The patch titled
Subject: mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS requests
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-compaction-allow-compaction-for-gfp_nofs-requests.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, compaction: allow compaction for GFP_NOFS requests
compaction has been disabled for GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO requests since the
direct compaction was introduced by 56de7263fcf3 ("mm: compaction: direct
compact when a high-order allocation fails"). The main reason is that the
migration of page cache pages might recurse back to fs/io layer and we
could potentially deadlock. This is overly conservative because all the
anonymous memory is migrateable in the GFP_NOFS context just fine. This
might be a large portion of the memory in many/most workkloads.
Remove the GFP_NOFS restriction and make sure that we skip all fs pages
(those with a mapping) while isolating pages to be migrated. We cannot
consider clean fs pages because they might need a metadata update so only
isolate pages without any mapping for nofs requests.
The effect of this patch will be probably very limited in many/most
workloads because higher order GFP_NOFS requests are quite rare, although
different configurations might lead to very different results. David
Chinner has mentioned a heavy metadata workload with 64kB block which to
quote him:
: Unfortunately, there was an era of cargo cult configuration tweaks in the
: Ceph community that has resulted in a large number of production machines
: with XFS filesystems configured this way. And a lot of them store large
: numbers of small files and run under significant sustained memory
: pressure.
:
: I slowly working towards getting rid of these high order allocations and
: replacing them with the equivalent number of single page allocations, but
: I haven't got that (complex) change working yet.
We can do the following to simulate that workload:
$ mkfs.xfs -f -n size=64k <dev>
$ mount <dev> /mnt/scratch
$ time ./fs_mark -D 10000 -S0 -n 100000 -s 0 -L 32 \
-d /mnt/scratch/0 -d /mnt/scratch/1 \
-d /mnt/scratch/2 -d /mnt/scratch/3 \
-d /mnt/scratch/4 -d /mnt/scratch/5 \
-d /mnt/scratch/6 -d /mnt/scratch/7 \
-d /mnt/scratch/8 -d /mnt/scratch/9 \
-d /mnt/scratch/10 -d /mnt/scratch/11 \
-d /mnt/scratch/12 -d /mnt/scratch/13 \
-d /mnt/scratch/14 -d /mnt/scratch/15
and indeed is hammers the system with many high order GFP_NOFS requests as
per a simle tracepoint during the load:
$ echo '!(gfp_flags & 0x80) && (gfp_flags &0x400000)' > $TRACE_MNT/events/kmem/mm_page_alloc/filter
I am getting
5287609 order=0
37 order=1
1594905 order=2
3048439 order=3
6699207 order=4
66645 order=5
My testing was done in a kvm guest so performance numbers should be
taken with a grain of salt but there seems to be a difference when the
patch is applied:
* Original kernel
FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
1 1600000 0 4300.1 20745838
3 3200000 0 4239.9 23849857
5 4800000 0 4243.4 25939543
6 6400000 0 4248.4 19514050
8 8000000 0 4262.1 20796169
9 9600000 0 4257.6 21288675
11 11200000 0 4259.7 19375120
13 12800000 0 4220.7 22734141
14 14400000 0 4238.5 31936458
16 16000000 0 4231.5 23409901
18 17600000 0 4045.3 23577700
19 19200000 0 2783.4 58299526
21 20800000 0 2678.2 40616302
23 22400000 0 2693.5 83973996
and xfs complaining about memory allocation not making progress
[ 2304.372647] XFS: fs_mark(3289) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65624 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
[ 2304.443323] XFS: fs_mark(3285) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65728 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
[ 4796.772477] XFS: fs_mark(3424) possible memory allocation deadlock size 46936 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
[ 4796.775329] XFS: fs_mark(3423) possible memory allocation deadlock size 51416 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
[ 4797.388808] XFS: fs_mark(3424) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65728 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
* Patched kernel
FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
1 1600000 0 4289.1 19243934
3 3200000 0 4241.6 32828865
5 4800000 0 4248.7 32884693
6 6400000 0 4314.4 19608921
8 8000000 0 4269.9 24953292
9 9600000 0 4270.7 33235572
11 11200000 0 4346.4 40817101
13 12800000 0 4285.3 29972397
14 14400000 0 4297.2 20539765
16 16000000 0 4219.6 18596767
18 17600000 0 4273.8 49611187
19 19200000 0 4300.4 27944451
21 20800000 0 4270.6 22324585
22 22400000 0 4317.6 22650382
24 24000000 0 4065.2 22297964
So the dropdown at Count 19200000 didn't happen and there was only a
single warning about allocation not making progress
[ 3063.815003] XFS: fs_mark(3272) possible memory allocation deadlock size 65624 in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2408240)
This suggests that the patch has helped even though there is not all that
much of anonymous memory as the workload mostly generates fs metadata. I
assume the success rate would be higher with more anonymous memory which
should be the case in many workloads.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161012114721.31853-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-allow-compaction-for-gfp_nofs-requests mm/compaction.c
--- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-allow-compaction-for-gfp_nofs-requests
+++ a/mm/compaction.c
@@ -818,6 +818,13 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
page_count(page) > page_mapcount(page))
goto isolate_fail;
+ /*
+ * Only allow to migrate anonymous pages in GFP_NOFS context
+ * because those do not depend on fs locks.
+ */
+ if (!(cc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && page_mapping(page))
+ goto isolate_fail;
+
/* If we already hold the lock, we can skip some rechecking */
if (!locked) {
locked = compact_trylock_irqsave(zone_lru_lock(zone),
@@ -1677,14 +1684,16 @@ enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages
unsigned int alloc_flags, const struct alloc_context *ac,
enum compact_priority prio)
{
- int may_enter_fs = gfp_mask & __GFP_FS;
int may_perform_io = gfp_mask & __GFP_IO;
struct zoneref *z;
struct zone *zone;
enum compact_result rc = COMPACT_SKIPPED;
- /* Check if the GFP flags allow compaction */
- if (!may_enter_fs || !may_perform_io)
+ /*
+ * Check if the GFP flags allow compaction - GFP_NOIO is really
+ * tricky context because the migration might require IO
+ */
+ if (!may_perform_io)
return COMPACT_SKIPPED;
trace_mm_compaction_try_to_compact_pages(order, gfp_mask, prio);
@@ -1751,6 +1760,7 @@ static void compact_node(int nid)
.mode = MIGRATE_SYNC,
.ignore_skip_hint = true,
.whole_zone = true,
+ .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
};
@@ -1876,6 +1886,7 @@ static void kcompactd_do_work(pg_data_t
.classzone_idx = pgdat->kcompactd_classzone_idx,
.mode = MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
.ignore_skip_hint = true,
+ .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
};
trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_wake(pgdat->node_id, cc.order,
_
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