tree 7ce0e365cfc5acfd8ef737c1acec46c1b3ddc0a8
parent 1f9efdef4f3f1d2a073e524113fd0038af636f2b
author Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 1412893636 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1412907954 -0400

mm, compaction: periodically drop lock and restore IRQs in scanners

Compaction scanners regularly check for lock contention and need_resched()
through the compact_checklock_irqsave() function.  However, if there is no
contention, the lock can be held and IRQ disabled for potentially long
time.

This has been addressed by commit b2eef8c0d091 ("mm: compaction: minimise
the time IRQs are disabled while isolating pages for migration") for the
migration scanner.  However, the refactoring done by commit 2a1402aa044b
("mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lru_lock as late as possible") has
changed the conditions so that the lock is dropped only when there's
contention on the lock or need_resched() is true.  Also, need_resched() is
checked only when the lock is already held.  The comment "give a chance to
irqs before checking need_resched" is therefore misleading, as IRQs remain
disabled when the check is done.

This patch restores the behavior intended by commit b2eef8c0d091 and also
tries to better balance and make more deterministic the time spent by
checking for contention vs the time the scanners might run between the
checks.  It also avoids situations where checking has not been done often
enough before.  The result should be avoiding both too frequent and too
infrequent contention checking, and especially the potentially
long-running scans with IRQs disabled and no checking of need_resched() or
for fatal signal pending, which can happen when many consecutive pages or
pageblocks fail the preliminary tests and do not reach the later call site
to compact_checklock_irqsave(), as explained below.

Before the patch:

In the migration scanner, compact_checklock_irqsave() was called each
loop, if reached.  If not reached, some lower-frequency checking could
still be done if the lock was already held, but this would not result in
aborting contended async compaction until reaching
compact_checklock_irqsave() or end of pageblock.  In the free scanner, it
was similar but completely without the periodical checking, so lock can be
potentially held until reaching the end of pageblock.

After the patch, in both scanners:

The periodical check is done as the first thing in the loop on each
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX aligned pfn, using the new compact_unlock_should_abort()
function, which always unlocks the lock (if locked) and aborts async
compaction if scheduling is needed.  It also aborts any type of compaction
when a fatal signal is pending.

The compact_checklock_irqsave() function is replaced with a slightly
different compact_trylock_irqsave().  The biggest difference is that the
function is not called at all if the lock is already held.  The periodical
need_resched() checking is left solely to compact_unlock_should_abort().
The lock contention avoidance for async compaction is achieved by the
periodical unlock by compact_unlock_should_abort() and by using trylock in
compact_trylock_irqsave() and aborting when trylock fails.  Sync
compaction does not use trylock.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>