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authorGavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-02-25 01:59:33 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-25 04:46:56 +0300
commite02dc017c3032dcdce1b993af0db135462e1b4b7 (patch)
tree37159f9f88240aca0f4cd896e27cdbc1bebab452 /mm
parentd6d8c8a48291b929b2e039f220f0b62958cccfea (diff)
downloadlinux-e02dc017c3032dcdce1b993af0db135462e1b4b7.tar.xz
mm/page_alloc: fix nodes for reclaim in fast path
When @node_reclaim_node isn't 0, the page allocator tries to reclaim pages if the amount of free memory in the zones are below the low watermark. On Power platform, none of NUMA nodes are scanned for page reclaim because no nodes match the condition in zone_allows_reclaim(). On Power platform, RECLAIM_DISTANCE is set to 10 which is the distance of Node-A to Node-A. So the preferred node even won't be scanned for page reclaim. __alloc_pages_nodemask() get_page_from_freelist() zone_allows_reclaim() Anton proposed the test code as below: # cat alloc.c : int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { void *p; unsigned long size; unsigned long start, end; start = time(NULL); size = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0); printf("To allocate %ldGB memory\n", size); size <<= 30; p = malloc(size); assert(p); memset(p, 0, size); end = time(NULL); printf("Used time: %ld seconds\n", end - start); sleep(3600); return 0; } The system I use for testing has two NUMA nodes. Both have 128GB memory. In below scnario, the page caches on node#0 should be reclaimed when it encounters pressure to accommodate request of allocation. # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode; \ sync; \ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; \ # taskset -c 0 cat file.32G > /dev/null; \ grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33619712 kB # taskset -c 0 ./alloc 128 # grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33619840 kB # grep MemFree /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 MemFree: 186816 kB With the patch applied, the pagecache on node-0 is reclaimed when its free memory is running out. It's the expected behaviour. # echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode; \ sync; \ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # taskset -c 0 cat file.32G > /dev/null; \ grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 33605568 kB # taskset -c 0 ./alloc 128 # grep FilePages /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 FilePages: 1379520 kB # grep MemFree /sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo Node 0 MemFree: 317120 kB Fixes: 5f7a75acdb24 ("mm: page_alloc: do not cache reclaim distances") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486532455-29613-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.16+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f8ef2c90edbe..4c2011f6b08f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2944,7 +2944,7 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
{
- return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <
+ return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <=
RECLAIM_DISTANCE;
}
#else /* CONFIG_NUMA */