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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 21:36:11 +0100
From: mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman)
To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"bugme-daemon@...nel-bugs.osdl.org"
<bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 8464] New: autoreconf: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x84020
On (11/05/07 20:30), Nicolas Mailhot didst pronounce:
> Le vendredi 11 mai 2007 à 19:45 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> > Le vendredi 11 mai 2007 à 18:38 +0100, Mel Gorman a écrit :
>
> > > so I'd like to look at the
> > > alternative option with kswapd as well. Could you put that patch back in again
> > > please and try the following patch instead?
> >
> > I'll try this one now (if it applies)
>
> Well it doesn't seem to apply. Are you sure you have a clean tree?
> (I have vanilla mm2 + revert of
> md-improve-partition-detection-in-md-array.patch for another bug)
>
I'm pretty sure I have. I recreated the tree and reverted the same patch as
you and regenerated the diff below. I sent it to myself and it appeared ok
and another automated system was able to use it.
In case it's a mailer problem, the patch can be downloaded from
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/kswapd-minorder.patch . Here is a rediff
against the tree you describe.
Sorry for the confusion.
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/include/linux/mmzone.h linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/include/linux/mmzone.h
--- linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/include/linux/mmzone.h 2007-05-11 21:16:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/include/linux/mmzone.h 2007-05-11 21:23:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -499,6 +499,8 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
void get_zone_counts(unsigned long *active, unsigned long *inactive,
unsigned long *free);
void build_all_zonelists(void);
+int kswapd_order(unsigned int order);
+void set_kswapd_order(unsigned int order);
void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order);
int zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags);
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/slub.c linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/mm/slub.c
--- linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/slub.c 2007-05-11 21:16:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/mm/slub.c 2007-05-11 21:23:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -2131,6 +2131,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches
static int __init setup_slub_min_order(char *str)
{
get_option (&str, &slub_min_order);
+ set_kswapd_order(slub_min_order);
user_override = 1;
return 1;
}
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/vmscan.c linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.21-mm2-revertmd/mm/vmscan.c 2007-05-11 21:16:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm2-kswapdorder/mm/vmscan.c 2007-05-11 21:23:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1407,6 +1407,32 @@ out:
return nr_reclaimed;
}
+static unsigned int kswapd_min_order __read_mostly;
+
+/**
+ * set_kswapd_order - Set the minimum order that kswapd reclaims at
+ * @order: The new minimum order
+ *
+ * kswapd normally reclaims at order 0 unless there is a higher-order
+ * allocation under way. However, in some cases, it is known that there
+ * are a minimum order size of general interest such as the SLUB allocator
+ * requiring regular high-order allocations. This allows a minimum order
+ * to be set to that min_free_kbytes is kept at higher orders
+ */
+void set_kswapd_order(unsigned int order)
+{
+ if (order >= MAX_ORDER)
+ return;
+
+ printk(KERN_INFO "kswapd reclaim order set to %d\n", order);
+ kswapd_min_order = order;
+}
+
+int kswapd_order(unsigned int order)
+{
+ return max(kswapd_min_order, order);
+}
+
/*
* The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
* from the init process.
@@ -1450,13 +1476,13 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
*/
tsk->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD;
- order = 0;
+ order = kswapd_order(0);
for ( ; ; ) {
unsigned long new_order;
prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- new_order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
- pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
+ new_order = kswapd_order(pgdat->kswapd_max_order);
+ pgdat->kswapd_max_order = kswapd_order(0);
if (order < new_order) {
/*
* Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
@@ -1467,7 +1493,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
if (!freezing(current))
schedule();
- order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
+ order = kswapd_order(pgdat->kswapd_max_order);
}
finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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