The patch titled Subject: mm, compaction: distinguish COMPACT_DEFERRED from COMPACT_SKIPPED has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, compaction: distinguish COMPACT_DEFERRED from COMPACT_SKIPPED try_to_compact_pages() can currently return COMPACT_SKIPPED even when the compaction is defered for some zone just because zone DMA is skipped in 99% of cases due to watermark checks. This makes COMPACT_DEFERRED basically unusable for the page allocator as a feedback mechanism. Make sure we distinguish those two states properly and switch their ordering in the enum. This would mean that the COMPACT_SKIPPED will be returned only when all eligible zones are skipped. As a result COMPACT_DEFERRED handling for THP in __alloc_pages_slowpath will be more precise and we would bail out rather than reclaim. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/compaction.h | 7 +++++-- include/trace/events/compaction.h | 2 +- mm/compaction.c | 8 +++++--- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/compaction.h~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped include/linux/compaction.h --- a/include/linux/compaction.h~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped +++ a/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ /* Return values for compact_zone() and try_to_compact_pages() */ /* When adding new states, please adjust include/trace/events/compaction.h */ enum compact_result { - /* compaction didn't start as it was deferred due to past failures */ - COMPACT_DEFERRED, /* * compaction didn't start as it was not possible or direct reclaim * was more suitable */ COMPACT_SKIPPED, + /* compaction didn't start as it was deferred due to past failures */ + COMPACT_DEFERRED, + /* compaction not active last round */ + COMPACT_INACTIVE = COMPACT_DEFERRED, + /* compaction should continue to another pageblock */ COMPACT_CONTINUE, /* diff -puN include/trace/events/compaction.h~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped include/trace/events/compaction.h --- a/include/trace/events/compaction.h~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped +++ a/include/trace/events/compaction.h @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ #include <trace/events/mmflags.h> #define COMPACTION_STATUS \ - EM( COMPACT_DEFERRED, "deferred") \ EM( COMPACT_SKIPPED, "skipped") \ + EM( COMPACT_DEFERRED, "deferred") \ EM( COMPACT_CONTINUE, "continue") \ EM( COMPACT_PARTIAL, "partial") \ EM( COMPACT_COMPLETE, "complete") \ diff -puN mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped mm/compaction.c --- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-distinguish-compact_deferred-from-compact_skipped +++ a/mm/compaction.c @@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@ enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages int may_perform_io = gfp_mask & __GFP_IO; struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; - enum compact_result rc = COMPACT_DEFERRED; + enum compact_result rc = COMPACT_SKIPPED; int all_zones_contended = COMPACT_CONTENDED_LOCK; /* init for &= op */ *contended = COMPACT_CONTENDED_NONE; @@ -1595,8 +1595,10 @@ enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages enum compact_result status; int zone_contended; - if (compaction_deferred(zone, order)) + if (compaction_deferred(zone, order)) { + rc = max_t(enum compact_result, COMPACT_DEFERRED, rc); continue; + } status = compact_zone_order(zone, order, gfp_mask, mode, &zone_contended, alloc_flags, @@ -1667,7 +1669,7 @@ break_loop: * If at least one zone wasn't deferred or skipped, we report if all * zones that were tried were lock contended. */ - if (rc > COMPACT_SKIPPED && all_zones_contended) + if (rc > COMPACT_INACTIVE && all_zones_contended) *contended = COMPACT_CONTENDED_LOCK; return rc; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are mm-compaction-distinguish-between-full-and-partial-compact_complete.patch mm-compaction-update-compaction_result-ordering.patch mm-compaction-simplify-__alloc_pages_direct_compact-feedback-interface.patch mm-compaction-abstract-compaction-feedback-to-helpers.patch mm-oom-rework-oom-detection.patch mm-throttle-on-io-only-when-there-are-too-many-dirty-and-writeback-pages.patch mm-oom-protect-costly-allocations-some-more.patch mm-consider-compaction-feedback-also-for-costly-allocation.patch mm-oom-compaction-prevent-from-should_compact_retry-looping-for-ever-for-costly-orders.patch mm-oom-protect-costly-allocations-some-more-for-config_compaction.patch mm-oom_reaper-hide-oom-reaped-tasks-from-oom-killer-more-carefully.patch mm-oom_reaper-do-not-mmput-synchronously-from-the-oom-reaper-context.patch oom-consider-multi-threaded-tasks-in-task_will_free_mem.patch mm-make-mmap_sem-for-write-waits-killable-for-mm-syscalls.patch mm-make-vm_mmap-killable.patch mm-make-vm_munmap-killable.patch mm-aout-handle-vm_brk-failures.patch mm-elf-handle-vm_brk-error.patch mm-make-vm_brk-killable.patch mm-proc-make-clear_refs-killable.patch mm-fork-make-dup_mmap-wait-for-mmap_sem-for-write-killable.patch ipc-shm-make-shmem-attach-detach-wait-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch vdso-make-arch_setup_additional_pages-wait-for-mmap_sem-for-write-killable.patch coredump-make-coredump_wait-wait-for-mmap_sem-for-write-killable.patch aio-make-aio_setup_ring-killable.patch exec-make-exec-path-waiting-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch prctl-make-pr_set_thp_disable-wait-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch uprobes-wait-for-mmap_sem-for-write-killable.patch drm-i915-make-i915_gem_mmap_ioctl-wait-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch drm-radeon-make-radeon_mn_get-wait-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch drm-amdgpu-make-amdgpu_mn_get-wait-for-mmap_sem-killable.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html