some objections pointing out that shmem has its own behavior which is controlled by the mount option - at least for the explicitly mounted shmems. I might misremember. [...] > diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c > index 537c137698f8..d1290eb508e5 100644 > --- a/mm/shmem.c > +++ b/mm/shmem.c > @@ -1545,8 +1545,11 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_hugepage(gfp_t gfp, > return NULL; > > shmem_pseudo_vma_init(&pvma, info, hindex); > - page = alloc_pages_vma(gfp | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN, > - HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, &pvma, 0, numa_node_id(), true); > + /* Limit the gfp mask according to THP configuration. */ > + gfp |= __GFP_COMP | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN; What is the reason for these when alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask provides the full mask? > + gfp &= alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(&pvma); > + page = alloc_pages_vma(gfp, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, &pvma, 0, numa_node_id(), > + true); > shmem_pseudo_vma_destroy(&pvma); > if (page) > prep_transhuge_page(page); > > -- > All rights reversed. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
