Vlastimil Babka 99592d598e mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page ... When studying page stealing, I noticed some weird looking decisions in try_to_steal_freepages(). The first I assume is a bug (Patch 1), the following two patches were driven by evaluation. Testing was done with stress-highalloc of mmtests, using the mm_page_alloc_extfrag tracepoint and postprocessing to get counts of how often page stealing occurs for individual migratetypes, and what migratetypes are used for fallbacks. Arguably, the worst case of page stealing is when UNMOVABLE allocation steals from MOVABLE pageblock. RECLAIMABLE allocation stealing from MOVABLE allocation is also not ideal, so the goal is to minimize these two cases. The evaluation of v2 wasn't always clear win and Joonsoo questioned the results. Here I used different baseline which includes RFC compaction improvements from [1]. I found that the compaction improvements reduce variability of stress-highalloc, so there's less noise in the data. First, let's look at stress-highalloc configured to do sync compaction, and how these patches reduce page stealing events during the test. First column is after fresh reboot, other two are reiterations of test without reboot. That was all accumulater over 5 re-iterations (so the benchmark was run 5x3 times with 5 fresh restarts). Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-nothp-1 5-nothp-2 5-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 10264225 8702233 10244125 Extfrag fragmenting 10263271 8701552 10243473 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 13595 17616 15960 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 7989 12193 8447 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 658 1840 1817 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 558 1677 1679 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 10249018 8682096 10225696 With Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-nothp-1 6-nothp-2 6-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 11834954 9877523 9774860 Extfrag fragmenting 11833993 9876880 9774245 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 7342 16129 11712 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 4191 10547 6270 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 373 1130 923 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 302 906 738 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 11826278 9859621 9761610 With Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-nothp-1 7-nothp-2 7-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 4725990 3668793 3807436 Extfrag fragmenting 4725104 3668252 3806898 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 6678 7974 7281 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 2051 3829 4017 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 429 1208 1278 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 369 976 1034 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 4717997 3659070 3798339 With Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-nothp-1 8-nothp-2 8-nothp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 5016183 4700142 3850633 Extfrag fragmenting 5015325 4699613 3850072 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 1312 3154 3088 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 1115 2777 2714 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 437 1193 1097 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 330 969 879 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 5013576 4695266 3845887 In v2 we've seen apparent regression with Patch 1 for unmovable events, this is now gone, suggesting it was indeed noise. Here, each patch improves the situation for unmovable events. Reclaimable is improved by patch 1 and then either the same modulo noise, or perhaps sligtly worse - a small price for unmovable improvements, IMHO. The number of movable allocations falling back to other migratetypes is most noisy, but it's reduced to half at Patch 2 nevertheless. These are least critical as compaction can move them around. If we look at success rates, the patches don't affect them, that didn't change. Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-nothp-1 5-nothp-2 5-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 49.00 ( 0.00%) 42.00 ( 14.29%) 41.00 ( 16.33%) Success 1 Mean 51.00 ( 0.00%) 45.00 ( 11.76%) 42.60 ( 16.47%) Success 1 Max 55.00 ( 0.00%) 51.00 ( 7.27%) 46.00 ( 16.36%) Success 2 Min 53.00 ( 0.00%) 47.00 ( 11.32%) 44.00 ( 16.98%) Success 2 Mean 59.60 ( 0.00%) 50.80 ( 14.77%) 48.20 ( 19.13%) Success 2 Max 64.00 ( 0.00%) 56.00 ( 12.50%) 52.00 ( 18.75%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 82.00 ( 2.38%) 78.00 ( 7.14%) Success 3 Mean 85.60 ( 0.00%) 82.80 ( 3.27%) 79.40 ( 7.24%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 3.49%) 80.00 ( 6.98%) Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-nothp-1 6-nothp-2 6-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 49.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 10.20%) 44.00 ( 10.20%) Success 1 Mean 51.80 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 11.20%) 45.80 ( 11.58%) Success 1 Max 54.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 9.26%) 49.00 ( 9.26%) Success 2 Min 58.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 15.52%) 48.00 ( 17.24%) Success 2 Mean 60.40 ( 0.00%) 51.80 ( 14.24%) 50.80 ( 15.89%) Success 2 Max 63.00 ( 0.00%) 54.00 ( 14.29%) 55.00 ( 12.70%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 3.57%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.00 ( 0.00%) 81.60 ( 4.00%) 79.80 ( 6.12%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 82.00 ( 4.65%) 82.00 ( 4.65%) Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-nothp-1 7-nothp-2 7-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 50.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 12.00%) 39.00 ( 22.00%) Success 1 Mean 52.80 ( 0.00%) 45.60 ( 13.64%) 42.40 ( 19.70%) Success 1 Max 55.00 ( 0.00%) 46.00 ( 16.36%) 47.00 ( 14.55%) Success 2 Min 52.00 ( 0.00%) 48.00 ( 7.69%) 45.00 ( 13.46%) Success 2 Mean 53.40 ( 0.00%) 49.80 ( 6.74%) 48.80 ( 8.61%) Success 2 Max 57.00 ( 0.00%) 52.00 ( 8.77%) 52.00 ( 8.77%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 3.57%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.00 ( 0.00%) 82.40 ( 3.06%) 79.60 ( 6.35%) Success 3 Max 86.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 3.49%) 80.00 ( 6.98%) Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-nothp-1 8-nothp-2 8-nothp-3 Success 1 Min 46.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 4.35%) 42.00 ( 8.70%) Success 1 Mean 50.20 ( 0.00%) 45.60 ( 9.16%) 44.00 ( 12.35%) Success 1 Max 52.00 ( 0.00%) 47.00 ( 9.62%) 47.00 ( 9.62%) Success 2 Min 53.00 ( 0.00%) 49.00 ( 7.55%) 48.00 ( 9.43%) Success 2 Mean 55.80 ( 0.00%) 50.60 ( 9.32%) 49.00 ( 12.19%) Success 2 Max 59.00 ( 0.00%) 52.00 ( 11.86%) 51.00 ( 13.56%) Success 3 Min 84.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 4.76%) 79.00 ( 5.95%) Success 3 Mean 85.40 ( 0.00%) 81.60 ( 4.45%) 80.40 ( 5.85%) Success 3 Max 87.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 4.60%) 82.00 ( 5.75%) While there's no improvement here, I consider reduced fragmentation events to be worth on its own. Patch 2 also seems to reduce scanning for free pages, and migrations in compaction, suggesting it has somewhat less work to do: Patch 1: Compaction stalls 4153 3959 3978 Compaction success 1523 1441 1446 Compaction failures 2630 2517 2531 Page migrate success 4600827 4943120 5104348 Page migrate failure 19763 16656 17806 Compaction pages isolated 9597640 10305617 10653541 Compaction migrate scanned 77828948 86533283 87137064 Compaction free scanned 517758295 521312840 521462251 Compaction cost 5503 5932 6110 Patch 2: Compaction stalls 3800 3450 3518 Compaction success 1421 1316 1317 Compaction failures 2379 2134 2201 Page migrate success 4160421 4502708 4752148 Page migrate failure 19705 14340 14911 Compaction pages isolated 8731983 9382374 9910043 Compaction migrate scanned 98362797 96349194 98609686 Compaction free scanned 496512560 469502017 480442545 Compaction cost 5173 5526 5811 As with v2, /proc/pagetypeinfo appears unaffected with respect to numbers of unmovable and reclaimable pageblocks. Configuring the benchmark to allocate like THP page fault (i.e. no sync compaction) gives much noisier results for iterations 2 and 3 after reboot. This is not so surprising given how [1] offers lower improvements in this scenario due to less restarts after deferred compaction which would change compaction pivot. Baseline: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 5-thp-1 5-thp-2 5-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 8148965 6227815 6646741 Extfrag fragmenting 8147872 6227130 6646117 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 10324 12942 15975 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 5972 8495 10907 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 601 1707 2210 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 520 1570 2000 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 8136947 6212481 6627932 Patch 1: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 6-thp-1 6-thp-2 6-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 8345457 7574471 7020419 Extfrag fragmenting 8343546 7573777 7019718 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 10256 18535 30716 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 6893 11726 22181 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 465 1208 1023 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 353 996 843 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 8332825 7554034 6987979 Patch 2: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 7-thp-1 7-thp-2 7-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 3512847 3020756 2891625 Extfrag fragmenting 3511940 3020185 2891059 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 9017 6892 6191 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 1524 3053 2435 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 445 1081 1160 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 375 918 986 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 3502478 3012212 2883708 Patch 3: 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 3.19-rc4 8-thp-1 8-thp-2 8-thp-3 Page alloc extfrag event 3181699 3082881 2674164 Extfrag fragmenting 3180812 3082303 2673611 Extfrag fragmenting for unmovable 1201 4031 4040 Extfrag fragmenting unmovable placed with movable 974 3611 3645 Extfrag fragmenting for reclaimable 478 1165 1294 Extfrag fragmenting reclaimable placed with movable 387 985 1030 Extfrag fragmenting for movable 3179133 3077107 2668277 The improvements for first iteration are clear, the rest is much noisier and can appear like regression for Patch 1. Anyway, patch 2 rectifies it. Allocation success rates are again unaffected so there's no point in making this e-mail any longer. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=142166196321125&w=2 This patch (of 3): When __rmqueue_fallback() is called to allocate a page of order X, it will find a page of order Y >= X of a fallback migratetype, which is different from the desired migratetype. With the help of try_to_steal_freepages(), it may change the migratetype (to the desired one) also of: 1) all currently free pages in the pageblock containing the fallback page 2) the fallback pageblock itself 3) buddy pages created by splitting the fallback page (when Y > X) These decisions take the order Y into account, as well as the desired migratetype, with the goal of preventing multiple fallback allocations that could e.g. distribute UNMOVABLE allocations among multiple pageblocks. Originally, decision for 1) has implied the decision for 3). Commit 47118af076 ("mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added") changed that (probably unintentionally) so that the buddy pages in case 3) are always changed to the desired migratetype, except for CMA pageblocks. Commit fef903efcf ("mm/page_allo.c: restructure free-page stealing code and fix a bug") did some refactoring and added a comment that the case of 3) is intended. Commit 0cbef29a78 ("mm: __rmqueue_fallback() should respect pageblock type") removed the comment and tried to restore the original behavior where 1) implies 3), but due to the previous refactoring, the result is instead that only 2) implies 3) - and the conditions for 2) are less frequently met than conditions for 1). This may increase fragmentation in situations where the code decides to steal all free pages from the pageblock (case 1)), but then gives back the buddy pages produced by splitting. This patch restores the original intended logic where 1) implies 3). During testing with stress-highalloc from mmtests, this has shown to decrease the number of events where UNMOVABLE and RECLAIMABLE allocations steal from MOVABLE pageblocks, which can lead to permanent fragmentation. In some cases it has increased the number of events when MOVABLE allocations steal from UNMOVABLE or RECLAIMABLE pageblocks, but these are fixable by sync compaction and thus less harmful. Note that evaluation has shown that the behavior introduced by 47118af076 for buddy pages in case 3) is actually even better than the original logic, so the following patch will introduce it properly once again. For stable backports of this patch it makes thus sense to only fix versions containing 0cbef29a78. [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: tracepoint fix] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.13+ containing 0cbef29a78] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2015-02-11 17:06:06 -08:00
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events	mm: when stealing freepages, also take pages created by splitting buddy page	2015-02-11 17:06:06 -08:00
define_trace.h	tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro	2013-06-20 22:24:32 -07:00
ftrace.h	perf: Avoid horrible stack usage	2015-01-14 15:11:45 +01:00
syscall.h	tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race	2014-06-21 00:15:12 -04:00