mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making progress

Tracing of the stutterp workload showed the following delays

      1 usect_delayed=124000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=128000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=176000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=536000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=544000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=556000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=624000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=716000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      1 usect_delayed=772000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
      2 usect_delayed=512000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     16 usect_delayed=120000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
     53 usect_delayed=116000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
    116 usect_delayed=112000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
   5907 usect_delayed=108000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS
  71741 usect_delayed=104000 reason=VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS

All the throttling hit the full timeout and then there was wakeup delays
meaning that the wakeups are premature as no other reclaimer such as
kswapd has made progress.  This patch increases the maximum timeout.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-8-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>

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 599e5616b12392a99b3b0c8e1ea5be7732dd377c..9c125f793bf5fa394e20a3192402fc6bd614de0f 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason)
 
                break;
        case VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS:
-               timeout = HZ/10;
+               timeout = HZ/2;
                break;
        case VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED:
                timeout = HZ/50;