From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f198.google.com (mail-qt0-f198.google.com [209.85.216.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758AB6B0033 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:49:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qt0-f198.google.com with SMTP id q3so141031943qtf.4 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:49:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qt0-x241.google.com (mail-qt0-x241.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h56si12586222qta.166.2017.01.23.23.49.12 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-qt0-x241.google.com with SMTP id l7so23233602qtd.3 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2017 23:49:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jia He Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/3] optimize kswapd when it does reclaim for hugepage Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:49:01 +0800 Message-Id: <1485244144-13487-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Naoya Horiguchi , Michal Hocko , Mike Kravetz , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Gerald Schaefer , zhong jiang , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Vaishali Thakkar , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Vlastimil Babka , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Jia He If there is a server with uneven numa memory layout: available: 7 nodes (0-6) node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 node 0 size: 6603 MB node 0 free: 91 MB node 1 cpus: node 1 size: 12527 MB node 1 free: 157 MB node 2 cpus: node 2 size: 15087 MB node 2 free: 189 MB node 3 cpus: node 3 size: 16111 MB node 3 free: 205 MB node 4 cpus: 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 node 4 size: 24815 MB node 4 free: 310 MB node 5 cpus: node 5 size: 4095 MB node 5 free: 61 MB node 6 cpus: node 6 size: 22750 MB node 6 free: 283 MB node distances: node 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0: 10 20 40 40 40 40 40 1: 20 10 40 40 40 40 40 2: 40 40 10 20 40 40 40 3: 40 40 20 10 40 40 40 4: 40 40 40 40 10 20 40 5: 40 40 40 40 20 10 40 6: 40 40 40 40 40 40 10 In this case node 5 has less memory and we will alloc the hugepages from these nodes one by one after we trigger echo 4000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages Then the kswapd5 will take 100% cpu for a long time. This is a livelock issue in kswapd. This patch set fixes it. The 3rd patch improves the kswapd's bad performance significantly. Jia He (3): mm/hugetlb: split alloc_fresh_huge_page_node into fast and slow path mm, vmscan: limit kswapd loop if no progress is made mm, vmscan: correct prepare_kswapd_sleep return value mm/hugetlb.c | 9 +++++++++ mm/vmscan.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org