From 71a07f4cf29615d30369760c022972d4875758b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:07:14 -0800 Subject: mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes commit 938929f14cb595f43cd1a4e63e22d36cab1e4a1f upstream. Stable note: Fixes https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726210 . Large machines with 1TB or more of RAM take a long time to boot without this patch and may spew out soft lockup warnings. When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE. Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved. The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata than is necessary. This patch significantly reduces the amount of work done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/page_alloc.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 947a7e96f91d..70c049dc4ee1 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3418,25 +3418,33 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone) if (page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone)) continue; - /* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */ - block_end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, end_pfn); - if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn, block_end_pfn)) - continue; - block_migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page); - /* If this block is reserved, account for it */ - if (reserve > 0 && block_migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE) { - reserve--; - continue; - } + /* Only test what is necessary when the reserves are not met */ + if (reserve > 0) { + /* + * Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip + * them. + */ + block_end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, end_pfn); + if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn, block_end_pfn)) + continue; - /* Suitable for reserving if this block is movable */ - if (reserve > 0 && block_migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) { - set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); - move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); - reserve--; - continue; + /* If this block is reserved, account for it */ + if (block_migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE) { + reserve--; + continue; + } + + /* Suitable for reserving if this block is movable */ + if (block_migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) { + set_pageblock_migratetype(page, + MIGRATE_RESERVE); + move_freepages_block(zone, page, + MIGRATE_RESERVE); + reserve--; + continue; + } } /* -- cgit v1.2.3 From c17a36656685a2af6ea9e99fa243a7103b643d12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:41 -0800 Subject: mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred commit 66199712e9eef5aede09dbcd9dfff87798a66917 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled. If compaction is deferred, direct reclaim is used to try to free enough pages for the allocation to succeed. For small high-orders, this has a reasonable chance of success. However, if the caller has specified __GFP_NO_KSWAPD to limit the disruption to the system, it makes more sense to fail the allocation rather than stall the caller in direct reclaim. This patch skips direct reclaim if compaction is deferred and the caller specifies __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. Async compaction only considers a subset of pages so it is possible for compaction to be deferred prematurely and not enter direct reclaim even in cases where it should. To compensate for this, this patch also defers compaction only if sync compaction failed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/page_alloc.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 70c049dc4ee1..0d490ba1af93 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1897,14 +1897,20 @@ static struct page * __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx, nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, struct zone *preferred_zone, - int migratetype, unsigned long *did_some_progress, - bool sync_migration) + int migratetype, bool sync_migration, + bool *deferred_compaction, + unsigned long *did_some_progress) { struct page *page; - if (!order || compaction_deferred(preferred_zone)) + if (!order) return NULL; + if (compaction_deferred(preferred_zone)) { + *deferred_compaction = true; + return NULL; + } + current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; *did_some_progress = try_to_compact_pages(zonelist, order, gfp_mask, nodemask, sync_migration); @@ -1932,7 +1938,13 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, * but not enough to satisfy watermarks. */ count_vm_event(COMPACTFAIL); - defer_compaction(preferred_zone); + + /* + * As async compaction considers a subset of pageblocks, only + * defer if the failure was a sync compaction failure. + */ + if (sync_migration) + defer_compaction(preferred_zone); cond_resched(); } @@ -1944,8 +1956,9 @@ static inline struct page * __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx, nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, struct zone *preferred_zone, - int migratetype, unsigned long *did_some_progress, - bool sync_migration) + int migratetype, bool sync_migration, + bool *deferred_compaction, + unsigned long *did_some_progress) { return NULL; } @@ -2095,6 +2108,7 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, unsigned long pages_reclaimed = 0; unsigned long did_some_progress; bool sync_migration = false; + bool deferred_compaction = false; /* * In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to @@ -2175,12 +2189,22 @@ rebalance: zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, alloc_flags, preferred_zone, - migratetype, &did_some_progress, - sync_migration); + migratetype, sync_migration, + &deferred_compaction, + &did_some_progress); if (page) goto got_pg; sync_migration = true; + /* + * If compaction is deferred for high-order allocations, it is because + * sync compaction recently failed. In this is the case and the caller + * has requested the system not be heavily disrupted, fail the + * allocation now instead of entering direct reclaim + */ + if (deferred_compaction && (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) + goto nopage; + /* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */ page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, @@ -2243,8 +2267,9 @@ rebalance: zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, alloc_flags, preferred_zone, - migratetype, &did_some_progress, - sync_migration); + migratetype, sync_migration, + &deferred_compaction, + &did_some_progress); if (page) goto got_pg; } -- cgit v1.2.3 From 627c5c60b4ac673e9f4be758858073071684dce9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:11 -0700 Subject: cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 commit cc9a6c8776615f9c194ccf0b63a0aa5628235545 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. [get|put]_mems_allowed() is extremely expensive and severely impacted page allocator performance. This is part of a series of patches that reduce page allocator overhead. Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Miao Xie Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/page_alloc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0d490ba1af93..9177aa35ae7e 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2293,8 +2293,9 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, { enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask); struct zone *preferred_zone; - struct page *page; + struct page *page = NULL; int migratetype = allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask); + unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie; gfp_mask &= gfp_allowed_mask; @@ -2313,15 +2314,15 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone)) return NULL; - get_mems_allowed(); +retry_cpuset: + cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed(); + /* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */ first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask ? : &cpuset_current_mems_allowed, &preferred_zone); - if (!preferred_zone) { - put_mems_allowed(); - return NULL; - } + if (!preferred_zone) + goto out; /* First allocation attempt */ page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask, order, @@ -2331,9 +2332,19 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone, migratetype); - put_mems_allowed(); trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask, migratetype); + +out: + /* + * When updating a task's mems_allowed, it is possible to race with + * parallel threads in such a way that an allocation can fail while + * the mask is being updated. If a page allocation is about to fail, + * check if the cpuset changed during allocation and if so, retry. + */ + if (unlikely(!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie) && !page)) + goto retry_cpuset; + return page; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask); @@ -2557,13 +2568,15 @@ void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid) bool skip_free_areas_node(unsigned int flags, int nid) { bool ret = false; + unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie; if (!(flags & SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES)) goto out; - get_mems_allowed(); - ret = !node_isset(nid, cpuset_current_mems_allowed); - put_mems_allowed(); + do { + cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed(); + ret = !node_isset(nid, cpuset_current_mems_allowed); + } while (!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie)); out: return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3