On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 05:01:22PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Changes since v1: > o Reorder patch 2 and 3, Cc stable for patch 1 > o Fix tracepoint in patch 1 (Joonsoo Kim) > o Cleanup in patch 2 (suggested by Minchan Kim) > o Improved comments and changelogs per Minchan and Mel. > o Considered /proc/pagetypeinfo in evaluation with 3.18 as baseline > > When studying page stealing, I noticed some weird looking decisions in > try_to_steal_freepages(). The first I assume is a bug (Patch 1), the following > two patches were driven by evaluation. > > Testing was done with stress-highalloc of mmtests, using the > mm_page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint and postprocessing to get counts of how often > page stealing occurs for individual migratetypes, and what migratetypes are > used for fallbacks. Arguably, the worst case of page stealing is when > UNMOVABLE allocation steals from MOVABLE pageblock. RECLAIMABLE allocation > stealing from MOVABLE allocation is also not ideal, so the goal is to minimize > these two cases. > > For some reason, the first patch increased the number of page stealing events > for MOVABLE allocations in the former evaluation with 3.17-rc7 + compaction > patches. In theory these events are not as bad, and the second patch does more > than just to correct this. In v2 evaluation based on 3.18, the weird result > was gone completely. > > In v2 I also checked if /proc/pagetypeinfo has shown an increase of the number > of unmovable/reclaimable pageblocks during and after the test, and it didn't. > The test was repeated 25 times with reboot only after each 5 to show > longer-term differences in the state of the system, which also wasn't the case. > > Extfrag events summed over first iteration after reboot (5 repeats) > 3.18 3.18 3.18 3.18 > 0-nothp-1 1-nothp-1 2-nothp-1 3-nothp-1 > Page alloc extfrag event 4547160 4593415 2343438 2198189 > Extfrag fragmenting 4546361 4592610 2342595 2196611 > Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 5725 9196 5720 1093 > Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 3877 4091 1330 859 > Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 770 628 511 616 > Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 679 520 407 492 > Extfrag fragmenting for movable 4539866 4582786 2336364 2194902 > > Compared to v1 this looks like a regression for patch 1 wrt unmovable events, > but I blame noise and less repeats (it was 10 in v1). On the other hand, the > the mysterious increase in movable allocation events in v1 is gone (due to > different baseline?) Hmm... the result on patch 2 looks odd. Because you reorder patches, patch 2 have some effects on unmovable stealing and I expect that 'Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable' decreases. But, the result looks not. Is there any reason you think? And, could you share compaction success rate and allocation success rate on each iteration? In fact, reducing Extfrag event isn't our goal. It is natural result of this patchset because we steal pages more aggressively. Our utimate goal is to make the system less fragmented and to get more high order freepage, so I'd like to know this results. Thanks. > > Sum for second iterations since reboot: > 3.18 3.18 3.18 3.18 > 0-nothp-2 1-nothp-2 2-nothp-2 3-nothp-2 > Page alloc extfrag event 1960806 1682705 868136 602097 > Extfrag fragmenting 1960268 1682153 867624 601608 > Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 14373 13973 12275 2158 > Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 10465 7233 8814 1821 > Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 2268 1244 1122 1284 > Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 2092 1010 940 1033 > Extfrag fragmenting for movable 1943627 1666936 854227 598166 > > Running stress-highalloc again without reboot is indeed different, and worse > wrt unmovable allocations (also worse wrt high-order allocation success rates) > but the patches improve it as well. Similar trend can be observed for further > iterations after reboot. > > > > > > > > Vlastimil Babka (3): > mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting > buddy page > mm: always steal split buddies in fallback allocations > mm: more aggressive page stealing for UNMOVABLE allocations > > include/trace/events/kmem.h | 7 ++-- > mm/page_alloc.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- > 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.1.2 > > -- > 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> -- 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>