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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2016-05-20 16:56:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700
commitcab1802b5f0dddea30547a7451fda8c7e4c593f0 (patch)
treec769cdfe687df9d76ae0b429c1f1a6c3fd171dd2 /include/linux/compaction.h
parentc5d01d0d18e2ab7a21f0371b00e4d1a06f79cdf5 (diff)
mm, compaction: abstract compaction feedback to helpers
Compaction can provide a wild variation of feedback to the caller. Many of them are implementation specific and the caller of the compaction (especially the page allocator) shouldn't be bound to specifics of the current implementation. This patch abstracts the feedback into three basic types: - compaction_made_progress - compaction was active and made some progress. - compaction_failed - compaction failed and further attempts to invoke it would most probably fail and therefore it is not worth retrying - compaction_withdrawn - compaction wasn't invoked for an implementation specific reasons. In the current implementation it means that the compaction was deferred, contended or the page scanners met too early without any progress. Retrying is still worthwhile. [vbabka@suse.cz: do not change thp back off behavior] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment, per Hillf] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compaction.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compaction.h79
1 files changed, 79 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index ff39fa0a1ede..8d8c916fe67a 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -78,6 +78,70 @@ extern void compaction_defer_reset(struct zone *zone, int order,
bool alloc_success);
extern bool compaction_restarting(struct zone *zone, int order);
+/* Compaction has made some progress and retrying makes sense */
+static inline bool compaction_made_progress(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ /*
+ * Even though this might sound confusing this in fact tells us
+ * that the compaction successfully isolated and migrated some
+ * pageblocks.
+ */
+ if (result == COMPACT_PARTIAL)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/* Compaction has failed and it doesn't make much sense to keep retrying. */
+static inline bool compaction_failed(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ /* All zones were scanned completely and still not result. */
+ if (result == COMPACT_COMPLETE)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Compaction has backed off for some reason. It might be throttling or
+ * lock contention. Retrying is still worthwhile.
+ */
+static inline bool compaction_withdrawn(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ /*
+ * Compaction backed off due to watermark checks for order-0
+ * so the regular reclaim has to try harder and reclaim something.
+ */
+ if (result == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * If compaction is deferred for high-order allocations, it is
+ * because sync compaction recently failed. If this is the case
+ * and the caller requested a THP allocation, we do not want
+ * to heavily disrupt the system, so we fail the allocation
+ * instead of entering direct reclaim.
+ */
+ if (result == COMPACT_DEFERRED)
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * If compaction in async mode encounters contention or blocks higher
+ * priority task we back off early rather than cause stalls.
+ */
+ if (result == COMPACT_CONTENDED)
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * Page scanners have met but we haven't scanned full zones so this
+ * is a back off in fact.
+ */
+ if (result == COMPACT_PARTIAL_SKIPPED)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
extern int kcompactd_run(int nid);
extern void kcompactd_stop(int nid);
extern void wakeup_kcompactd(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx);
@@ -114,6 +178,21 @@ static inline bool compaction_deferred(struct zone *zone, int order)
return true;
}
+static inline bool compaction_made_progress(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool compaction_failed(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool compaction_withdrawn(enum compact_result result)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
static inline int kcompactd_run(int nid)
{
return 0;