Hello Minchan Thank you for your explain. Actually, I read the kernel with an old version. The latest upstream kernel has the behaviour like you described below. Oops, how long didn't I follow the buddy allocator change. Thanks. On 06/24/2014 07:35 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: >>> Anyway, most big concern is that you are changing current behavior as >>> > > I said earlier. >>> > > >>> > > Old behavior in THP page fault when it consumes own timeslot was just >>> > > abort and fallback 4K page but with your patch, new behavior is >>> > > take a rest when it founds need_resched and goes to another round with >>> > > async, not sync compaction. I'm not sure we need another round with >>> > > async compaction at the cost of increasing latency rather than fallback >>> > > 4 page. >> > >> > I don't see the new behavior works like what you said. If need_resched >> > is true, it calls cond_resched() and after a rest it just breaks the loop. >> > Why there is another round with async compact? > One example goes > > Old: > page fault > huge page allocation > __alloc_pages_slowpath > __alloc_pages_direct_compact > compact_zone_order > isolate_migratepages > compact_checklock_irqsave > need_resched is true > cc->contended = true; > return ISOLATE_ABORT > return COMPACT_PARTIAL with *contented = cc.contended; > COMPACTFAIL > if (contended_compaction && gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) > goto nopage; > > New: > > page fault > huge page allocation > __alloc_pages_slowpath > __alloc_pages_direct_compact > compact_zone_order > isolate_migratepages > compact_unlock_should_abort > need_resched is true > cc->contended = COMPACT_CONTENDED_SCHED; > return true; > return ISOLATE_ABORT > return COMPACT_PARTIAL with *contended = cc.contended == COMPACT_CONTENDED_LOCK (1) > COMPACTFAIL > if (contended_compaction && gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) > no goto nopage because contended_compaction was false by (1) > > __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim > if (should_alloc_retry) > else > __alloc_pages_direct_compact again with ASYNC_MODE > > -- Thanks. Zhang Yanfei -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>