From: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness. Triggering the compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system usecases which may have few MB's of RAM. Enabling the proactive compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such systems. Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). So, on systems where enabling the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the same from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from userspace. This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user. [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: tweak vm.rst, per Mike] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 3 + include/linux/compaction.h | 2 + include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 kernel/sysctl.c | 2 - mm/compaction.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user +++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the -background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. +background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately +trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead --- a/include/linux/compaction.h~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user +++ a/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ static inline unsigned long compact_gap( extern unsigned int sysctl_compaction_proactiveness; extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos); +extern int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, + int write, void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos); extern int sysctl_extfrag_threshold; extern int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed; --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { enum zone_type kcompactd_highest_zoneidx; wait_queue_head_t kcompactd_wait; struct task_struct *kcompactd; + bool proactive_compact_trigger; #endif /* * This is a per-node reserve of pages that are not available --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2871,7 +2871,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_compaction_proactiveness, .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_compaction_proactiveness), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .proc_handler = compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, .extra2 = &one_hundred, }, --- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-support-triggering-of-proactive-compaction-by-user +++ a/mm/compaction.c @@ -2706,6 +2706,30 @@ static void compact_nodes(void) */ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_compaction_proactiveness = 20; +int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) +{ + int rc, nid; + + rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + if (rc) + return rc; + + if (write && sysctl_compaction_proactiveness) { + for_each_online_node(nid) { + pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); + + if (pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger) + continue; + + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = true; + wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kcompactd_wait); + } + } + + return 0; +} + /* * This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via * /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory @@ -2750,7 +2774,8 @@ void compaction_unregister_node(struct n static inline bool kcompactd_work_requested(pg_data_t *pgdat) { - return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop(); + return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop() || + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger; } static bool kcompactd_node_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat) @@ -2901,9 +2926,16 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) while (!kthread_should_stop()) { unsigned long pflags; + /* + * Avoid the unnecessary wakeup for proactive compaction + * when it is disabled. + */ + if (!sysctl_compaction_proactiveness) + timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_sleep(pgdat->node_id); if (wait_event_freezable_timeout(pgdat->kcompactd_wait, - kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), timeout)) { + kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), timeout) && + !pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger) { psi_memstall_enter(&pflags); kcompactd_do_work(pgdat); @@ -2938,6 +2970,8 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) timeout = default_timeout << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT; } + if (unlikely(pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger)) + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = false; } return 0; _
