From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f180.google.com (mail-we0-f180.google.com [74.125.82.180]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369036B0032 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:29:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id w62so1415134wes.11 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kz5si40245683wjc.167.2015.01.13.00.29.47 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:29:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54B4D778.7050501@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:29:44 +0100 From: Vlastimil Babka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/compaction: more trace to understand when/why compaction start/finish References: <1421050875-26332-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <1421050875-26332-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <54B3EE11.3040303@suse.cz> <20150113071605.GA29898@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> In-Reply-To: <20150113071605.GA29898@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , David Rientjes , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/13/2015 08:16 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 04:53:53PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 01/12/2015 09:21 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >> > It is not well analyzed that when/why compaction start/finish or not. With >> > these new tracepoints, we can know much more about start/finish reason of >> > compaction. I can find following bug with these tracepoint. >> > >> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg81582.html >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim >> > --- >> > include/linux/compaction.h | 3 ++ >> > include/trace/events/compaction.h | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > mm/compaction.c | 41 ++++++++++++++-- >> > 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h >> > index a9547b6..d82181a 100644 >> > --- a/include/linux/compaction.h >> > +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h >> > @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ >> > #define COMPACT_PARTIAL 3 >> > /* The full zone was compacted */ >> > #define COMPACT_COMPLETE 4 >> > +/* For more detailed tracepoint output */ >> > +#define COMPACT_NO_SUITABLE_PAGE 5 >> > +#define COMPACT_NOT_SUITABLE_ZONE 6 >> > /* When adding new state, please change compaction_status_string, too */ >> > >> > /* Used to signal whether compaction detected need_sched() or lock contention */ >> > diff --git a/include/trace/events/compaction.h b/include/trace/events/compaction.h >> > index 139020b..839dd4f 100644 >> > --- a/include/trace/events/compaction.h >> > +++ b/include/trace/events/compaction.h >> > @@ -164,6 +164,100 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_end, >> > compaction_status_string[__entry->status]) >> > ); >> > >> > +TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_try_to_compact_pages, >> > + >> > + TP_PROTO( >> > + int order, >> > + gfp_t gfp_mask, >> > + enum migrate_mode mode, >> > + int alloc_flags, >> > + int classzone_idx), >> >> I wonder if alloc_flags and classzone_idx is particularly useful. It affects the >> watermark checks, but those are a bit of blackbox anyway. > > Yes, I think so. How about printing gfp_flag rather than these? It would > tell us migratetype and other information so would be useful. Yeah gfp_mask should be enough. > > Thanks. > -- 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