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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 11/13] mm, compaction: skip buddy pages by their order in the migrate scanner
On Mon,  4 Aug 2014 10:55:22 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> The migration scanner skips PageBuddy pages, but does not consider their order
> as checking page_order() is generally unsafe without holding the zone->lock,
> and acquiring the lock just for the check wouldn't be a good tradeoff.
>
> Still, this could avoid some iterations over the rest of the buddy page, and
> if we are careful, the race window between PageBuddy() check and page_order()
> is small, and the worst thing that can happen is that we skip too much and miss
> some isolation candidates. This is not that bad, as compaction can already fail
> for many other reasons like parallel allocations, and those have much larger
> race window.
>
> This patch therefore makes the migration scanner obtain the buddy page order
> and use it to skip the whole buddy page, if the order appears to be in the
> valid range.
>
> It's important that the page_order() is read only once, so that the value used
> in the checks and in the pfn calculation is the same. But in theory the
> compiler can replace the local variable by multiple inlines of page_order().
> Therefore, the patch introduces page_order_unsafe() that uses ACCESS_ONCE to
> prevent this.
>
> Testing with stress-highalloc from mmtests shows a 15% reduction in number of
> pages scanned by migration scanner. The reduction is >60% with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
> allocations, along with success rates better by few percent.
> This change is also a prerequisite for a later patch which is detecting when
> a cc->order block of pages contains non-buddy pages that cannot be isolated,
> and the scanner should thus skip to the next block immediately.

What is this "later patch"? Or is the changelog stale?


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