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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2017-05-04 00:53:45 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-04 01:52:09 +0300
commite716f2eb24defb33b82be763a3ed9a618a210cee (patch)
tree623143ddb954f21419b11ad38894b196e6261dbd /mm/memory_hotplug.c
parent631b6e083ec328f7203f466ba839d296aee70c36 (diff)
downloadlinux-e716f2eb24defb33b82be763a3ed9a618a210cee.tar.xz
mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idx
kswapd is woken to reclaim a node based on a failed allocation request from any eligible zone. Once reclaiming in balance_pgdat(), it will continue reclaiming until there is an eligible zone available for the zone it was woken for. kswapd tracks what zone it was recently woken for in pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx. If it has not been woken recently, this zone will be 0. However, the decision on whether to sleep is made on kswapd_classzone_idx which is 0 without a recent wakeup request and that classzone does not account for lowmem reserves. This allows kswapd to sleep when a low small zone such as ZONE_DMA is balanced for a GFP_DMA request even if a stream of allocations cannot use that zone. While kswapd may be woken again shortly in the near future there are two consequences -- the pgdat bits that control congestion are cleared prematurely and direct reclaim is more likely as kswapd slept prematurely. This patch flips kswapd_classzone_idx to default to MAX_NR_ZONES (an invalid index) when there has been no recent wakeups. If there are no wakeups, it'll decide whether to sleep based on the highest possible zone available (MAX_NR_ZONES - 1). It then becomes critical that the "pgdat balanced" decisions during reclaim and when deciding to sleep are the same. If there is a mismatch, kswapd can stay awake continually trying to balance tiny zones. simoop was used to evaluate it again. Two of the preparation patches regressed the workload so they are included as the second set of results. Otherwise this patch looks artifically excellent 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla clear-v2 keepawake-v2 Amean p50-Read 21670074.18 ( 0.00%) 19786774.76 ( 8.69%) 22668332.52 ( -4.61%) Amean p95-Read 25456267.64 ( 0.00%) 24101956.27 ( 5.32%) 26738688.00 ( -5.04%) Amean p99-Read 29369064.73 ( 0.00%) 27691872.71 ( 5.71%) 30991404.52 ( -5.52%) Amean p50-Write 1390.30 ( 0.00%) 1011.91 ( 27.22%) 924.91 ( 33.47%) Amean p95-Write 412901.57 ( 0.00%) 34874.98 ( 91.55%) 1362.62 ( 99.67%) Amean p99-Write 6668722.09 ( 0.00%) 575449.60 ( 91.37%) 16854.04 ( 99.75%) Amean p50-Allocation 78714.31 ( 0.00%) 84246.26 ( -7.03%) 74729.74 ( 5.06%) Amean p95-Allocation 175533.51 ( 0.00%) 400058.43 (-127.91%) 101609.74 ( 42.11%) Amean p99-Allocation 247003.02 ( 0.00%) 10905600.00 (-4315.17%) 125765.57 ( 49.08%) With this patch on top, write and allocation latencies are massively improved. The read latencies are slightly impaired but it's worth noting that this is mostly due to the IO scheduler and not directly related to reclaim. The vmstats are a bit of a mix but the relevant ones are as follows; 4.10.0-rc7 4.10.0-rc7 4.10.0-rc7 mmots-20170209 clear-v1r25keepawake-v1r25 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 608 0 Direct pages scanned 6910672 3132699 6357298 Kswapd pages scanned 57036946 82488665 56986286 Kswapd pages reclaimed 55993488 63474329 55939113 Direct pages reclaimed 6905990 2964843 6352115 Kswapd efficiency 98% 76% 98% Kswapd velocity 12494.375 17597.507 12488.065 Direct efficiency 99% 94% 99% Direct velocity 1513.835 668.306 1393.148 Page writes by reclaim 0.000 4410243.000 0.000 Page writes file 0 4409635 0 Page writes anon 0 608 0 Page reclaim immediate 1036792 14175203 1042571 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 4.11.0-rc1 vanilla clear-v2 keepawake-v2 Swap Ins 0 12 0 Swap Outs 0 838 0 Direct pages scanned 6579706 3237270 6256811 Kswapd pages scanned 61853702 79961486 54837791 Kswapd pages reclaimed 60768764 60755788 53849586 Direct pages reclaimed 6579055 2987453 6256151 Kswapd efficiency 98% 75% 98% Page writes by reclaim 0.000 4389496.000 0.000 Page writes file 0 4388658 0 Page writes anon 0 838 0 Page reclaim immediate 1073573 14473009 982507 Swap-outs are equivalent to baseline. Direct reclaim is reduced but not eliminated. It's worth noting that there are two periods of direct reclaim for this workload. The first is when it switches from preparing the files for the actual test itself. It's a lot of file IO followed by a lot of allocs that reclaims heavily for a brief window. While direct reclaim is lower with clear-v2, it is due to kswapd scanning aggressively and trying to reclaim the world which is not the right thing to do. With the patches applied, there is still direct reclaim but the phase change from "creating work files" to starting multiple threads that allocate a lot of anonymous memory faster than kswapd can reclaim. Scanning/reclaim efficiency is restored by this patch. Page writes from reclaim context are back at 0 which is ideal. Pages immediately reclaimed after IO completes is slightly improved but it is expected this will vary slightly. On UMA, there is almost no change so this is not expected to be a universal win. [mgorman@suse.de: fix ->kswapd_classzone_idx initialization] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170406174538.5msrznj6nt6qpbx5@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170309075657.25121-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory_hotplug.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory_hotplug.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 6fa7208bcd56..b63d7d1239df 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1208,7 +1208,11 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, pgdat);
} else {
- /* Reset the nr_zones, order and classzone_idx before reuse */
+ /*
+ * Reset the nr_zones, order and classzone_idx before reuse.
+ * Note that kswapd will init kswapd_classzone_idx properly
+ * when it starts in the near future.
+ */
pgdat->nr_zones = 0;
pgdat->kswapd_order = 0;
pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = 0;