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mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 5 Nov 2021 20:42:29 +0000 (13:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 6 Nov 2021 20:30:40 +0000 (13:30 -0700)
commit81c6ddde6c776513ef1139909e29dd4357827572
treee904d09e6036741d123455499ce8fc5bc85d90ab
parent0539699cca6c40fd2eb08f4cb25f915d37e28474
mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated

Page reclaim throttles on congestion if too many parallel reclaim
instances have isolated too many pages.  This makes no sense, excessive
parallelisation has nothing to do with writeback or congestion.

This patch creates an additional workqueue to sleep on when too many
pages are isolated.  The throttled tasks are woken when the number of
isolated pages is reduced or a timeout occurs.  There may be some false
positive wakeups for GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers but the tasks will
throttle again if necessary.

[shy828301@gmail.com: Wake up from compaction context]
[vbabka@suse.cz: Account number of throttled tasks only for writeback]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
include/trace/events/vmscan.h
mm/compaction.c
mm/internal.h
mm/vmscan.c