Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/compaction: skip useless pfn when updating cached pfn

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Aug 24 2015 - 05:07:46 EST


On 08/24/2015 04:19 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
Cached pfn is used to determine the start position of scanner
at next compaction run. Current cached pfn points the skipped pageblock
so we uselessly checks whether pageblock is valid for compaction and
skip-bit is set or not. If we set scanner's cached pfn to next pfn of
skipped pageblock, we don't need to do this check.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 6ef2fdf..c2d3d6a 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -261,10 +261,9 @@ void reset_isolation_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat)
*/
static void update_pageblock_skip(struct compact_control *cc,
struct page *page, unsigned long nr_isolated,
- bool migrate_scanner)
+ unsigned long pfn, bool migrate_scanner)
{
struct zone *zone = cc->zone;
- unsigned long pfn;

if (cc->ignore_skip_hint)
return;
@@ -277,8 +276,6 @@ static void update_pageblock_skip(struct compact_control *cc,

set_pageblock_skip(page);

- pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
-
/* Update where async and sync compaction should restart */
if (migrate_scanner) {
if (pfn > zone->compact_cached_migrate_pfn[0])
@@ -300,7 +297,7 @@ static inline bool isolation_suitable(struct compact_control *cc,

static void update_pageblock_skip(struct compact_control *cc,
struct page *page, unsigned long nr_isolated,
- bool migrate_scanner)
+ unsigned long pfn, bool migrate_scanner)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
@@ -509,7 +506,8 @@ isolate_fail:

/* Update the pageblock-skip if the whole pageblock was scanned */
if (blockpfn == end_pfn)
- update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, total_isolated, false);
+ update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, total_isolated,
+ end_pfn, false);

In isolate_freepages_block() this means we actually go logically *back* one pageblock, as the direction is opposite? I know it's not an issue after the redesign patch so you wouldn't notice it when testing the whole series. But there's a non-zero chance that the smaller fixes are merged first and the redesign later...


count_compact_events(COMPACTFREE_SCANNED, nr_scanned);
if (total_isolated)
@@ -811,7 +809,8 @@ isolate_success:
* if the whole pageblock was scanned without isolating any page.
*/
if (low_pfn == end_pfn)
- update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, nr_isolated, true);
+ update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, nr_isolated,
+ end_pfn, true);

trace_mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages(start_pfn, low_pfn,
nr_scanned, nr_isolated);


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