mm, compaction: finish pageblock scanning on contention
Async migration aborts on spinlock contention but contention can be high when there are multiple compaction attempts and kswapd is active. The consequence is that the migration scanners move forward uselessly while still contending on locks for longer while leaving suitable migration sources behind. This patch will acquire the lock but track when contention occurs. When it does, the current pageblock will finish as compaction may succeed for that block and then abort. This will have a variable impact on latency as in some cases useless scanning is avoided (reduces latency) but a lock will be contended (increase latency) or a single contended pageblock is scanned that would otherwise have been skipped (increase latency). 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3002.07 ( 0.00%) 3153.17 ( -5.03%) Amean fault-both-5 4684.47 ( 0.00%) 4280.52 ( 8.62%) Amean fault-both-7 6815.54 ( 0.00%) 5811.50 * 14.73%* Amean fault-both-12 10864.02 ( 0.00%) 9276.85 ( 14.61%) Amean fault-both-18 12247.52 ( 0.00%) 11032.67 ( 9.92%) Amean fault-both-24 15683.99 ( 0.00%) 14285.70 ( 8.92%) Amean fault-both-30 18620.02 ( 0.00%) 16293.76 * 12.49%* Amean fault-both-32 19250.28 ( 0.00%) 16721.02 * 13.14%* 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 norescan-v3r16 finishcontend-v3r16 Percentage huge-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Percentage huge-3 95.00 ( 0.00%) 96.82 ( 1.92%) Percentage huge-5 94.22 ( 0.00%) 95.40 ( 1.26%) Percentage huge-7 92.35 ( 0.00%) 95.92 ( 3.86%) Percentage huge-12 91.90 ( 0.00%) 96.73 ( 5.25%) Percentage huge-18 89.58 ( 0.00%) 96.77 ( 8.03%) Percentage huge-24 90.03 ( 0.00%) 96.05 ( 6.69%) Percentage huge-30 89.14 ( 0.00%) 96.81 ( 8.60%) Percentage huge-32 90.58 ( 0.00%) 97.41 ( 7.54%) There is a variable impact that is mostly good on latency while allocation success rates are slightly higher. System CPU usage is reduced by about 10% but scan rate impact is mixed Compaction migrate scanned 27997659.00 20148867 Compaction free scanned 120782791.00 118324914 Migration scan rates are reduced 28% which is expected as a pageblock is used by the async scanner instead of skipped. The impact on the free scanner is known to be variable. Overall the primary justification for this patch is that completing scanning of a pageblock is very important for later patches. [yuehaibing@huawei.com: fix unused variable warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-14-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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