mm, compaction: check early for huge pages encountered by the migration scanner
When scanning for sources or targets, PageCompound is checked for huge
pages as they can be skipped quickly but it happens relatively late
after a lot of setup and checking. This patch short-cuts the check to
make it earlier. It might still change when the lock is acquired but
this has less overhead overall. The free scanner advances but the
migration scanner does not. Typically the free scanner encounters more
movable blocks that change state over the lifetime of the system and
also tends to scan more aggressively as it's actively filling its
portion of the physical address space with data. This could change in
the future but for the moment, this worked better in practice and
incurred fewer scan restarts.
The impact on latency and allocation success rates is marginal but the
free scan rates are reduced by 15% and system CPU usage is reduced by
3.3%. The 2-socket results are not materially different.
Change-Id: Id53eb162686c09caff271fac4c2b0accb5ab3404
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-15-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 9bebefd59084af7c75b66eeee241bf0777f39b88
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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