From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0536FCA9EB9 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA3D222BD for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="X6XOxHcs" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org BDA3D222BD Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 4B6016B0008; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 4662C6B000C; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 37B896B000D; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0078.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.78]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AD06B0008 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin06.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6703F8249980 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:10 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 76075412700.06.girl17_a306a5ace221 X-HE-Tag: girl17_a306a5ace221 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 5385 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-1.mimecast.com [207.211.31.81]) by imf43.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1571844068; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=93aeFP5T+vRMcJvg4/fDd9Eq3JQGr3j/oyGTUsAl3c8=; b=X6XOxHcsPUVkExbGbppmroJ8efNJVeE0cdUS9YOlHlJu/G8iKuYc05J+kYS4KVQE/mzqq8 r/wPdp+YrIFs+u1kLr3mEgEgWqIr2z+MWEKs06KbLOZdc7fxLpdbGV+P1ahgkkRNsnXEYS IDYtdBLh7nt8KFLPx56l4PGGssBVOqc= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-225-3MTVpcEMNnCZYTLXuZa83Q-1; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB7A1107AFA9; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.remote.csb (dhcp-17-59.bos.redhat.com [10.18.17.59]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3036A1001B20; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm, vmstat: reduce zone->lock holding time by /proc/pagetypeinfo From: Waiman Long To: Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner , Roman Gushchin , Vlastimil Babka , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Jann Horn , Song Liu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rafael Aquini , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Michal Hocko References: <20191023095607.GE3016@techsingularity.net> <20191023102737.32274-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <20191023102737.32274-3-mhocko@kernel.org> Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:21:00 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-MC-Unique: 3MTVpcEMNnCZYTLXuZa83Q-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 10/23/19 10:56 AM, Waiman Long wrote: > On 10/23/19 6:27 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> From: Michal Hocko >> >> pagetypeinfo_showfree_print is called by zone->lock held in irq mode. >> This is not really nice because it blocks both any interrupts on that >> cpu and the page allocator. On large machines this might even trigger >> the hard lockup detector. >> >> Considering the pagetypeinfo is a debugging tool we do not really need >> exact numbers here. The primary reason to look at the outuput is to see >> how pageblocks are spread among different migratetypes therefore putting >> a bound on the number of pages on the free_list sounds like a reasonable >> tradeoff. >> >> The new output will simply tell >> [...] >> Node 6, zone Normal, type Movable >100000 >100000 >100000 >100= 000 41019 31560 23996 10054 3229 983 648 >> >> instead of >> Node 6, zone Normal, type Movable 399568 294127 221558 102119 = 41019 31560 23996 10054 3229 983 648 >> >> The limit has been chosen arbitrary and it is a subject of a future >> change should there be a need for that. >> >> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton >> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko >> --- >> mm/vmstat.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c >> index 4e885ecd44d1..762034fc3b83 100644 >> --- a/mm/vmstat.c >> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c >> @@ -1386,8 +1386,25 @@ static void pagetypeinfo_showfree_print(struct se= q_file *m, >> =20 >> =09=09=09area =3D &(zone->free_area[order]); >> =20 >> -=09=09=09list_for_each(curr, &area->free_list[mtype]) >> +=09=09=09list_for_each(curr, &area->free_list[mtype]) { >> =09=09=09=09freecount++; >> +=09=09=09=09/* >> +=09=09=09=09 * Cap the free_list iteration because it might >> +=09=09=09=09 * be really large and we are under a spinlock >> +=09=09=09=09 * so a long time spent here could trigger a >> +=09=09=09=09 * hard lockup detector. Anyway this is a >> +=09=09=09=09 * debugging tool so knowing there is a handful >> +=09=09=09=09 * of pages in this order should be more than >> +=09=09=09=09 * sufficient >> +=09=09=09=09 */ >> +=09=09=09=09if (freecount > 100000) { >> +=09=09=09=09=09seq_printf(m, ">%6lu ", freecount); It will print ">100001" which seems a bit awk and will be incorrect if it is exactly 100001. Could you just hardcode ">100000" into seq_printf()? Cheers, Longman