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mm, compaction: skip compound pages by order in free scanner

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The compaction free scanner is looking for PageBuddy() pages and
skipping all others.  For large compound pages such as THP or hugetlbfs,
we can save a lot of iterations if we skip them at once using their
compound_order().  This is generally unsafe and we can read a bogus
value of order due to a race, but if we are careful, the only danger is
skipping too much.

When tested with stress-highalloc from mmtests on 4GB system with 1GB
hugetlbfs pages, the vmstat compact_free_scanned count decreased by at
least 15%.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: 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>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka 2015-09-08 15:02:49 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 29c0dde830
commit 9fcd6d2e05
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@ -437,6 +437,24 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
if (!valid_page)
valid_page = page;
/*
* For compound pages such as THP and hugetlbfs, we can save
* potentially a lot of iterations if we skip them at once.
* The check is racy, but we can consider only valid values
* and the only danger is skipping too much.
*/
if (PageCompound(page)) {
unsigned int comp_order = compound_order(page);
if (likely(comp_order < MAX_ORDER)) {
blockpfn += (1UL << comp_order) - 1;
cursor += (1UL << comp_order) - 1;
}
goto isolate_fail;
}
if (!PageBuddy(page))
goto isolate_fail;
@ -496,6 +514,13 @@ isolate_fail:
}
/*
* There is a tiny chance that we have read bogus compound_order(),
* so be careful to not go outside of the pageblock.
*/
if (unlikely(blockpfn > end_pfn))
blockpfn = end_pfn;
trace_mm_compaction_isolate_freepages(*start_pfn, blockpfn,
nr_scanned, total_isolated);