Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: High-order per-cpu page allocator v3

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 30-11-16 14:16:13, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > But...  Unless I am missing something this effectively means that we do
> > not exercise high order atomic reserves. Shouldn't we fallback to
> > the locked __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC) for
> > order > 0 && ALLOC_HARDER ? Or is this just hidden in some other code
> > path which I am not seeing?
> > 
> 
> Good spot, would this be acceptable to you?

It's not a queen of beauty but it works. A more elegant solution would
require more surgery I guess which is probably not worth it at this
stage.

> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 91dc68c2a717..94808f565f74 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2609,9 +2609,18 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
>  				int nr_pages = rmqueue_bulk(zone, order,
>  						pcp->batch, list,
>  						migratetype, cold);
> -				pcp->count += (nr_pages << order);
> -				if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
> +				if (unlikely(list_empty(list))) {
> +					/*
> +					 * Retry high-order atomic allocs
> +					 * from the buddy list which may
> +					 * use MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC.
> +					 */
> +					if (order && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER))
> +						goto try_buddylist;
> +
>  					goto failed;
> +				}
> +				pcp->count += (nr_pages << order);
>  			}
>  
>  			if (cold)
> @@ -2624,6 +2633,7 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
>  
>  		} while (check_new_pcp(page));
>  	} else {
> +try_buddylist:
>  		/*
>  		 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
>  		 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
> -- 
> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs
> 
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs