mm: compaction: optimize proactive compaction deferrals
authorCharan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:59:56 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:58:17 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commite1e92bfa3825b72be4957f9fef267b3106d20aa6
tree8d99328e0d396d826ba6ade4a4414b1452e6229d
parent1399af7e54896c774d67f1c1acc491b07149421d
mm: compaction: optimize proactive compaction deferrals

Vlastimil Babka figured out that when fragmentation score didn't go down
across the proactive compaction i.e.  when no progress is made, next wake
up for proactive compaction is deferred for 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT,
i.e.  64 times, with each wakeup interval of
HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC(=500).  In each of this wakeup, it just
decrement 'proactive_defer' counter and goes sleep i.e.  it is getting
woken to just decrement a counter.

The same deferral time can also achieved by simply doing the
HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT thus unnecessary
wakeup of kcompact thread is avoided thus also removes the need of
'proactive_defer' thread counter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/88abfdb6-2c13-b5a6-5b46-742d12d1c910@suse.cz/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1626869599-25412-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c