From 47ecfcb7d01418fcbfbc75183ba5e28e98b667b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:27:01 +0000 Subject: mm: compaction: Partially revert capture of suitable high-order page Eric Wong reported on 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 that ppoll() got stuck when waiting for POLLIN on a local TCP socket. It was easier to trigger if there was disk IO and dirty pages at the same time and he bisected it to commit 1fb3f8ca0e92 ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available"). The intention of that patch was to improve high-order allocations under memory pressure after changes made to reclaim in 3.6 drastically hurt THP allocations but the approach was flawed. For Eric, the problem was that page->pfmemalloc was not being cleared for captured pages leading to a poor interaction with swap-over-NFS support causing the packets to be dropped. However, I identified a few more problems with the patch including the fact that it can increase contention on zone->lock in some cases which could result in async direct compaction being aborted early. In retrospect the capture patch took the wrong approach. What it should have done is mark the pageblock being migrated as MIGRATE_ISOLATE if it was allocating for THP and avoided races that way. While the patch was showing to improve allocation success rates at the time, the benefit is marginal given the relative complexity and it should be revisited from scratch in the context of the other reclaim-related changes that have taken place since the patch was first written and tested. This patch partially reverts commit 1fb3f8ca "mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available". Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Wong Tested-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/compaction.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/compaction.h') diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h index 6ecb6dc..cc7bdde 100644 --- a/include/linux/compaction.h +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ extern int sysctl_extfrag_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order); extern unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask, - bool sync, bool *contended, struct page **page); + bool sync, bool *contended); extern int compact_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order); extern void reset_isolation_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat); extern unsigned long compaction_suitable(struct zone *zone, int order); @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline bool compaction_restarting(struct zone *zone, int order) #else static inline unsigned long try_to_compact_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order, gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, - bool sync, bool *contended, struct page **page) + bool sync, bool *contended) { return COMPACT_CONTINUE; } -- cgit v1.1