The patch titled
vmscan: low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync.patch
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Subject: vmscan: low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Commit 33c120ed2843090e2bd316de1588b8bf8b96cbde ("more aggressively use
lumpy reclaim") increased how aggressive lumpy reclaim was by isolating
both active and inactive pages for asynchronous lumpy reclaim on
costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order when memory pressure is
high. However, if the system is under heavy pressure and there are dirty
pages, asynchronous IO may not be sufficient to reclaim a suitable page in
time.
This patch causes the caller to enter synchronous lumpy reclaim for
costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order pages when under memory
pressure.
Minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx said:
Andy added synchronous lumpy reclaim with
c661b078fd62abe06fd11fab4ac5e4eeafe26b6d. At that time, lumpy reclaim is
not agressive. His intension is just for high-order users.(above
PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).
After some time, Rik added aggressive lumpy reclaim with
33c120ed2843090e2bd316de1588b8bf8b96cbde. His intention was to do lumpy
reclaim when high-order users and trouble getting a small set of
contiguous pages.
So we also have to add synchronous pageout for small set of contiguous
pages.
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <Minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1059,6 +1059,19 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
unsigned long nr_scanned = 0;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
+ int lumpy_reclaim = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * If we need a large contiguous chunk of memory, or have
+ * trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages, we
+ * will reclaim both active and inactive pages.
+ *
+ * We use the same threshold as pageout congestion_wait below.
+ */
+ if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ lumpy_reclaim = 1;
+ else if (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
+ lumpy_reclaim = 1;
pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
@@ -1071,19 +1084,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
unsigned long nr_freed;
unsigned long nr_active;
unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
- int mode = ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
-
- /*
- * If we need a large contiguous chunk of memory, or have
- * trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages, we
- * will reclaim both active and inactive pages.
- *
- * We use the same threshold as pageout congestion_wait below.
- */
- if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
- mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;
- else if (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
- mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;
+ int mode = lumpy_reclaim ? ISOLATE_BOTH : ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
nr_taken = sc->isolate_pages(sc->swap_cluster_max,
&page_list, &nr_scan, sc->order, mode,
@@ -1120,7 +1121,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
* but that should be acceptable to the caller
*/
if (nr_freed < nr_taken && !current_is_kswapd() &&
- sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) {
+ lumpy_reclaim) {
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
memcg-fix-mem_cgroup_shrink_usage.patch
procfs-make-errno-values-consistent-when-open-pident-vs-exit2-race-occurs.patch
vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync.patch
getrusage-fill-ru_maxrss-value.patch
softirq-introduce-statistics-for-softirq.patch
proc-export-statistics-for-softirq-to-proc.patch
proc-update-document-for-proc-softirqs-and-proc-stat.patch
memcg-add-file-based-rss-accounting.patch
fs-symlink-write_begin-allocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch
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