The patch titled Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix nodes for reclaim in fast path has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix nodes for reclaim in fast path When @node_reclaim_node isn't 0, the page allocator tries to reclaim pages if the amount of free memory in the zones are below the low watermark. On Power platform, none of NUMA nodes are scanned for page reclaim because no nodes match the condition in zone_allows_reclaim(). On Power platform, RECLAIM_DISTANCE is set to 10 which is the distance of Node-A to Node-A. So the preferred node even won't be scanned for page reclaim. __alloc_pages_nodemask() get_page_from_freelist() zone_allows_reclaim() Anton proposed the test code as below: # cat alloc.c : int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { void *p; unsigned long size; unsigned long start, end; start = time(NULL); size = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0); printf("To allocate %ldGB memory\n", size); size <<= 30; p = malloc(size); assert(p); memset(p, 0, size); end = time(NULL); printf("Used time: %ld seconds\n", end - start); sleep(3600); return 0; } The system I use for testing has two NUMA nodes. Both have 128GB memory. In below scnario, the page caches on node#0 should be reclaimed when it encounters pressure to accommodate request of allocation. # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode; \ sync; \ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; \ # taskset -c 0 cat file.32G > /dev/null; \ grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33619712 kB # taskset -c 0 ./alloc 128 # grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33619840 kB # grep MemFree /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 MemFree: 186816 kB With the patch applied, the pagecache on node-0 is reclaimed when its free memory is running out. It's the expected behaviour. # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode; \ sync; \ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # taskset -c 0 cat file.32G > /dev/null; \ grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33605568 kB # taskset -c 0 ./alloc 128 # grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 1379520 kB # grep MemFree /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 MemFree: 317120 kB Fixes: 5f7a75acdb24 ("mm: page_alloc: do not cache reclaim distances") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486532455-29613-1-git-send-email-gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.16+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2944,7 +2944,7 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone) { - return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) < + return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <= RECLAIM_DISTANCE; } #else /* CONFIG_NUMA */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gwshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-page_alloc-fix-nodes-for-reclaim-in-fast-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html