mm/compaction: avoid rescanning pageblocks in isolate_freepages (e9ade569) · Commits · 戴 / test

The compaction free scanner in isolate_freepages() currently remembers PFN of the highest pageblock where it successfully isolates, to be used as the starting pageblock for the next invocation. The rationale behind this is that page migration might return free pages to the allocator when migration fails and we don't want to skip them if the compaction continues. Since migration now returns free pages back to compaction code where they can be reused, this is no longer a concern. This patch changes isolate_freepages() so that the PFN for restarting is updated with each pageblock where isolation is attempted. Using stress-highalloc from mmtests, this resulted in 10% reduction of the pages scanned by the free scanner. Note that the somewhat similar functionality that records highest successful pageblock in zone->compact_cached_free_pfn, remains unchanged. This cache is used when the whole compaction is restarted, not for multiple invocations of the free scanner during single compaction. Signed-off-by:

Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Acked-by:

Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Reviewed-by:

Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:

David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/compaction.c

+7 −15

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -688,7 +688,6 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
		unsigned long block_start_pfn; /* start of current pageblock */
		unsigned long block_end_pfn; /* end of current pageblock */
		unsigned long low_pfn; /* lowest pfn scanner is able to scan */
		unsigned long next_free_pfn; /* start pfn for scaning at next round */
		int nr_freepages = cc->nr_freepages;
		struct list_head *freelist = &cc->freepages;

		@@ -708,12 +707,6 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
		zone_end_pfn(zone));
		low_pfn = ALIGN(cc->migrate_pfn + 1, pageblock_nr_pages);

		/*
		* If no pages are isolated, the block_start_pfn < low_pfn check
		* will kick in.
		*/
		next_free_pfn = 0;

		/*
		* Isolate free pages until enough are available to migrate the
		* pages on cc->migratepages. We stop searching if the migrate
		@@ -754,19 +747,19 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
		continue;

		/* Found a block suitable for isolating free pages from */
		cc->free_pfn = block_start_pfn;
		isolated = isolate_freepages_block(cc, block_start_pfn,
		block_end_pfn, freelist, false);
		nr_freepages += isolated;

		/*
		* Record the highest PFN we isolated pages from. When next
		* looking for free pages, the search will restart here as
		* page migration may have returned some pages to the allocator
		* Set a flag that we successfully isolated in this pageblock.
		* In the next loop iteration, zone->compact_cached_free_pfn
		* will not be updated and thus it will effectively contain the
		* highest pageblock we isolated pages from.
		*/
		if (isolated && next_free_pfn == 0) {
		if (isolated)
		cc->finished_update_free = true;
		next_free_pfn = block_start_pfn;
		}
		}

		/* split_free_page does not map the pages */
		@@ -777,9 +770,8 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone,
		* so that compact_finished() may detect this
		*/
		if (block_start_pfn < low_pfn)
		next_free_pfn = cc->migrate_pfn;
		cc->free_pfn = cc->migrate_pfn;

		cc->free_pfn = next_free_pfn;
		cc->nr_freepages = nr_freepages;
		}

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