On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 04:27:40PM +0900, Gioh Kim wrote: > Hello, > > This series try to enable migration of non-LRU pages, such as driver's page. > > My ARM-based platform occured severe fragmentation problem after long-term > (several days) test. Sometimes even order-3 page allocation failed. It has > memory size 512MB ~ 1024MB. 30% ~ 40% memory is consumed for graphic processing > and 20~30 memory is reserved for zram. > > I found that many pages of GPU driver and zram are non-movable pages. So I > reported Minchan Kim, the maintainer of zram, and he made the internal > compaction logic of zram. And I made the internal compaction of GPU driver. > > They reduced some fragmentation but they are not enough effective. > They are activated by its own interface, /sys, so they are not cooperative > with kernel compaction. If there is too much fragmentation and kernel starts > to compaction, zram and GPU driver cannot work with the kernel compaction. > > The first this patch adds a generic isolate/migrate/putback callbacks for page > address-space. The zram and GPU, and any other modules can register > its own migration method. The kernel compaction can call the registered > migration when it works. Therefore all page in the system can be migrated > at once. > > The 2nd the generic migration callbacks are applied into balloon driver. > My gpu driver code is not open so I apply generic migration into balloon > to show how it works. I've tested it with qemu enabled by kvm like followings: > - turn on Ubuntu 14.04 with 1G memory on qemu. > - do kernel building > - after several seconds check more than 512MB is used with free command > - command "balloon 512" in qemu monitor > - check hundreds MB of pages are migrated > > Next kernel compaction code can call generic migration callbacks instead of > balloon driver interface. > Finally calling migration of balloon driver is removed. > In a glance, ss Konstantin pointed out this set, while it twists chunks around, brings back code we got rid of a while ago because it was messy and racy. I'll take a closer look into your work next week, but for now, I'd say we should not follow this patch of reintroducing long-dead code. Cheers! -- Rafael > > Gioh Kim (4): > mm/compaction: enable driver page migration > mm/balloon: apply migratable-page into balloon driver > mm/compaction: apply migratable-page into compaction > mm: remove direct migration of migratable-page > > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 + > fs/proc/page.c | 4 +- > include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 42 +++++++++++++++------ > include/linux/compaction.h | 13 +++++++ > include/linux/fs.h | 2 + > include/linux/mm.h | 14 +++---- > include/linux/pagemap.h | 27 ++++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h | 2 +- > mm/balloon_compaction.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > mm/compaction.c | 9 +++-- > mm/migrate.c | 25 ++++--------- > 11 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.9.1 > > -- > 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>