The patch titled
Subject: mm, migrate: immediately fail migration of a page with no migration handler
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-migrate-immediately-fail-migration-of-a-page-with-no-migration-handler.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-migrate-immediately-fail-migration-of-a-page-with-no-migration-handler.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-migrate-immediately-fail-migration-of-a-page-with-no-migration-handler.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, migrate: immediately fail migration of a page with no migration handler
Pages with no migration handler use a fallback handler which sometimes
works and sometimes persistently retries. A historical example was
blockdev pages but there are others such as odd refcounting when
page->private is used. These are retried multiple times which is wasteful
during compaction so this patch will fail migration faster unless the
caller specifies MIGRATE_SYNC.
This is not expected to help THP allocation success rates but it did
reduce latencies very slightly in some cases.
1-socket thpfioscale
4.20.0 4.20.0
noreserved-v2r15 failfast-v2r15
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 3839.67 ( 0.00%) 3833.72 ( 0.15%)
Amean fault-both-5 5177.47 ( 0.00%) 4967.15 ( 4.06%)
Amean fault-both-7 7245.03 ( 0.00%) 7139.19 ( 1.46%)
Amean fault-both-12 11534.89 ( 0.00%) 11326.30 ( 1.81%)
Amean fault-both-18 16241.10 ( 0.00%) 16270.70 ( -0.18%)
Amean fault-both-24 19075.91 ( 0.00%) 19839.65 ( -4.00%)
Amean fault-both-30 22712.11 ( 0.00%) 21707.05 ( 4.43%)
Amean fault-both-32 21692.92 ( 0.00%) 21968.16 ( -1.27%)
The 2-socket results are not materially different. Scan rates are similar
as expected.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190104125011.16071-8-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-immediately-fail-migration-of-a-page-with-no-migration-handler
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ static int fallback_migrate_page(struct
*/
if (page_has_private(page) &&
!try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL))
- return -EAGAIN;
+ return mode == MIGRATE_SYNC ? -EAGAIN : -EBUSY;
return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-do-not-wake-kswapd-with-zone-lock-held.patch
mm-compaction-shrink-compact_control.patch
mm-compaction-rearrange-compact_control.patch
mm-compaction-remove-last_migrated_pfn-from-compact_control.patch
mm-compaction-remove-unnecessary-zone-parameter-in-some-instances.patch
mm-compaction-rename-map_pages-to-split_map_pages.patch
mm-compaction-skip-pageblocks-with-reserved-pages.patch
mm-migrate-immediately-fail-migration-of-a-page-with-no-migration-handler.patch
mm-compaction-always-finish-scanning-of-a-full-pageblock.patch
mm-compaction-use-the-page-allocator-bulk-free-helper-for-lists-of-pages.patch
mm-compaction-ignore-the-fragmentation-avoidance-boost-for-isolation-and-compaction.patch
mm-compaction-use-free-lists-to-quickly-locate-a-migration-source.patch
mm-compaction-keep-migration-source-private-to-a-single-compaction-instance.patch
mm-compaction-use-free-lists-to-quickly-locate-a-migration-target.patch
mm-compaction-avoid-rescanning-the-same-pageblock-multiple-times.patch
mm-compaction-finish-pageblock-scanning-on-contention.patch
mm-compaction-check-early-for-huge-pages-encountered-by-the-migration-scanner.patch
mm-compaction-keep-cached-migration-pfns-synced-for-unusable-pageblocks.patch
mm-compaction-rework-compact_should_abort-as-compact_check_resched.patch
mm-compaction-do-not-consider-a-need-to-reschedule-as-contention.patch
mm-compaction-reduce-unnecessary-skipping-of-migration-target-scanner.patch
mm-compaction-round-robin-the-order-while-searching-the-free-lists-for-a-target.patch
mm-compaction-sample-pageblocks-for-free-pages.patch
mm-compaction-be-selective-about-what-pageblocks-to-clear-skip-hints.patch
mm-compaction-capture-a-page-under-direct-compaction.patch
mm-compaction-do-not-direct-compact-remote-memory.patch
