- 11 Sep, 2013 40 commits
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
Explicitly mention/recommend using the libhugetlbfs test cases when changing related kernel code. Developers that are unaware of the project can easily miss this and introduce potential regressions that may or may not be caught by community review. Also do some cleanups that make the document visually easier to view at a first glance. Signed-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fengguang Wu authored
This helps performance on moderately dense random reads on SSD. Transaction-Per-Second numbers provided by Taobao: QPS case ------------------------------------------------------- 7536 disable context readahead totally w/ patch: 7129 slower size rampup and start RA on the 3rd read 6717 slower size rampup w/o patch: 5581 unmodified context readahead Before, readahead will be started whenever reading page N+1 when it happen to read N recently. After patch, we'll only start readahead when *three* random reads happen to access pages N, N+1, N+2. The probability of this happening is extremely low for pure random reads, unless they are very dense, which actually deserves some readahead. Also start with a smaller readahead window. The impact to interleaved sequential reads should be small, because for a long run stream, the the small readahead window rampup phase is negletable. The context readahead actually benefits clustered random reads on HDD whose seek cost is pretty high. However as SSD is increasingly used for random read workloads it's better for the context readahead to concentrate on interleaved sequential reads. Another SSD rand read test from Miao # file size: 2GB # read IO amount: 625MB sysbench --test=fileio \ --max-requests=10000 \ --num-threads=1 \ --file-num=1 \ --file-block-size=64K \ --file-test-mode=rndrd \ --file-fsync-freq=0 \ --file-fsync-end=off run shows the performance of btrfs grows up from 69MB/s to 121MB/s, ext4 from 104MB/s to 121MB/s. Signed-off-by:Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by:
Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma> Tested-by:
Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
Use "zone_is_initialized()" instead of "if (zone->wait_table)". Simplify the code, no functional change. Signed-off-by:
Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
Use "zone_is_empty()" instead of "if (zone->spanned_pages)". Simplify the code, no functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
Use "zone_end_pfn()" instead of "zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages". Simplify the code, no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by:
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Joonyoung Shim authored
In struct gen_pool_chunk, end_addr means the end address of memory chunk (inclusive), but in the implementation it is treated as address + size of memory chunk (exclusive), so it points to the address plus one instead of correct ending address. The ending address of memory chunk plus one will cause overflow on the memory chunk including the last address of memory map, e.g. when starting address is 0xFFF00000 and size is 0x100000 on 32bit machine, ending address will be 0x100000000. Use correct ending address like starting address + size - 1. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to struct gen_pool_chunk:end_addr] Signed-off-by:
Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jianguo Wu authored
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Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
I think we can remove "BUG_ON(start_pfn >= end_pfn)" in __offline_pages(), because in memory_block_action() "nr_pages = PAGES_PER_SECTION * sections_per_block" is always greater than 0. memory_block_action() offline_pages() __offline_pages() BUG_ON(start_pfn >= end_pfn) In v2.6.32, If info->length==0, this way may hit this BUG_ON(). acpi_memory_disable_device() remove_memory(info->start_addr, info->length) offline_pages() A later Fujitsu patch renamed this function and the BUG_ON() is unnecessary. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Our intention in here is to find last_bit within the region to flush. There is well-defined function, find_last_bit() for this purpose and its performance may be slightly better than current implementation. So change it. Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reviewed-by:
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
vbq in vmap_block isn't used. So remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Disabling interrupts repeatedly can be avoided in the inner loop if we use a this_cpu operation. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Both functions that update global counters use the same mechanism. Create a function that contains the common code. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
The main idea behind this patchset is to reduce the vmstat update overhead by avoiding interrupt enable/disable and the use of per cpu atomics. This patch (of 3): It is better to have a separate folding function because refresh_cpu_vm_stats() also does other things like expire pages in the page allocator caches. If we have a separate function then refresh_cpu_vm_stats() is only called from the local cpu which allows additional optimizations. The folding function is only called when a cpu is being downed and therefore no other processor will be accessing the counters. Also simplifies synchronization. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UP build] Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
PageSwapCache() is always false when !CONFIG_SWAP, so compiler properly discard related code. Therefore, we don't need #ifdef explicitly. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
pgtable related functions are mostly in pgtable-generic.c. So move remaining functions from memory.c to pgtable-generic.c. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
We rarely allocate a page with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS and it is used in slow path. For helping compiler optimization, add unlikely macro to ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS checking. This patch doesn't have any effect now, because gcc already optimize this properly. But we cannot assume that gcc always does right and nobody re-evaluate if gcc do proper optimization with their change, for example, it is not optimized properly on v3.10. So adding compiler hint here is reasonable. Signed-off-by:
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Jianguo Wu authored
If node == NUMA_NO_NODE, pol is NULL, we should return NULL instead of do "if (!pol->mode)" check. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reorganise code] Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
If a vma with VM_NORESERVE allocate a new page for page cache, we should check whether this area is reserved or not. If this address is already reserved by other process(in case of chg == 0), we should decrement reserve count, because this allocated page will go into page cache and currently, there is no way to know that this page comes from reserved pool or not when releasing inode. This may introduce over-counting problem to reserved count. With following example code, you can easily reproduce this situation. Assume 2MB, nr_hugepages = 100 size = 20 * MB; flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } flag = MAP_SHARED | MAP_NORESERVE; q = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (q == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } q[0] = 'c'; After finish the program, run 'cat /proc/meminfo'. You can see below result. HugePages_Free: 100 HugePages_Rsvd: 1 To fix this, we should check our mapping type and tracked region. If our mapping is VM_NORESERVE, VM_MAYSHARE and chg is 0, this imply that current allocated page will go into page cache which is already reserved region when mapping is created. In this case, we should decrease reserve count. As implementing above, this patch solve the problem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spelling in comment] Signed-off-by:Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Now, Checking condition of decrement_hugepage_resv_vma() and vma_has_reserves() is same, so we can clean-up this function with vma_has_reserves(). Additionally, decrement_hugepage_resv_vma() has only one call site, so we can remove function and embed it into dequeue_huge_page_vma() directly. This patch implement it. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
If we map the region with MAP_NORESERVE and MAP_SHARED, we can skip to check reserve counting and eventually we cannot be ensured to allocate a huge page in fault time. With following example code, you can easily find this situation. Assume 2MB, nr_hugepages = 100 fd = hugetlbfs_unlinked_fd(); if (fd < 0) return 1; size = 200 * MB; flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } size = 2 * MB; flag = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_NORESERVE; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, -1, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } p[0] = '0'; sleep(10); During executing sleep(10), run 'cat /proc/meminfo' on another process. HugePages_Free: 99 HugePages_Rsvd: 100 Number of free should be higher or equal than number of reserve, but this aren't. This represent that non reserved shared mapping steal a reserved page. Non reserved shared mapping should not eat into reserve space. If we consider VM_NORESERVE in vma_has_reserve() and return 0 which mean that we don't have reserved pages, then we check that we have enough free pages in dequeue_huge_page_vma(). This prevent to steal a reserved page. With this change, above test generate a SIGBUG which is correct, because all free pages are reserved and non reserved shared mapping can't get a free page. Signed-off-by: -
Joonsoo Kim authored
Currently, we use a page with mapped count 1 in page cache for cow optimization. If we find this condition, we don't allocate a new page and copy contents. Instead, we map this page directly. This may introduce a problem that writting to private mapping overwrite hugetlb file directly. You can find this situation with following code. size = 20 * MB; flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } p[0] = 's'; fprintf(stdout, "BEFORE STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]); munmap(p, size); flag = MAP_PRIVATE; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } p[0] = 'c'; munmap(p, size); flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } fprintf(stdout, "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]); munmap(p, size); We can see that "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: c", not "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: s". If we turn off this optimization to a page in page cache, the problem is disappeared. So, I change the trigger condition of optimization. If this page is not AnonPage, we don't do optimization. This makes this optimization turning off for a page cache. Signed-off-by:Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
If list is empty, list_for_each_entry_safe() doesn't do anything. So, this check is redundant. Remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Current node iteration code have a minor problem which do one more node rotation if we can't succeed to allocate. For example, if we start to allocate at node 0, we stop to iterate at node 0. Then we start to allocate at node 1 for next allocation. I introduce new macros "for_each_node_mask_to_[alloc|free]" and fix and clean-up node iteration code to alloc or free. This makes code more understandable. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Unify successful allocation paths to make the code more readable. There are no functional changes. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
The name of the mutex written in comment is wrong. Fix it. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
In this time we are holding a hugetlb_lock, so hstate values can't be changed. If we don't have any usable free huge page in this time, we don't need to proceed with the processing. So move this code up. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
This reverts commit 75f7ad8e. It was the result of a problem observed with a 3.2 kernel and merged in 3.9, while the issue had been resolved upstream in 3.3 (commit ab8fabd4: "mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory"). The "reserved pages" are a superset of min_free_kbytes, thus this change is redundant and confusing. Revert it. Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Each zone that holds userspace pages of one workload must be aged at a speed proportional to the zone size. Otherwise, the time an individual page gets to stay in memory depends on the zone it happened to be allocated in. Asymmetry in the zone aging creates rather unpredictable aging behavior and results in the wrong pages being reclaimed, activated etc. But exactly this happens right now because of the way the page allocator and kswapd interact. The page allocator uses per-node lists of all zones in the system, ordered by preference, when allocating a new page. When the first iteration does not yield any results, kswapd is woken up and the allocator retries. Due to the way kswapd reclaims zones below the high watermark while a zone can be allocated from when it is above the low watermark, the allocator may keep kswapd running while kswapd reclaim ensures that the page allocator can keep allocating from the first zone in the zonelist for extended periods of time. Meanwhile the other zones rarely see new allocations and thus get aged much slower in comparison. The result is that the occasional page placed in lower zones gets relatively more time in memory, even gets promoted to the active list after its peers have long been evicted. Meanwhile, the bulk of the working set may be thrashing on the preferred zone even though there may be significant amounts of memory available in the lower zones. Even the most basic test -- repeatedly reading a file slightly bigger than memory -- shows how broken the zone aging is. In this scenario, no single page should be able stay in memory long enough to get referenced twice and activated, but activation happens in spades: $ grep active_file /proc/zoneinfo nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 8 nr_inactive_file 1582 nr_active_file 11994 $ cat data data data data >/dev/null $ grep active_file /proc/zoneinfo nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 70 nr_inactive_file 258753 nr_active_file 443214 nr_inactive_file 149793 nr_active_file 12021 Fix this with a very simple round robin allocator. Each zone is allowed a batch of allocations that is proportional to the zone's size, after which it is treated as full. The batch counters are reset when all zones have been tried and the allocator enters the slowpath and kicks off kswapd reclaim. Allocation and reclaim is now fairly spread out to all available/allowable zones: $ grep active_file /proc/zoneinfo nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_inactive_file 174 nr_active_file 4865 nr_inactive_file 53 nr_active_file 860 $ cat data data data data >/dev/null $ grep active_file /proc/zoneinfo nr_inactive_file 0 nr_active_file 0 nr_inactive_file 666622 nr_active_file 4988 nr_inactive_file 190969 nr_active_file 937 When zone_reclaim_mode is enabled, allocations will now spread out to all zones on the local node, not just the first preferred zone (which on a 4G node might be a tiny Normal zone). Signed-off-by:Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Bolle <paul.bollee@gmail.com> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Tested-by:
Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Allocations that do not have to respect the watermarks are rare high-priority events. Reorder the code such that per-zone dirty limits and future checks important only to regular page allocations are ignored in these extraordinary situations. Signed-off-by:
Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The way the page allocator interacts with kswapd creates aging imbalances, where the amount of time a userspace page gets in memory under reclaim pressure is dependent on which zone, which node the allocator took the page frame from. #1 fixes missed kswapd wakeups on NUMA systems, which lead to some nodes falling behind for a full reclaim cycle relative to the other nodes in the system #3 fixes an interaction where kswapd and a continuous stream of page allocations keep the preferred zone of a task between the high and low watermark (allocations succeed + kswapd does not go to sleep) indefinitely, completely underutilizing the lower zones and thrashing on the preferred zone These patches are the aging fairness part of the thrash-detection based file LRU balancing. Andrea recommended to submit them separately as they are bugfixes in their own right. The following test ran a foreground workload (memcachetest) with background IO of various sizes on a 4 node 8G system (similar results were observed with single-node 4G systems): parallelio BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC Ops memcachetest-0M 5170.00 ( 0.00%) 5283.00 ( 2.19%) Ops memcachetest-791M 4740.00 ( 0.00%) 5293.00 ( 11.67%) Ops memcachetest-2639M 2551.00 ( 0.00%) 4950.00 ( 94.04%) Ops memcachetest-4487M 2606.00 ( 0.00%) 3922.00 ( 50.50%) Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops io-duration-791M 55.00 ( 0.00%) 18.00 ( 67.27%) Ops io-duration-2639M 235.00 ( 0.00%) 103.00 ( 56.17%) Ops io-duration-4487M 278.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 37.77%) Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-791M 245184.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-2639M 468069.00 ( 0.00%) 108778.00 ( 76.76%) Ops swaptotal-4487M 452529.00 ( 0.00%) 76623.00 ( 83.07%) Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-791M 108297.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-2639M 169537.00 ( 0.00%) 50031.00 ( 70.49%) Ops swapin-4487M 167435.00 ( 0.00%) 34178.00 ( 79.59%) Ops minorfaults-0M 1518666.00 ( 0.00%) 1503993.00 ( 0.97%) Ops minorfaults-791M 1676963.00 ( 0.00%) 1520115.00 ( 9.35%) Ops minorfaults-2639M 1606035.00 ( 0.00%) 1799717.00 (-12.06%) Ops minorfaults-4487M 1612118.00 ( 0.00%) 1583825.00 ( 1.76%) Ops majorfaults-0M 6.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops majorfaults-791M 13836.00 ( 0.00%) 10.00 ( 99.93%) Ops majorfaults-2639M 22307.00 ( 0.00%) 6490.00 ( 70.91%) Ops majorfaults-4487M 21631.00 ( 0.00%) 4380.00 ( 79.75%) BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC User 287.78 460.97 System 2151.67 3142.51 Elapsed 9737.00 8879.34 BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC Minor Faults 53721925 57188551 Major Faults 392195 15157 Swap Ins 2994854 112770 Swap Outs 4907092 134982 Direct pages scanned 0 41824 Kswapd pages scanned 32975063 8128269 Kswapd pages reclaimed 6323069 7093495 Direct pages reclaimed 0 41824 Kswapd efficiency 19% 87% Kswapd velocity 3386.573 915.414 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 0.000 4.710 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Zone normal velocity 2011.338 550.661 Zone dma32 velocity 1365.623 369.221 Zone dma velocity 9.612 0.242 Page writes by reclaim 18732404.000 614807.000 Page writes file 13825312 479825 Page writes anon 4907092 134982 Page reclaim immediate 85490 5647 Sector Reads 12080532 483244 Sector Writes 88740508 65438876 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 82560 12160 Direct inode steals 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 24401 40013 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 THP fault alloc 6 8 THP collapse alloc 5481 5812 THP splits 75 22 THP fault fallback 0 0 THP collapse fail 0 0 Compaction stalls 0 54 Compaction success 0 45 Compaction failures 0 9 Page migrate success 881492 82278 Page migrate failure 0 0 Compaction pages isolated 0 60334 Compaction migrate scanned 0 53505 Compaction free scanned 0 1537605 Compaction cost 914 86 NUMA PTE updates 46738231 41988419 NUMA hint faults 31175564 24213387 NUMA hint local faults 10427393 6411593 NUMA pages migrated 881492 55344 AutoNUMA cost 156221 121361 The overall runtime was reduced, throughput for both the foreground workload as well as the background IO improved, major faults, swapping and reclaim activity shrunk significantly, reclaim efficiency more than quadrupled. This patch: When the page allocator fails to get a page from all zones in its given zonelist, it wakes up the per-node kswapds for all zones that are at their low watermark. However, with a system under load the free pages in a zone can fluctuate enough that the allocation fails but the kswapd wakeup is also skipped while the zone is still really close to the low watermark. When one node misses a wakeup like this, it won't be aged before all the other node's zones are down to their low watermarks again. And skipping a full aging cycle is an obvious fairness problem. Kswapd runs until the high watermarks are restored, so it should also be woken when the high watermarks are not met. This ages nodes more equally and creates a safety margin for the page counter fluctuation. By using zone_balanced(), it will now check, in addition to the watermark, if compaction requires more order-0 pages to create a higher order page. Signed-off-by: -
Libin authored
In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may return NULL. So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference. collapse_huge_page khugepaged_alloc_page up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) vma = find_vma(mm, address) Signed-off-by:
Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by:
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Yinghai Lu authored
We should not check loop+1 with loop end in loop body. Just duplicate two lines code to avoid it. That will help a bit when we have huge amount of pages on system with 16TiB memory. Signed-off-by:
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
In the current code, the value of fallback_migratetype that is printed using the mm_page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint, is the value of the migratetype *after* it has been set to the preferred migratetype (if the ownership was changed). Obviously that wouldn't have been the original intent. (We already have a separate 'change_ownership' field to tell whether the ownership of the pageblock was changed from the fallback_migratetype to the preferred type.) The intent of the fallback_migratetype field is to show the migratetype from which we borrowed pages in order to satisfy the allocation request. So fix the code to print that value correctly. Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
The free-page stealing code in __rmqueue_fallback() is somewhat hard to follow, and has an incredible amount of subtlety hidden inside! First off, there is a minor bug in the reporting of change-of-ownership of pageblocks. Under some conditions, we try to move upto 'pageblock_nr_pages' no. of pages to the preferred allocation list. But we change the ownership of that pageblock to the preferred type only if we manage to successfully move atleast half of that pageblock (or if page_group_by_mobility_disabled is set). However, the current code ignores the latter part and sets the 'migratetype' variable to the preferred type, irrespective of whether we actually changed the pageblock migratetype of that block or not. So, the page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint can end up printing incorrect info (i.e., 'change_ownership' might be shown as 1 when it must have been 0). So fixing this involves moving the update of the 'migratetype' variable to the right place. But looking closer, we observe that the 'migratetype' variable is used subsequently for checks such as "is_migrate_cma()". Obviously the intent there is to check if the *fallback* type is MIGRATE_CMA, but since we already set the 'migratetype' variable to start_migratetype, we end up checking if the *preferred* type is MIGRATE_CMA!! To make things more interesting, this actually doesn't cause a bug in practice, because we never change *anything* if the fallback type is CMA. So, restructure the code in such a way that it is trivial to understand what is going on, and also fix the above mentioned bug. And while at it, also add a comment explaining the subtlety behind the migratetype used in the call to expand(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded `inline', small coding-style fix] Signed-off-by:
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Pintu Kumar authored
Fix all errors reported by checkpatch and some small spelling mistakes. Signed-off-by:
Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
swap cluster allocation is to get better request merge to improve performance. But the cluster is shared globally, if multiple tasks are doing swap, this will cause interleave disk access. While multiple tasks swap is quite common, for example, each numa node has a kswapd thread doing swap and multiple threads/processes doing direct page reclaim. ioscheduler can't help too much here, because tasks don't send swapout IO down to block layer in the meantime. Block layer does merge some IOs, but a lot not, depending on how many tasks are doing swapout concurrently. In practice, I've seen a lot of small size IO in swapout workloads. We makes the cluster allocation per-cpu here. The interleave disk access issue goes away. All tasks swapout to their own cluster, so swapout will become sequential, which can be easily merged to big size IO. If one CPU can't get its per-cpu cluster (for example, there is no free cluster anymore in the swap), it will fallback to scan swap_map. The CPU can still continue swap. We don't need recycle free swap entries of other CPUs. In my test (swap to a 2-disk raid0 partition), this improves around 10% swapout throughput, and request size is increased significantly. How does this impact swap readahead is uncertain though. On one side, page reclaim always isolates and swaps several adjancent pages, this will make page reclaim write the pages sequentially and benefit readahead. On the other side, several CPU write pages interleave means the pages don't live _sequentially_ but relatively _near_. In the per-cpu allocation case, if adjancent pages are written by different cpus, they will live relatively _far_. So how this impacts swap readahead depends on how many pages page reclaim isolates and swaps one time. If the number is big, this patch will benefit swap readahead. Of course, this is about sequential access pattern. The patch has no impact for random access pattern, because the new cluster allocation algorithm is just for SSD. Alternative solution is organizing swap layout to be per-mm instead of this per-cpu approach. In the per-mm layout, we allocate a disk range for each mm, so pages of one mm live in swap disk adjacently. per-mm layout has potential issues of lock contention if multiple reclaimers are swap pages from one mm. For a sequential workload, per-mm layout is better to implement swap readahead, because pages from the mm are adjacent in disk. But per-cpu layout isn't very bad in this workload, as page reclaim always isolates and swaps several pages one time, such pages will still live in disk sequentially and readahead can utilize this. For a random workload, per-mm layout isn't beneficial of request merge, because it's quite possible pages from different mm are swapout in the meantime and IO can't be merged in per-mm layout. while with per-cpu layout we can merge requests from any mm. Considering random workload is more popular in workloads with swap (and per-cpu approach isn't too bad for sequential workload too), I'm choosing per-cpu layout. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
The previous patch can expose races, according to Hugh: swapoff was sometimes failing with "Cannot allocate memory", coming from try_to_unuse()'s -ENOMEM: it needs to allow for swap_duplicate() failing on a free entry temporarily SWAP_MAP_BAD while being discarded. We should use ACCESS_ONCE() there, and whenever accessing swap_map locklessly; but rather than peppering it throughout try_to_unuse(), just declare *swap_map with volatile. try_to_unuse() is accustomed to *swap_map going down racily, but not necessarily to it jumping up from 0 to SWAP_MAP_BAD: we'll be safer to prevent that transition once SWP_WRITEOK is switched off, when it's a waste of time to issue discards anyway (swapon can do a whole discard). Another issue is: In swapin_readahead(), read_swap_cache_async() can read a bad swap entry, because we don't check if readahead swap entry is bad. This doesn't break anything but such swapin page is wasteful and can only be freed at page reclaim. We should avoid read such swap entry. And in discard, we mark swap entry SWAP_MAP_BAD and then switch it to normal when discard is finished. If readahead reads such swap entry, we have the same issue, so we much check if swap entry is bad too. Thanks Hugh to inspire swapin_readahead could use bad swap entry. [include Hugh's patch 'swap: fix swapoff ENOMEMs from discard'] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
swap can do cluster discard for SSD, which is good, but there are some problems here: 1. swap do the discard just before page reclaim gets a swap entry and writes the disk sectors. This is useless for high end SSD, because an overwrite to a sector implies a discard to original sector too. A discard + overwrite == overwrite. 2. the purpose of doing discard is to improve SSD firmware garbage collection. Idealy we should send discard as early as possible, so firmware can do something smart. Sending discard just after swap entry is freed is considered early compared to sending discard before write. Of course, if workload is already bound to gc speed, sending discard earlier or later doesn't make 3. block discard is a sync API, which will delay scan_swap_map() significantly. 4. Write and discard command can be executed parallel in PCIe SSD. Making swap discard async can make execution more efficiently. This patch makes swap discard async and moves discard to where swap entry is freed. Discard and write have no dependence now, so above issues can be avoided. Idealy we should do discard for any freed sectors, but some SSD discard is very slow. This patch still does discard for a whole cluster. My test does a several round of 'mmap, write, unmap', which will trigger a lot of swap discard. In a fusionio card, with this patch, the test runtime is reduced to 18% of the time without it, so around 5.5x faster. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
I'm using a fast SSD to do swap. scan_swap_map() sometimes uses up to 20~30% CPU time (when cluster is hard to find, the CPU time can be up to 80%), which becomes a bottleneck. scan_swap_map() scans a byte array to search a 256 page cluster, which is very slow. Here I introduced a simple algorithm to search cluster. Since we only care about 256 pages cluster, we can just use a counter to track if a cluster is free. Every 256 pages use one int to store the counter. If the counter of a cluster is 0, the cluster is free. All free clusters will be added to a list, so searching cluster is very efficient. With this, scap_swap_map() overhead disappears. This might help low end SD card swap too. Because if the cluster is aligned, SD firmware can do flash erase more efficiently. We only enable the algorithm for SSD. Hard disk swap isn't fast enough and has downside with the algorithm which might introduce regression (see below). The patch slightly changes which cluster is choosen. It always adds free cluster to list tail. This can help wear leveling for low end SSD too. And if no cluster found, the scan_swap_map() will do search from the end of last cluster. So if no cluster found, the scan_swap_map() will do search from the end of last free cluster, which is random. For SSD, this isn't a problem at all. Another downside is the cluster must be aligned to 256 pages, which will reduce the chance to find a cluster. I would expect this isn't a big problem for SSD because of the non-seek penality. (And this is the reason I only enable the algorithm for SSD). Signed-off-by:
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Chen Gang authored
set_pageblock_order() may be called when memory hotplug, so need use '__paginginit' instead of '__init'. The related warning: The function __meminit .free_area_init_node() references a function __init .set_pageblock_order(). If .set_pageblock_order is only used by .free_area_init_node then annotate .set_pageblock_order with a matching annotation. Signed-off-by:
Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by:
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