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author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2009-06-17 02:33:22 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-17 06:47:45 +0400 |
commit | fa5e084e43eb14c14942027e1e2e894aeed96097 (patch) | |
tree | 3e7ebf714858e8dd1de7042fd1ef62294a3ec20f /mm | |
parent | 90afa5de6f3fa89a733861e843377302479fcf7e (diff) | |
download | linux-fa5e084e43eb14c14942027e1e2e894aeed96097.tar.xz |
vmscan: do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full
On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that
is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA
distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that
clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not
being met. The problem is that zone_reclaim() failing at all means the
zone gets marked full.
This can cause situations where a zone is usable, but is being skipped
because it has been considered full. Take a situation where a large tmpfs
mount is occuping a large percentage of memory overall. The pages do not
get cleaned or reclaimed by zone_reclaim(), but the zone gets marked full
and the zonelist cache considers them not worth trying in the future.
This patch makes zone_reclaim() return more fine-grained information about
what occured when zone_reclaim() failued. The zone only gets marked full
if it really is unreclaimable. If it's a case that the scan did not occur
or if enough pages were not reclaimed with the limited reclaim_mode, then
the zone is simply skipped.
There is a side-effect to this patch. Currently, if zone_reclaim()
successfully reclaimed SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, an allocation attempt would go
ahead. With this patch applied, zone watermarks are rechecked after
zone_reclaim() does some work.
This bug was introduced by commit 9276b1bc96a132f4068fdee00983c532f43d3a26
("memory page_alloc zonelist caching speedup") way back in 2.6.19 when the
zonelist_cache was introduced. It was not intended that zone_reclaim()
aggressively consider the zone to be full when it failed as full direct
reclaim can still be an option. Due to the age of the bug, it should be
considered a -stable candidate.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/internal.h | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 26 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 11 |
3 files changed, 32 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index f02c7508068d..f290c4db528b 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -259,4 +259,8 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, int len, int flags, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas); +#define ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN -2 +#define ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL -1 +#define ZONE_RECLAIM_SOME 0 +#define ZONE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS 1 #endif diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 6407cbfccd77..2f457a756d46 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1462,15 +1462,33 @@ zonelist_scan: BUILD_BUG_ON(ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS < NR_WMARK); if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS)) { unsigned long mark; + int ret; + mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; - if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, - classzone_idx, alloc_flags)) { - if (!zone_reclaim_mode || - !zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order)) + if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, + classzone_idx, alloc_flags)) + goto try_this_zone; + + if (zone_reclaim_mode == 0) + goto this_zone_full; + + ret = zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order); + switch (ret) { + case ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN: + /* did not scan */ + goto try_next_zone; + case ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL: + /* scanned but unreclaimable */ + goto this_zone_full; + default: + /* did we reclaim enough */ + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, + classzone_idx, alloc_flags)) goto this_zone_full; } } +try_this_zone: page = buffered_rmqueue(preferred_zone, zone, order, gfp_mask, migratetype); if (page) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 79a98d98ed33..16c82a868e2b 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2492,16 +2492,16 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) */ if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages && zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) <= zone->min_slab_pages) - return 0; + return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL; if (zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone)) - return 0; + return ZONE_RECLAIM_FULL; /* * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed. */ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) - return 0; + return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN; /* * Only run zone reclaim on the local zone or on zones that do not @@ -2511,10 +2511,11 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) */ node_id = zone_to_nid(zone); if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id()) - return 0; + return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN; if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED)) - return 0; + return ZONE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN; + ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order); zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED); |