[PATCH v5] mm/page_alloc: fix min_free_kbytes calculation regarding ZONE_MOVABLE

From: liuq
Date: Sat Jun 24 2023 - 23:17:56 EST


The current calculation of min_free_kbytes only uses ZONE_DMA and
ZONE_NORMAL pages,but the ZONE_MOVABLE zone->_watermark[WMARK_MIN]
will also divide part of min_free_kbytes.This will cause the min
watermark of ZONE_NORMAL to be too small in the presence of ZONE_MOVEABLE.

__GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't need movable
zone pages, so just like ZONE_HIGHMEM, cap pages_min to a small
value in __setup_per_zone_wmarks().

On my testing machine with 16GB of memory (transparent hugepage is
turned off by default, and movablecore=12G is configured)
The following is a comparative test data of watermark_min

no patch add patch
ZONE_DMA 1 8
ZONE_DMA32 151 709
ZONE_NORMAL 233 1113
ZONE_MOVABLE 1434 128
min_free_kbytes 7288 7326

Signed-off-by: liuq <liuq131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 47421bedc12b..590ed8725e09 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6362,9 +6362,9 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
struct zone *zone;
unsigned long flags;

- /* Calculate total number of !ZONE_HIGHMEM pages */
+ /* Calculate total number of !ZONE_HIGHMEM and !ZONE_MOVABLE pages */
for_each_zone(zone) {
- if (!is_highmem(zone))
+ if (!is_highmem(zone) && zone_idx(zone) != ZONE_MOVABLE)
lowmem_pages += zone_managed_pages(zone);
}

@@ -6374,15 +6374,15 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone_managed_pages(zone);
do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages);
- if (is_highmem(zone)) {
+ if (is_highmem(zone) || zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE) {
/*
* __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't
- * need highmem pages, so cap pages_min to a small
- * value here.
+ * need highmem and movable zones pages, so cap pages_min
+ * to a small value here.
*
* The WMARK_HIGH-WMARK_LOW and (WMARK_LOW-WMARK_MIN)
* deltas control async page reclaim, and so should
- * not be capped for highmem.
+ * not be capped for highmem and movable zones.
*/
unsigned long min_pages;

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