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mm: compaction: defer compaction using an exponential backoff when compaction fails

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The fragmentation index may indicate that a failure is due to external
fragmentation but after a compaction run completes, it is still possible
for an allocation to fail.  There are two obvious reasons as to why

  o Page migration cannot move all pages so fragmentation remains
  o A suitable page may exist but watermarks are not met

In the event of compaction followed by an allocation failure, this patch
defers further compaction in the zone (1 << compact_defer_shift) times.
If the next compaction attempt also fails, compact_defer_shift is
increased up to a maximum of 6.  If compaction succeeds, the defer
counters are reset again.

The zone that is deferred is the first zone in the zonelist - i.e.  the
preferred zone.  To defer compaction in the other zones, the information
would need to be stored in the zonelist or implemented similar to the
zonelist_cache.  This would impact the fast-paths and is not justified at
this time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2010-05-24 14:32:32 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5e77190580
commit 4f92e2586b
3 changed files with 52 additions and 1 deletions
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39
include/linux/compaction.h
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@ -22,6 +22,36 @@ extern int sysctl_extfrag_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
extern unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask);
/* Do not skip compaction more than 64 times */
#define COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT 6
/*
* Compaction is deferred when compaction fails to result in a page
* allocation success. 1 << compact_defer_limit compactions are skipped up
* to a limit of 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT
*/
static inline void defer_compaction(struct zone *zone)
{
zone->compact_considered = 0;
zone->compact_defer_shift++;
if (zone->compact_defer_shift > COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT)
zone->compact_defer_shift = COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT;
}
/* Returns true if compaction should be skipped this time */
static inline bool compaction_deferred(struct zone *zone)
{
unsigned long defer_limit = 1UL << zone->compact_defer_shift;
/* Avoid possible overflow */
if (++zone->compact_considered > defer_limit)
zone->compact_considered = defer_limit;
return zone->compact_considered < (1UL << zone->compact_defer_shift);
}
#else
static inline unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask)
@ -29,6 +59,15 @@ static inline unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
return COMPACT_CONTINUE;
}
static inline void defer_compaction(struct zone *zone)
{
}
static inline bool compaction_deferred(struct zone *zone)
{
return 1;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
#if defined(CONFIG_COMPACTION) && defined(CONFIG_SYSFS) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA)

9
include/linux/mmzone.h
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@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ struct zone {
unsigned long *pageblock_flags;
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
/*
* On compaction failure, 1<<compact_defer_shift compactions
* are skipped before trying again. The number attempted since
* last failure is tracked with compact_considered.
*/
unsigned int compact_considered;
unsigned int compact_defer_shift;
#endif
ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)

5
mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
{
struct page *page;
if (!order)
if (!order || compaction_deferred(preferred_zone))
return NULL;
*did_some_progress = try_to_compact_pages(zonelist, order, gfp_mask,
@ -1785,6 +1785,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
alloc_flags, preferred_zone,
migratetype);
if (page) {
preferred_zone->compact_considered = 0;
preferred_zone->compact_defer_shift = 0;
count_vm_event(COMPACTSUCCESS);
return page;
}
@ -1795,6 +1797,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
* but not enough to satisfy watermarks.
*/
count_vm_event(COMPACTFAIL);
defer_compaction(preferred_zone);
cond_resched();
}