mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy
The fair zone allocation policy interleaves allocation requests between
zones to avoid an age inversion problem whereby new pages are reclaimed
to balance a zone. Reclaim is now node-based so this should no longer
be an issue and the fair zone allocation policy is not free. This patch
removes it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-30-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c9d1720..1dd0f1f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2587,7 +2587,6 @@
else
page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
- __dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
list_del(&page->lru);
pcp->count--;
@@ -2613,15 +2612,10 @@
spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
if (!page)
goto failed;
- __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, -(1 << order));
__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order),
get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
}
- if (atomic_long_read(&zone->vm_stat[NR_ALLOC_BATCH]) <= 0 &&
- !test_bit(ZONE_FAIR_DEPLETED, &zone->flags))
- set_bit(ZONE_FAIR_DEPLETED, &zone->flags);
-
__count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order);
zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, gfp_flags);
local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -2832,40 +2826,18 @@
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-static bool zone_local(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
-{
- return local_zone->node == zone->node;
-}
-
static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
{
return node_distance(zone_to_nid(local_zone), zone_to_nid(zone)) <
RECLAIM_DISTANCE;
}
#else /* CONFIG_NUMA */
-static bool zone_local(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
-{
- return true;
-}
-
static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone)
{
return true;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
-static void reset_alloc_batches(struct zone *preferred_zone)
-{
- struct zone *zone = preferred_zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones;
-
- do {
- mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH,
- high_wmark_pages(zone) - low_wmark_pages(zone) -
- atomic_long_read(&zone->vm_stat[NR_ALLOC_BATCH]));
- clear_bit(ZONE_FAIR_DEPLETED, &zone->flags);
- } while (zone++ != preferred_zone);
-}
-
/*
* get_page_from_freelist goes through the zonelist trying to allocate
* a page.
@@ -2876,10 +2848,6 @@
{
struct zoneref *z = ac->preferred_zoneref;
struct zone *zone;
- bool fair_skipped = false;
- bool apply_fair = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_FAIR);
-
-zonelist_scan:
/*
* Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free.
* See also __cpuset_node_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
@@ -2894,23 +2862,6 @@
!__cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, gfp_mask))
continue;
/*
- * Distribute pages in proportion to the individual
- * zone size to ensure fair page aging. The zone a
- * page was allocated in should have no effect on the
- * time the page has in memory before being reclaimed.
- */
- if (apply_fair) {
- if (test_bit(ZONE_FAIR_DEPLETED, &zone->flags)) {
- fair_skipped = true;
- continue;
- }
- if (!zone_local(ac->preferred_zoneref->zone, zone)) {
- if (fair_skipped)
- goto reset_fair;
- apply_fair = false;
- }
- }
- /*
* When allocating a page cache page for writing, we
* want to get it from a node that is within its dirty
* limit, such that no single node holds more than its
@@ -2981,23 +2932,6 @@
}
}
- /*
- * The first pass makes sure allocations are spread fairly within the
- * local node. However, the local node might have free pages left
- * after the fairness batches are exhausted, and remote zones haven't
- * even been considered yet. Try once more without fairness, and
- * include remote zones now, before entering the slowpath and waking
- * kswapd: prefer spilling to a remote zone over swapping locally.
- */
- if (fair_skipped) {
-reset_fair:
- apply_fair = false;
- fair_skipped = false;
- reset_alloc_batches(ac->preferred_zoneref->zone);
- z = ac->preferred_zoneref;
- goto zonelist_scan;
- }
-
return NULL;
}
@@ -3746,7 +3680,7 @@
{
struct page *page;
unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie;
- unsigned int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_LOW|ALLOC_FAIR;
+ unsigned int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_LOW;
gfp_t alloc_mask = gfp_mask; /* The gfp_t that was actually used for allocation */
struct alloc_context ac = {
.high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask),
@@ -5958,9 +5892,6 @@
zone_seqlock_init(zone);
zone_pcp_init(zone);
- /* For bootup, initialized properly in watermark setup */
- mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages);
-
if (!size)
continue;
@@ -6808,10 +6739,6 @@
zone->watermark[WMARK_LOW] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp;
zone->watermark[WMARK_HIGH] = min_wmark_pages(zone) + tmp * 2;
- __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH,
- high_wmark_pages(zone) - low_wmark_pages(zone) -
- atomic_long_read(&zone->vm_stat[NR_ALLOC_BATCH]));
-
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
}