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Commit aa32e506 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target

Similar to the migration scanner, this patch uses the free lists to
quickly locate a migration target.  The search is different in that
lower orders will be searched for a suitable high PFN if necessary but
the search is still bound.  This is justified on the grounds that the
free scanner typically scans linearly much more than the migration
scanner.

If a free page is found, it is isolated and compaction continues if
enough pages were isolated.  For SYNC* scanning, the full pageblock is
scanned for any remaining free pages so that is can be marked for
skipping in the near future.

1-socket thpfioscale
                                     5.0.0-rc1              5.0.0-rc1
                                 isolmig-v3r15         findfree-v3r16
Amean     fault-both-3      3024.41 (   0.00%)     3200.68 (  -5.83%)
Amean     fault-both-5      4749.30 (   0.00%)     4847.75 (  -2.07%)
Amean     fault-both-7      6454.95 (   0.00%)     6658.92 (  -3.16%)
Amean     fault-both-12    10324.83 (   0.00%)    11077.62 (  -7.29%)
Amean     fault-both-18    12896.82 (   0.00%)    12403.97 (   3.82%)
Amean     fault-both-24    13470.60 (   0.00%)    15607.10 * -15.86%*
Amean     fault-both-30    17143.99 (   0.00%)    18752.27 (  -9.38%)
Amean     fault-both-32    17743.91 (   0.00%)    21207.54 * -19.52%*

The impact on latency is variable but the search is optimistic and
sensitive to the exact system state.  Success rates are similar but the
major impact is to the rate of scanning

                                5.0.0-rc1      5.0.0-rc1
                            isolmig-v3r15 findfree-v3r16
Compaction migrate scanned    25646769          29507205
Compaction free scanned      201558184         100359571

The free scan rates are reduced by 50%.  The 2-socket reductions for the
free scanner are more dramatic which is a likely reflection that the
machine has more memory.

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix static checker warning]
[vbabka@suse.cz: correct number of pages scanned for lower orders]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-12-mgorman@techsingularity.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change-Id: If5a453f546138631a88acbf89a70f238623df491
Git-commit: 5a811889de10f1ebb8e03a2744be006e909c405c
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git


Signed-off-by: default avatarVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
parent 15d9664b
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