If the memory compaction free scanner cannot successfully split a free
page (only possible due to per-zone low watermark), terminate the free
scanner rather than continuing to scan memory needlessly. If the
watermark is insufficient for a free page of order <= cc->order, then
terminate the scanner since all future splits will also likely fail.
This prevents the compaction freeing scanner from scanning all memory on
very large zones (very noticeable for zones > 128GB, for instance) when
all splits will likely fail while holding zone->lock.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Based on Linus's tree
Suggest including in 4.7 if anybody else agrees?
mm/compaction.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -441,25 +441,23 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
/* Found a free page, break it into order-0 pages */
isolated = split_free_page(page);
+ if (!isolated)
+ break;
+
total_isolated += isolated;
+ cc->nr_freepages += isolated;
for (i = 0; i < isolated; i++) {
list_add(&page->lru, freelist);
page++;
}
-
- /* If a page was split, advance to the end of it */
- if (isolated) {
- cc->nr_freepages += isolated;
- if (!strict &&
- cc->nr_migratepages <= cc->nr_freepages) {
- blockpfn += isolated;
- break;
- }
-
- blockpfn += isolated - 1;
- cursor += isolated - 1;
- continue;
+ if (!strict && cc->nr_migratepages <= cc->nr_freepages) {
+ blockpfn += isolated;
+ break;
}
+ /* Advance to the end of split page */
+ blockpfn += isolated - 1;
+ cursor += isolated - 1;
+ continue;
isolate_fail:
if (strict)
@@ -469,6 +467,9 @@ isolate_fail:
}
+ if (locked)
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cc->zone->lock, flags);
+
/*
* There is a tiny chance that we have read bogus compound_order(),
* so be careful to not go outside of the pageblock.
@@ -490,9 +491,6 @@ isolate_fail:
if (strict && blockpfn < end_pfn)
total_isolated = 0;
- if (locked)
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cc->zone->lock, flags);
-
/* Update the pageblock-skip if the whole pageblock was scanned */
if (blockpfn == end_pfn)
update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, total_isolated, false);
@@ -1011,6 +1009,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
block_end_pfn = block_start_pfn,
block_start_pfn -= pageblock_nr_pages,
isolate_start_pfn = block_start_pfn) {
+ unsigned long isolated;
/*
* This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any
@@ -1035,8 +1034,12 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
continue;
/* Found a block suitable for isolating free pages from. */
- isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn,
- block_end_pfn, freelist, false);
+ isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, &isolate_start_pfn,
+ block_end_pfn, freelist, false);
+ /* If isolation failed early, do not continue needlessly */
+ if (!isolated && isolate_start_pfn < block_end_pfn &&
+ cc->nr_migratepages > cc->nr_freepages)
+ break;
/*
* If we isolated enough freepages, or aborted due to async
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