From f50de2d3811081957156b5d736778799379c29de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and double check it should be asleep After kswapd balances all zones in a pgdat, it goes to sleep. In the event of no IO congestion, kswapd can go to sleep very shortly after the high watermark was reached. If there are a constant stream of allocations from parallel processes, it can mean that kswapd went to sleep too quickly and the high watermark is not being maintained for sufficient length time. This patch makes kswapd go to sleep as a two-stage process. It first tries to sleep for HZ/10. If it is woken up by another process or the high watermark is no longer met, it's considered a premature sleep and kswapd continues work. Otherwise it goes fully to sleep. This adds more counters to distinguish between fast and slow breaches of watermarks. A "fast" premature sleep is one where the low watermark was hit in a very short time after kswapd going to sleep. A "slow" premature sleep indicates that the high watermark was breached after a very short interval. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Frans Pop Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/vmstat.h | 1 + mm/vmscan.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h index d85889710f9b..fd5be240c0b7 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED, #endif PGINODESTEAL, SLABS_SCANNED, KSWAPD_STEAL, KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, + KSWAPD_PREMATURE_FAST, KSWAPD_PREMATURE_SLOW, PAGEOUTRUN, ALLOCSTALL, PGROTATED, #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC, HTLB_BUDDY_PGALLOC_FAIL, diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 61d3a9a0d96f..e176bd3936da 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1904,6 +1904,24 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont, } #endif +/* is kswapd sleeping prematurely? */ +static int sleeping_prematurely(int order, long remaining) +{ + struct zone *zone; + + /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */ + if (remaining) + return 1; + + /* If after HZ/10, a zone is below the high mark, it's premature */ + for_each_populated_zone(zone) + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone), + 0, 0)) + return 1; + + return 0; +} + /* * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone). @@ -2185,8 +2203,30 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) */ order = new_order; } else { - if (!freezing(current) && !kthread_should_stop()) - schedule(); + if (!freezing(current) && !kthread_should_stop()) { + long remaining = 0; + + /* Try to sleep for a short interval */ + if (!sleeping_prematurely(order, remaining)) { + remaining = schedule_timeout(HZ/10); + finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait); + prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + } + + /* + * After a short sleep, check if it was a + * premature sleep. If not, then go fully + * to sleep until explicitly woken up + */ + if (!sleeping_prematurely(order, remaining)) + schedule(); + else { + if (remaining) + count_vm_event(KSWAPD_PREMATURE_FAST); + else + count_vm_event(KSWAPD_PREMATURE_SLOW); + } + } order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order; } diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index dad2327e4580..63ab71455c5b 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -683,6 +683,8 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "slabs_scanned", "kswapd_steal", "kswapd_inodesteal", + "kswapd_slept_prematurely_fast", + "kswapd_slept_prematurely_slow", "pageoutrun", "allocstall", -- 2.30.2