Date:	Fri,  3 Dec 2010 11:45:30 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mm: kswapd: Stop high-order balancing when any suitable zone is balanced

When the allocator enters its slow path, kswapd is woken up to balance the
node. It continues working until all zones within the node are balanced. For
order-0 allocations, this makes perfect sense but for higher orders it can
have unintended side-effects. If the zone sizes are imbalanced, kswapd may
reclaim heavily within a smaller zone discarding an excessive number of
pages. The user-visible behaviour is that kswapd is awake and reclaiming
even though plenty of pages are free from a suitable zone.

This patch alters the "balance" logic for high-order reclaim allowing kswapd
to stop if any suitable zone becomes balanced to reduce the number of pages
it reclaims from other zones. kswapd still tries to ensure that order-0
watermarks for all zones are met before sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |    3 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c        |    8 ++++--
 mm/vmscan.c            |   55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 39c24eb..7177f51 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -645,6 +645,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 	wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait;
 	struct task_struct *kswapd;
 	int kswapd_max_order;
+	enum zone_type classzone_idx;
 } pg_data_t;
 
 #define node_present_pages(nid)	(NODE_DATA(nid)->node_present_pages)
@@ -660,7 +661,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 
 extern struct mutex zonelists_mutex;
 void build_all_zonelists(void *data);
-void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order);
+void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx);
 int zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
 		int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags);
 enum memmap_context {
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e409270..82e3499 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1915,13 +1915,14 @@ __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 
 static inline
 void wake_all_kswapd(unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist,
-						enum zone_type high_zoneidx)
+						enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
+						enum zone_type classzone_idx)
 {
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	struct zone *zone;
 
 	for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx)
-		wakeup_kswapd(zone, order);
+		wakeup_kswapd(zone, order, classzone_idx);
 }
 
 static inline int
@@ -1998,7 +1999,8 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 		goto nopage;
 
 restart:
-	wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx);
+	wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
+						zone_idx(preferred_zone));
 
 	/*
 	 * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d31d7ce..d070d19 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2165,11 +2165,14 @@ static int sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
  * interoperates with the page allocator fallback scheme to ensure that aging
  * of pages is balanced across the zones.
  */
-static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
+static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
+							int classzone_idx)
 {
 	int all_zones_ok;
+	int any_zone_ok;
 	int priority;
 	int i;
+	int end_zone = 0;	/* Inclusive.  0 = ZONE_DMA */
 	unsigned long total_scanned;
 	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
 	struct scan_control sc = {
@@ -2192,7 +2195,6 @@ loop_again:
 	count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
 
 	for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
-		int end_zone = 0;	/* Inclusive.  0 = ZONE_DMA */
 		unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
 		int has_under_min_watermark_zone = 0;
 
@@ -2201,6 +2203,7 @@ loop_again:
 			disable_swap_token();
 
 		all_zones_ok = 1;
+		any_zone_ok = 0;
 
 		/*
 		 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
@@ -2310,10 +2313,12 @@ loop_again:
 				 * spectulatively avoid congestion waits
 				 */
 				zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
+				if (i <= classzone_idx)
+					any_zone_ok = 1;
 			}
 
 		}
-		if (all_zones_ok)
+		if (all_zones_ok || (order && any_zone_ok))
 			break;		/* kswapd: all done */
 		/*
 		 * OK, kswapd is getting into trouble.  Take a nap, then take
@@ -2336,7 +2341,7 @@ loop_again:
 			break;
 	}
 out:
-	if (!all_zones_ok) {
+	if (!(all_zones_ok || (order && any_zone_ok))) {
 		cond_resched();
 
 		try_to_freeze();
@@ -2361,6 +2366,31 @@ out:
 		goto loop_again;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If kswapd was reclaiming at a higher order, it has the option of
+	 * sleeping without all zones being balanced. Before it does, it must
+	 * ensure that the watermarks for order-0 on *all* zones are met and
+	 * that the congestion flags are cleared
+	 */
+	if (order) {
+		for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
+			struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
+
+			if (!populated_zone(zone))
+				continue;
+
+			if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
+				continue;
+
+			zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
+			if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
+					high_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0)) {
+				order = sc.order = 0;
+				goto loop_again;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	return sc.nr_reclaimed;
 }
 
@@ -2380,6 +2410,7 @@ out:
 static int kswapd(void *p)
 {
 	unsigned long order;
+	int classzone_idx;
 	pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t*)p;
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
@@ -2410,19 +2441,24 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 	set_freezable();
 
 	order = 0;
+	classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
 	for ( ; ; ) {
 		unsigned long new_order;
+		int new_classzone_idx;
 		int ret;
 
 		prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		new_order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
+		new_classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
 		pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
-		if (order < new_order) {
+		pgdat->classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
+		if (order < new_order || classzone_idx > new_classzone_idx) {
 			/*
 			 * Don't sleep if someone wants a larger 'order'
-			 * allocation
+			 * allocation or has tigher zone constraints
 			 */
 			order = new_order;
+			classzone_idx = new_classzone_idx;
 		} else {
 			if (!freezing(current) && !kthread_should_stop()) {
 				long remaining = 0;
@@ -2451,6 +2487,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 			}
 
 			order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
+			classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
 		}
 		finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
 
@@ -2473,7 +2510,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 /*
  * A zone is low on free memory, so wake its kswapd task to service it.
  */
-void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order)
+void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
 {
 	pg_data_t *pgdat;
 
@@ -2483,8 +2520,10 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order)
 	pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
 	if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0))
 		return;
-	if (pgdat->kswapd_max_order < order)
+	if (pgdat->kswapd_max_order < order) {
 		pgdat->kswapd_max_order = order;
+		pgdat->classzone_idx = min(pgdat->classzone_idx, classzone_idx);
+	}
 	trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
 	if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return;
-- 
1.7.1

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