linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] (CMA_AGGRESSIVE) Make CMA memory be more aggressive about allocation

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Message-ID: <20141024052553.GE15243@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:25:53 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Hui Zhu <zhuhui@...omi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] (CMA_AGGRESSIVE) Make CMA memory be more aggressive
 about allocation

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:35:47AM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
> In fallbacks of page_alloc.c, MIGRATE_CMA is the fallback of
> MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
> MIGRATE_MOVABLE will use MIGRATE_CMA when it doesn't have a page in
> order that Linux kernel want.
> 
> If a system that has a lot of user space program is running, for
> instance, an Android board, most of memory is in MIGRATE_MOVABLE and
> allocated.  Before function __rmqueue_fallback get memory from
> MIGRATE_CMA, the oom_killer will kill a task to release memory when
> kernel want get MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE memory because fallbacks of
> MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE are MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE and MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
> This status is odd.  The MIGRATE_CMA has a lot free memory but Linux
> kernel kill some tasks to release memory.
> 
> This patch series adds a new function CMA_AGGRESSIVE to make CMA memory
> be more aggressive about allocation.
> If function CMA_AGGRESSIVE is available, when Linux kernel call function
> __rmqueue try to get pages from MIGRATE_MOVABLE and conditions allow,
> MIGRATE_CMA will be allocated as MIGRATE_MOVABLE first.  If MIGRATE_CMA
> doesn't have enough pages for allocation, go back to allocate memory from
> MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
> Then the memory of MIGRATE_MOVABLE can be kept for MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE and
> MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE which doesn't have fallback MIGRATE_CMA.

Hello,

I did some work similar to this.
Please reference following links.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/64
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/57

And, aggressive allocation should be postponed until freepage counting
bug is fixed, because aggressive allocation enlarge the possiblity
of problem occurence. I tried to fix that bug, too. See following link.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/90

Thanks.
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