linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] thp: limit number of object to scan on deferred_split

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Message-Id: <1453378163-133609-4-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:09:23 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] thp: limit number of object to scan on deferred_split_scan()

If we have a lot of pages in queue to be split, deferred_split_scan()
can spend unreasonable amount of time under spinlock with disabled
interrupts.

Let's cap number of pages to split on scan by sc->nr_to_scan.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 36f98459f854..298dbc001b07 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3478,17 +3478,19 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
 	int split = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);
-	list_splice_init(&pgdata->split_queue, &list);
-
 	/* Take pin on all head pages to avoid freeing them under us */
 	list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) {
 		page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping);
 		page = compound_head(page);
-		/* race with put_compound_page() */
-		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+		if (get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+			list_move(page_deferred_list(page), &list);
+		} else {
+			/* We lost race with put_compound_page() */
 			list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page));
 			pgdata->split_queue_len--;
 		}
+		if (!--sc->nr_to_scan)
+			break;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags);
 
-- 
2.7.0.rc3