Re: [PATCH 07/11] Memory compaction core

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:44:14PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:41 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by
> > relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone.
> > 
> > A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner.
> > Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone. The migration
> > scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable pages
> > within each area, isolating them onto a private list called migratelist.
> > The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches for suitable
> > areas and consumes the free pages within making them available for the
> > migration scanner. The pages isolated for migration are then migrated to
> > the newly isolated free pages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks

> There is below some nitpicks. Otherwise looks good to me. 
> 
> ..
> 
> < snip >
> 
> > +/* Update the number of anon and file isolated pages in the zone) */
>                                                 single parenthesis ^ 
> 

Fixed. If a V5 becomes necessary, the fix will be included.

> > +void update_zone_isolated(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
> > +{
> > +	struct page *page;
> > +	unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
> > +
> > +	list_for_each_entry(page, &cc->migratepages, lru) {
> > +		int lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
> > +		count[lru]++;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	cc->nr_anon = count[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON];
> > +	cc->nr_file = count[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + count[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE];
> > +	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON, cc->nr_anon);
> > +	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, cc->nr_file);
> > +}
> > +
> 
> < snip >
> 
> > +static unsigned long isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
> > +					struct compact_control *cc)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long low_pfn, end_pfn;
> > +	struct list_head *migratelist;
> > +
> > +	low_pfn = cc->migrate_pfn;
> > +	migratelist = &cc->migratepages;
> > +
> > +	/* Do not scan outside zone boundaries */
> > +	if (low_pfn < zone->zone_start_pfn)
> > +		low_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn;
> > +
> > +	/* Setup to scan one block but not past where we are migrating to */
> > +	end_pfn = ALIGN(low_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, pageblock_nr_pages);
> > +
> > +	/* Do not cross the free scanner or scan within a memory hole */
> > +	if (end_pfn > cc->free_pfn || !pfn_valid(low_pfn)) {
> > +		cc->migrate_pfn = end_pfn;
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	migrate_prep();
> > +
> > +	/* Time to isolate some pages for migration */
> > +	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> > +	for (; low_pfn < end_pfn; low_pfn++) {
> > +		struct page *page;
> > +		if (!pfn_valid_within(low_pfn))
> > +			continue;
> > +
> > +		/* Get the page and skip if free */
> > +		page = pfn_to_page(low_pfn);
> > +		if (PageBuddy(page)) {
> > +			low_pfn += (1 << page_order(page)) - 1;
> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		if (!PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page))
> > +			continue;
> 
> Do we need this checks?
> It is done by __isolate_lru_page. 
> 
> Explicit check would make code readability good.
> So if you mind it, I don't oppose it, either. 
> But other caller of __isolate_lru_pages don't check it, either.
> 

The checks are no longer necessary. They were made at a time I was calling
switch (__isolate_lru_page...) in a similar pattern to what happens
in mm/vmscan.c. In that pattern, -EINVAL is considered a bug so I was
deliberately skipped over these pages.

Thanks

> > +		/* Try isolate the page */
> > +		if (__isolate_lru_page(page, ISOLATE_BOTH, 0) == 0) {
> > +			del_page_from_lru_list(zone, page, page_lru(page));
> > +			list_add(&page->lru, migratelist);
> > +			mem_cgroup_del_lru(page);
> > +			cc->nr_migratepages++;
> > +		}
> > +
> > +		/* Avoid isolating too much */
> > +		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
> > +			break;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	update_zone_isolated(zone, cc);
> > +
> > +	spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> > +	cc->migrate_pfn = low_pfn;
> > +
> > +	return cc->nr_migratepages;
> > +}
> > +
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
> 
> 

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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