From 55b7c4c99f6a448f72179297fe6432544f220063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:51:11 -0800 Subject: mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet Compaction used to start its migrate and free page scaners at the zone's lowest and highest pfn, respectively. Later, caching was introduced to remember the scanners' progress across compaction attempts so that pageblocks are not re-scanned uselessly. Additionally, pageblocks where isolation failed are marked to be quickly skipped when encountered again in future compactions. Currently, both the reset of cached pfn's and clearing of the pageblock skip information for a zone is done in __reset_isolation_suitable(). This function gets called when: - compaction is restarting after being deferred - compact_blockskip_flush flag is set in compact_finished() when the scanners meet (and not again cleared when direct compaction succeeds in allocation) and kswapd acts upon this flag before going to sleep This behavior is suboptimal for several reasons: - when direct sync compaction is called after async compaction fails (in the allocation slowpath), it will effectively do nothing, unless kswapd happens to process the compact_blockskip_flush flag meanwhile. This is racy and goes against the purpose of sync compaction to more thoroughly retry the compaction of a zone where async compaction has failed. The restart-after-deferring path cannot help here as deferring happens only after the sync compaction fails. It is also done only for the preferred zone, while the compaction might be done for a fallback zone. - the mechanism of marking pageblock to be skipped has little value since the cached pfn's are reset only together with the pageblock skip flags. This effectively limits pageblock skip usage to parallel compactions. This patch changes compact_finished() so that cached pfn's are reset immediately when the scanners meet. Clearing pageblock skip flags is unchanged, as well as the other situations where cached pfn's are reset. This allows the sync-after-async compaction to retry pageblocks not marked as skipped, such as blocks !MIGRATE_MOVABLE blocks that async compactions now skips without marking them. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/compaction.c') diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 32a033cb5c65..3a91a2ea3d34 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -851,6 +851,10 @@ static int compact_finished(struct zone *zone, /* Compaction run completes if the migrate and free scanner meet */ if (cc->free_pfn <= cc->migrate_pfn) { + /* Let the next compaction start anew. */ + zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn; + zone->compact_cached_free_pfn = zone_end_pfn(zone); + /* * Mark that the PG_migrate_skip information should be cleared * by kswapd when it goes to sleep. kswapd does not set the -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522