Re: [PATCH 06/14] mm, migrate: Immediately fail migration of a page with no migration handler

[Yang Shi]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 3:03 PM Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pages with no migration handler use a fallback hander which sometimes
> works and sometimes persistently fails such as blockdev pages. Migration

A minor correction. The above statement sounds not accurate anymore
since Jan Kara had patch series (blkdev: avoid migration stalls for
blkdev pages) have blockdev use its own migration handler.

Thanks,
Yang

> will retry a number of times on these persistent pages which is wasteful
> during compaction. This patch will fail migration immediately unless the
> caller is in MIGRATE_SYNC mode which indicates the caller is willing to
> wait while being persistent.
>
> This is not expected to help THP allocation success rates but it does
> reduce latencies slightly.
>
> 1-socket thpfioscale
>                                     4.20.0-rc6             4.20.0-rc6
>                                noreserved-v1r4          failfast-v1r4
> Amean     fault-both-1         0.00 (   0.00%)        0.00 *   0.00%*
> Amean     fault-both-3      2276.15 (   0.00%)     3867.54 * -69.92%*
> Amean     fault-both-5      4992.20 (   0.00%)     5313.20 (  -6.43%)
> Amean     fault-both-7      7373.30 (   0.00%)     7039.11 (   4.53%)
> Amean     fault-both-12    11911.52 (   0.00%)    11328.29 (   4.90%)
> Amean     fault-both-18    17209.42 (   0.00%)    16455.34 (   4.38%)
> Amean     fault-both-24    20943.71 (   0.00%)    20448.94 (   2.36%)
> Amean     fault-both-30    22703.00 (   0.00%)    21655.07 (   4.62%)
> Amean     fault-both-32    22461.41 (   0.00%)    21415.35 (   4.66%)
>
> The 2-socket results are not materially different. Scan rates are
> similar as expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index df17a710e2c7..0e27a10429e2 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static int fallback_migrate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
>          */
>         if (page_has_private(page) &&
>             !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL))
> -               return -EAGAIN;
> +               return mode == MIGRATE_SYNC ? -EAGAIN : -EBUSY;
>
>         return migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
>  }
> --
> 2.16.4
>