From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL X-Git-Tag: next-20140610~35^2~13^2~186 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=675becce15;p=karo-tx-linux.git mm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL throttle_direct_reclaim() is meant to trigger during swap-over-network during which the min watermark is treated as a pfmemalloc reserve. It throttes on the first node in the zonelist but this is flawed. The user-visible impact is that a process running on CPU whose local memory node has no ZONE_NORMAL will stall for prolonged periods of time, possibly indefintely. This is due to throttle_direct_reclaim thinking the pfmemalloc reserves are depleted when in fact they don't exist on that node. On a NUMA machine running a 32-bit kernel (I know) allocation requests from CPUs on node 1 would detect no pfmemalloc reserves and the process gets throttled. This patch adjusts throttling of direct reclaim to throttle based on the first node in the zonelist that has a usable ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index fbcf46076c4f..53e4534885ad 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2537,10 +2537,17 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat) for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) { zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i]; + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone); free_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); } + /* If there are no reserves (unexpected config) then do not throttle */ + if (!pfmemalloc_reserve) + return true; + wmark_ok = free_pages > pfmemalloc_reserve / 2; /* kswapd must be awake if processes are being throttled */ @@ -2565,9 +2572,9 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat) static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask) { + struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; - int high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask); - pg_data_t *pgdat; + pg_data_t *pgdat = NULL; /* * Kernel threads should not be throttled as they may be indirectly @@ -2586,10 +2593,34 @@ static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) goto out; - /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */ - first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, NULL, &zone); - pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; - if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) + /* + * Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok by finding the first node + * with a usable ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone. The expectation is that + * GFP_KERNEL will be required for allocating network buffers when + * swapping over the network so ZONE_HIGHMEM is unusable. + * + * Throttling is based on the first usable node and throttled processes + * wait on a queue until kswapd makes progress and wakes them. There + * is an affinity then between processes waking up and where reclaim + * progress has been made assuming the process wakes on the same node. + * More importantly, processes running on remote nodes will not compete + * for remote pfmemalloc reserves and processes on different nodes + * should make reasonable progress. + */ + for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, + gfp_mask, nodemask) { + if (zone_idx(zone) > ZONE_NORMAL) + continue; + + /* Throttle based on the first usable node */ + pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; + if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) + goto out; + break; + } + + /* If no zone was usable by the allocation flags then do not throttle */ + if (!pgdat) goto out; /* Account for the throttling */