Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:41:30 -0800 | From | Chris Goldsworthy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily |
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On 2021-03-10 08:14, Minchan Kim wrote: > LRU pagevec holds refcount of pages until the pagevec are drained. > It could prevent migration since the refcount of the page is greater > than the expection in migration logic. To mitigate the issue, > callers of migrate_pages drains LRU pagevec via migrate_prep or > lru_add_drain_all before migrate_pages call. > > However, it's not enough because pages coming into pagevec after the > draining call still could stay at the pagevec so it could keep > preventing page migration. Since some callers of migrate_pages have > retrial logic with LRU draining, the page would migrate at next trail > but it is still fragile in that it doesn't close the fundamental race > between upcoming LRU pages into pagvec and migration so the migration > failure could cause contiguous memory allocation failure in the end. > > To close the race, this patch disables lru caches(i.e, pagevec) > during ongoing migration until migrate is done. > > Since it's really hard to reproduce, I measured how many times > migrate_pages retried with force mode(it is about a fallback to a > sync migration) with below debug code. > > int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page, > .. > .. > > if (rc && reason == MR_CONTIG_RANGE && pass > 2) { > printk(KERN_ERR, "pfn 0x%lx reason %d\n", page_to_pfn(page), > rc); > dump_page(page, "fail to migrate"); > } > > The test was repeating android apps launching with cma allocation > in background every five seconds. Total cma allocation count was > about 500 during the testing. With this patch, the dump_page count > was reduced from 400 to 30. > > The new interface is also useful for memory hotplug which currently > drains lru pcp caches after each migration failure. This is rather > suboptimal as it has to disrupt others running during the operation. > With the new interface the operation happens only once. This is also in > line with pcp allocator cache which are disabled for the offlining as > well. > > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> > ---
Hi Minchan,
This all looks good to me - feel free to add a Reviewed-by from me.
Thanks,
Chris.
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