From 9f7e3387939b036faacf4e7f32de7bb92a6635d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:00:37 -0700 Subject: mm, compaction: make full priority ignore pageblock suitability Several people have reported premature OOMs for order-2 allocations (stack) due to OOM rework in 4.7. In the scenario (parallel kernel build and dd writing to two drives) many pageblocks get marked as Unmovable and compaction free scanner struggles to isolate free pages. Joonsoo Kim pointed out that the free scanner skips pageblocks that are not movable to prevent filling them and forcing non-movable allocations to fallback to other pageblocks. Such heuristic makes sense to help prevent long-term fragmentation, but premature OOMs are relatively more urgent problem. As a compromise, this patch disables the heuristic only for the ultimate compaction priority. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160906135258.18335-5-vbabka@suse.cz Reported-by: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Reported-by: Olaf Hering Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/compaction.c') diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 29f6c49dc9c2..86d4d0bbfc7c 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -997,8 +997,12 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn, #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION /* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */ -static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page) +static bool suitable_migration_target(struct compact_control *cc, + struct page *page) { + if (cc->ignore_block_suitable) + return true; + /* If the page is a large free page, then disallow migration */ if (PageBuddy(page)) { /* @@ -1083,7 +1087,7 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc) continue; /* Check the block is suitable for migration */ - if (!suitable_migration_target(page)) + if (!suitable_migration_target(cc, page)) continue; /* If isolation recently failed, do not retry */ @@ -1656,7 +1660,8 @@ static enum compact_result compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, int order, .classzone_idx = classzone_idx, .direct_compaction = true, .whole_zone = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY), - .ignore_skip_hint = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY) + .ignore_skip_hint = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY), + .ignore_block_suitable = (prio == MIN_COMPACT_PRIORITY) }; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.freepages); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages); -- cgit v1.2.3