BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/include/linux/mmzone.h, branch dev-4.7

mm fix commmets: if SPARSEMEM, pgdata doesn't have page_ext

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

If SPARSEMEM, use page_ext in mem_section if !SPARSEMEM, use page_ext in pgdata Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom, compaction: prevent from should_compact_retry looping for ever for costly orders

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

"mm: consider compaction feedback also for costly allocation" has removed the upper bound for the reclaim/compaction retries based on the number of reclaimed pages for costly orders. While this is desirable the patch did miss a mis interaction between reclaim, compaction and the retry logic. The direct reclaim tries to get zones over min watermark while compaction backs off and returns COMPACT_SKIPPED when all zones are below low watermark + 1< Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

The function call overhead of get_pfnblock_flags_mask() is measurable in the page free paths. This patch uses an inlined version that is faster. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

The allocator fast path looks up the first usable zone in a zonelist and then get_page_from_freelist does the same job in the zonelist iterator. This patch preserves the necessary information. 4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2 fastmark-v1r20 initonce-v1r20 Min alloc-odr0-1 364.00 ( 0.00%) 359.00 ( 1.37%) Min alloc-odr0-2 262.00 ( 0.00%) 260.00 ( 0.76%) Min alloc-odr0-4 214.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 186.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-32 165.00 ( 0.00%) 165.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-64 161.00 ( 0.00%) 162.00 ( -0.62%) Min alloc-odr0-128 159.00 ( 0.00%) 161.00 ( -1.26%) Min alloc-odr0-256 168.00 ( 0.00%) 170.00 ( -1.19%) Min alloc-odr0-512 180.00 ( 0.00%) 181.00 ( -0.56%) Min alloc-odr0-1024 190.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-2048 196.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-4096 202.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-8192 206.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 0.49%) Min alloc-odr0-16384 206.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 0.49%) The benefit is negligible and the results are within the noise but each cycle counts. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: convert alloc_flags to unsigned

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

alloc_flags is a bitmask of flags but it is signed which does not necessarily generate the best code depending on the compiler. Even without an impact, it makes more sense that this be unsigned. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

The page allocator iterates through a zonelist for zones that match the addressing limitations and nodemask of the caller but many allocations will not be restricted. Despite this, there is always functional call overhead which builds up. This patch inlines the optimistic basic case and only calls the iterator function for the complex case. A hindrance was the fact that cpuset_current_mems_allowed is used in the fastpath as the allowed nodemask even though all nodes are allowed on most systems. The patch handles this by only considering cpuset_current_mems_allowed if a cpuset exists. As well as being faster in the fast-path, this removes some junk in the slowpath. The performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is; 4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2 statinline-v1r20 optiter-v1r20 Min alloc-odr0-1 412.00 ( 0.00%) 382.00 ( 7.28%) Min alloc-odr0-2 301.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 6.31%) Min alloc-odr0-4 247.00 ( 0.00%) 233.00 ( 5.67%) Min alloc-odr0-8 215.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 5.58%) Min alloc-odr0-16 199.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 5.53%) Min alloc-odr0-32 191.00 ( 0.00%) 182.00 ( 4.71%) Min alloc-odr0-64 187.00 ( 0.00%) 177.00 ( 5.35%) Min alloc-odr0-128 185.00 ( 0.00%) 175.00 ( 5.41%) Min alloc-odr0-256 193.00 ( 0.00%) 184.00 ( 4.66%) Min alloc-odr0-512 207.00 ( 0.00%) 197.00 ( 4.83%) Min alloc-odr0-1024 213.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 4.69%) Min alloc-odr0-2048 220.00 ( 0.00%) 209.00 ( 5.00%) Min alloc-odr0-4096 226.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 5.31%) Min alloc-odr0-8192 229.00 ( 0.00%) 218.00 ( 4.80%) Min alloc-odr0-16384 229.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 4.37%) perf indicated that next_zones_zonelist disappeared in the profile and __next_zones_zonelist did not appear. This is expected as the micro-benchmark would hit the inlined fast-path every time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/highmem: simplify is_highmem()

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

is_highmem() can be simplified by use of is_highmem_idx(). This patch removes redundant code and will make it easier to maintain if the zone policy is changed or a new zone is added. (akpm: saves me 25 bytes of text per is_highmem() callsite) Signed-off-by: Chanho Min Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and cause thundering herds in direct reclaim. Unfortunately, the only way to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the system's latency requirements. In order to get kswapd to maintain a 250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G. That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason. On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well. Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory. Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula never chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve. On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, compaction: introduce kcompactd

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

Memory compaction can be currently performed in several contexts: - kswapd balancing a zone after a high-order allocation failure - direct compaction to satisfy a high-order allocation, including THP page fault attemps - khugepaged trying to collapse a hugepage - manually from /proc The purpose of compaction is two-fold. The obvious purpose is to satisfy a (pending or future) high-order allocation, and is easy to evaluate. The other purpose is to keep overal memory fragmentation low and help the anti-fragmentation mechanism. The success wrt the latter purpose is more The current situation wrt the purposes has a few drawbacks: - compaction is invoked only when a high-order page or hugepage is not available (or manually). This might be too late for the purposes of keeping memory fragmentation low. - direct compaction increases latency of allocations. Again, it would be better if compaction was performed asynchronously to keep fragmentation low, before the allocation itself comes. - (a special case of the previous) the cost of compaction during THP page faults can easily offset the benefits of THP. - kswapd compaction appears to be complex, fragile and not working in some scenarios. It could also end up compacting for a high-order allocation request when it should be reclaiming memory for a later order-0 request. To improve the situation, we should be able to benefit from an equivalent of kswapd, but for compaction - i.e. a background thread which responds to fragmentation and the need for high-order allocations (including hugepages) somewhat proactively. One possibility is to extend the responsibilities of kswapd, which could however complicate its design too much. It should be better to let kswapd handle reclaim, as order-0 allocations are often more critical than high-order ones. Another possibility is to extend khugepaged, but this kthread is a single instance and tied to THP configs. This patch goes with the option of a new set of per-node kthreads called kcompactd, and lays the foundations, without introducing any new tunables. The lifecycle mimics kswapd kthreads, including the memory hotplug hooks. For compaction, kcompactd uses the standard compaction_suitable() and ompact_finished() criteria and the deferred compaction functionality. Unlike direct compaction, it uses only sync compaction, as there's no allocation latency to minimize. This patch doesn't yet add a call to wakeup_kcompactd. The kswapd compact/reclaim loop for high-order pages will be replaced by waking up kcompactd in the next patch with the description of what's wrong with the old approach. Waking up of the kcompactd threads is also tied to kswapd activity and follows these rules: - we don't want to affect any fastpaths, so wake up kcompactd only from the slowpath, as it's done for kswapd - if kswapd is doing reclaim, it's more important than compaction, so don't invoke kcompactd until kswapd goes to sleep - the target order used for kswapd is passed to kcompactd Future possible future uses for kcompactd include the ability to wake up kcompactd on demand in special situations, such as when hugepages are not available (currently not done due to __GFP_NO_KSWAPD) or when a fragmentation event (i.e. __rmqueue_fallback()) occurs. It's also possible to perform periodic compaction with kcompactd. [arnd@arndb.de: fix build errors with kcompactd] [paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: don't use modular references for non modular code] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous

2016-03-15T23:55:16+00:00

There is a performance drop report due to hugepage allocation and in there half of cpu time are spent on pageblock_pfn_to_page() in compaction [1]. In that workload, compaction is triggered to make hugepage but most of pageblocks are un-available for compaction due to pageblock type and skip bit so compaction usually fails. Most costly operations in this case is to find valid pageblock while scanning whole zone range. To check if pageblock is valid to compact, valid pfn within pageblock is required and we can obtain it by calling pageblock_pfn_to_page(). This function checks whether pageblock is in a single zone and return valid pfn if possible. Problem is that we need to check it every time before scanning pageblock even if we re-visit it and this turns out to be very expensive in this workload. Although we have no way to skip this pageblock check in the system where hole exists at arbitrary position, we can use cached value for zone continuity and just do pfn_to_page() in the system where hole doesn't exist. This optimization considerably speeds up in above workload. Before vs After Max: 1096 MB/s vs 1325 MB/s Min: 635 MB/s 1015 MB/s Avg: 899 MB/s 1194 MB/s Avg is improved by roughly 30% [2]. [1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg97378.html [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/9/23 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't forget to restore zone->contiguous on error path, per Vlastimil] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reported-by: Aaron Lu Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Tested-by: Aaron Lu Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds