This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-zone_normal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 675becce15f320337499bc1a9356260409a5ba29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:07:35 -0700
Subject: mm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
commit 675becce15f320337499bc1a9356260409a5ba29 upstream.
throttle_direct_reclaim() is meant to trigger during swap-over-network
during which the min watermark is treated as a pfmemalloc reserve. It
throttes on the first node in the zonelist but this is flawed.
The user-visible impact is that a process running on CPU whose local
memory node has no ZONE_NORMAL will stall for prolonged periods of time,
possibly indefintely. This is due to throttle_direct_reclaim thinking the
pfmemalloc reserves are depleted when in fact they don't exist on that
node.
On a NUMA machine running a 32-bit kernel (I know) allocation requests
from CPUs on node 1 would detect no pfmemalloc reserves and the process
gets throttled. This patch adjusts throttling of direct reclaim to
throttle based on the first node in the zonelist that has a usable
ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2502,10 +2502,17 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_d
for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) {
zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
+
pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone);
free_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
}
+ /* If there are no reserves (unexpected config) then do not throttle */
+ if (!pfmemalloc_reserve)
+ return true;
+
wmark_ok = free_pages > pfmemalloc_reserve / 2;
/* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */
@@ -2530,9 +2537,9 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_d
static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist,
nodemask_t *nodemask)
{
+ struct zoneref *z;
struct zone *zone;
- int high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
- pg_data_t *pgdat;
+ pg_data_t *pgdat = NULL;
/*
* Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly
@@ -2551,10 +2558,34 @@ static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
goto out;
- /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */
- first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, NULL, &zone);
- pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
- if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
+ /*
+ * Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok by finding the first node
+ * with a usable ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone. The expectation is that
+ * GFP_KERNEL will be required for allocating network buffers when
+ * swapping over the network so ZONE_HIGHMEM is unusable.
+ *
+ * Throttling is based on the first usable node and throttled processes
+ * wait on a queue until kswapd makes progress and wakes them. There
+ * is an affinity then between processes waking up and where reclaim
+ * progress has been made assuming the process wakes on the same node.
+ * More importantly, processes running on remote nodes will not compete
+ * for remote pfmemalloc reserves and processes on different nodes
+ * should make reasonable progress.
+ */
+ for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
+ gfp_mask, nodemask) {
+ if (zone_idx(zone) > ZONE_NORMAL)
+ continue;
+
+ /* Throttle based on the first usable node */
+ pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
+ if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
+ goto out;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /* If no zone was usable by the allocation flags then do not throttle */
+ if (!pgdat)
goto out;
/* Account for the throttling */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-word-based-accesses-for-get-set-pageblock-bitmaps.patch
queue-3.14/mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-zone_normal.patch
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