From: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: compaction: optimize proactive compaction deferrals Vlastimil Babka figured out that when fragmentation score didn't go down across the proactive compaction i.e. when no progress is made, next wake up for proactive compaction is deferred for 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT, i.e. 64 times, with each wakeup interval of HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC(=500). In each of this wakeup, it just decrement 'proactive_defer' counter and goes sleep i.e. it is getting woken to just decrement a counter. The same deferral time can also achieved by simply doing the HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT thus unnecessary wakeup of kcompact thread is avoided thus also removes the need of 'proactive_defer' thread counter. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: tweak comment] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/88abfdb6-2c13-b5a6-5b46-742d12d1c910@xxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1626869599-25412-1-git-send-email-charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-optimize-proactive-compaction-deferrals +++ a/mm/compaction.c @@ -2885,7 +2885,8 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) { pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t *)p; struct task_struct *tsk = current; - unsigned int proactive_defer = 0; + long default_timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC); + long timeout = default_timeout; const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id); @@ -2902,23 +2903,30 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_sleep(pgdat->node_id); if (wait_event_freezable_timeout(pgdat->kcompactd_wait, - kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), - msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC))) { + kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), timeout)) { psi_memstall_enter(&pflags); kcompactd_do_work(pgdat); psi_memstall_leave(&pflags); + /* + * Reset the timeout value. The defer timeout from + * proactive compaction is lost here but that is fine + * as the condition of the zone changing substantionally + * then carrying on with the previous defer interval is + * not useful. + */ + timeout = default_timeout; continue; } - /* kcompactd wait timeout */ + /* + * Start the proactive work with default timeout. Based + * on the fragmentation score, this timeout is updated. + */ + timeout = default_timeout; if (should_proactive_compact_node(pgdat)) { unsigned int prev_score, score; - if (proactive_defer) { - proactive_defer--; - continue; - } prev_score = fragmentation_score_node(pgdat); proactive_compact_node(pgdat); score = fragmentation_score_node(pgdat); @@ -2926,8 +2934,9 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) * Defer proactive compaction if the fragmentation * score did not go down i.e. no progress made. */ - proactive_defer = score < prev_score ? - 0 : 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT; + if (unlikely(score >= prev_score)) + timeout = + default_timeout << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT; } } _
