On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:20:56PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:07:05PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> > > then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> > > shrink_zones(). This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> > > return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> > >
> > > Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> > > zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> > > actual zone reclaimability.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
> > > /* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
> > > unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
> > >
> > > + /* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> > > + int compaction_ready;
> > > +
> > > /* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
> > > unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
> > >
> >
> > You are not the criminal here but scan_control is larger than it needs
> > to be and the stack usage of reclaim has reared its head again.
> >
> > Add a preparation patch that convert sc->may* and sc->hibernation_mode
> > to bool and moves them towards the end of the struct. Then add
> > compaction_ready as a bool.
>
> Good idea, I'll do that.
>
Thanks.
> > > @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > > }
> > >
> > > /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> > > -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > > +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
> > >
> > > {
> >
> > Why did you remove the use of sc->order? In this patch there is only one
> > called of compaction_ready and it looks like
> >
> > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> > sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
> > zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
> > compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> >
> > So it's unclear why you changed the signature.
>
> Everything else in compaction_ready() is about internal compaction
> requirements, like checking for free pages and deferred compaction,
> whereas this order check is more of a reclaim policy rule according to
> the comment in the caller:
>
> ...
> * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> * page allocations.
> */
>
> But it's an unrelated in-the-area-anyway change, I can split it out -
> or drop it entirely - if you prefer.
>
It's ok as-is. It just seemed unrelated and seemed to do nothing. I was
wondering if this was a rebasing artifact and some other change that
required it got lost along the way by accident.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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