zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: skip unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage...
authorHui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com>
Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:21:08 +0000 (16:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 7 Sep 2017 00:27:26 +0000 (17:27 -0700)
commit77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c
tree6af34a7e50fa840b80f22bc558b5d4dd31f2a39e
parent4647706ebeee6e50f7b9f922b095f4ec94d581c3
zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: skip unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage is not inuse

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>
mm/zsmalloc.c