linux-kernel - Re: excessive CPU utilization by isolate

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:52:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Jim Schutt <jaschut@...dia.gov>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: excessive CPU utilization by isolate_freepages?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > I doubt compaction try to migrate continuously although we have no free
> > memory.
> > Could you apply this patch and retest?
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/21/30
> 

Not sure if Jim is using memcg; if not, then this won't be helpful.

> Another possibility is that compaction is succeeding every time,
> but since we always start scanning all the way at the beginning
> and end of each zone, we waste a lot of CPU time rescanning the
> same pages (that we just filled up with moved pages) to see if
> any are free.
> 
> In short, due to the way compaction behaves right now,
> compaction + isolate_freepages are essentially quadratic.
> 
> What we need to do is remember where we left off after a
> successful compaction, so we can continue the search there
> at the next invocation.
> 

So when the free and migration scanners meet and compact_finished() == 
COMPACT_CONTINUE, loop around to the start of the zone and continue until 
you reach the pfn that it was started at?  Seems appropriate.
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