Getting -EBUSY from zs_page_migrate will make migration slow (retry) or
fail (zs_page_putback will schedule_work free_work, but it cannot ensure
the success).
I noticed this issue because my Kernel patched
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/113) that will remove retry in
__alloc_contig_migrate_range.
This retry will handle the -EBUSY because it will re-isolate the page
and re-call migrate_pages. Without it will make cma_alloc fail at once
with -EBUSY.
According to the review from Minchan Kim in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/113, I update the patch to skip
unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage is not inuse.
Following is what I got with highalloc-performance in a vbox with 2 cpu
1G memory 512 zram as swap. And the swappiness is set to 100.
ori ne
orig new
Minor Faults 50805113 50830235
Major Faults 43918 56530
Swap Ins 42087 55680
Swap Outs 89718 104700
Allocation stalls 0 0
DMA allocs 57787 52364
DMA32 allocs 47964599 48043563
Normal allocs 0 0
Movable allocs 0 0
Direct pages scanned 45493 23167
Kswapd pages scanned 1565222 1725078
Kswapd pages reclaimed 1342222 1503037
Direct pages reclaimed 45615 25186
Kswapd efficiency 85% 87%
Kswapd velocity 1897.101 1949.042
Direct efficiency 100% 108%
Direct velocity 55.139 26.175
Percentage direct scans 2% 1%
Zone normal velocity 1952.240 1975.217
Zone dma32 velocity 0.000 0.000
Zone dma velocity 0.000 0.000
Page writes by reclaim 89764.000 105233.000
Page writes file 46 533
Page writes anon 89718 104700
Page reclaim immediate 21457 3699
Sector Reads 3259688 3441368
Sector Writes 3667252 3754836
Page rescued immediate 0 0
Slabs scanned 1042872 1160855
Direct inode steals 8042 10089
Kswapd inode steals 54295 29170
Kswapd skipped wait 0 0
THP fault alloc 175 154
THP collapse alloc 226 289
THP splits 0 0
THP fault fallback 11 14
THP collapse fail 3 2
Compaction stalls 536 646
Compaction success 322 358
Compaction failures 214 288
Page migrate success 119608 111063
Page migrate failure 2723 2593
Compaction pages isolated 250179 232652
Compaction migrate scanned 9131832 9942306
Compaction free scanned 2093272 2613998
Compaction cost 192 189
NUMA alloc hit 47124555 47193990
NUMA alloc miss 0 0
NUMA interleave hit 0 0
NUMA alloc local 47124555 47193990
NUMA base PTE updates 0 0
NUMA huge PMD updates 0 0
NUMA page range updates 0 0
NUMA hint faults 0 0
NUMA hint local faults 0 0
NUMA hint local percent 100 100
NUMA pages migrated 0 0
AutoNUMA cost 0% 0%
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove newline, per Minchan]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500889535-19648-1-git-send-email-zhuhui@xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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