From 65d759c8f9f57b96c199f3fe5cfb93ac7da095e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charan Teja Reddy Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:59:59 -0700 Subject: mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness. Triggering the compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system usecases which may have few MB's of RAM. Enabling the proactive compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such systems. Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). So, on systems where enabling the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the same from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from userspace. This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user. [1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 003d5cc3751b..5e795202111f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the -background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. +background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately +trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead -- cgit v1.2.3