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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