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: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>