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mm, compaction: simplify contended compaction handling
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:49:30 +0000 (15:49 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:07:41 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commit58f01eb249455fd1363534da05b49883aee8522f
tree5faec99d3537ddabaaf79e90d3335f0812e69766
parent4ddede7862d781fa578b0547bc6550dfaa23dcec
mm, compaction: simplify contended compaction handling

Async compaction detects contention either due to failing trylock on
zone->lock or lru_lock, or by need_resched().  Since 11a0b5dcdb03 ("mm,
compaction: khugepaged should not give up due to need_resched()") the
code got quite complicated to distinguish these two up to the
__alloc_pages_slowpath() level, so different decisions could be taken
for khugepaged allocations.

After the recent changes, khugepaged allocations don't check for
contended compaction anymore, so we again don't need to distinguish lock
and sched contention, and simplify the current convoluted code a lot.

However, I believe it's also possible to simplify even more and
completely remove the check for contended compaction after the initial
async compaction for costly orders, which was originally aimed at THP
page fault allocations.  There are several reasons why this can be done
now:

- with the new defaults, THP page faults no longer do reclaim/compaction at
  all, unless the system admin has overridden the default, or application has
  indicated via madvise that it can benefit from THP's. In both cases, it
  means that the potential extra latency is expected and worth the benefits.
- even if reclaim/compaction proceeds after this patch where it previously
  wouldn't, the second compaction attempt is still async and will detect the
  contention and back off, if the contention persists
- there are still heuristics like deferred compaction and pageblock skip bits
  in place that prevent excessive THP page fault latencies

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-9-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/compaction.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c