Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm, compaction: disginguish contended status in tracepoint

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 09/07/2015 07:53 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:24:04PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Compaction returns prematurely with COMPACT_PARTIAL when contended or has fatal
>> signal pending. This is ok for the callers, but might be misleading in the
>> traces, as the usual reason to return COMPACT_PARTIAL is that we think the
>> allocation should succeed. This patch distinguishes the premature ending
>> condition. Further distinguishing the exact reason seems unnecessary for now.
> 
> isolate_migratepages() could return ISOLATE_ABORT and skip to call
> compact_finished(). trace_mm_compaction_end() will print
> COMPACT_PARTIAL in this case and we cannot distinguish premature
> ending condition. Is it okay?

Thanks, that could be indeed misleading. It will affect
trace_mm_compaction_end() which also prints COMPACT_PARTIAL for
COMPACT_CONTENDED case as it's already changed in compact_finished(). And
there's no compaction_finished trace event to clarify. Some cases for abort can
be inferred from trace_mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages, but not all.

Maybe I could move the post-filtering for COMPACT_CONTENDED, now done in
compact_finished() to the end of compact_zone()? That would both enhance also
trace_mm_compaction_end() and allow setting proper "ret" value for the
ISOLATE_ABORT case. The abort only happens for sched contention or
too_many_isolated(), which is basically another form of contention...

> Thanks.
> 

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