[RFC PATCH v12 based on mm-unstable as of Feb 21, 2025 18/25] mm/page_alloc: retry 3 times to take pcp pages on luf check failure

From: Byungchul Park
Date: Wed Feb 26 2025 - 07:04:53 EST


Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@xxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7b023b34d53da..f35ae2550019f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3384,6 +3384,12 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
{
struct page *page;

+ /*
+ * give up taking page from pcp if it fails to take pcp page
+ * 3 times due to the tlb shootdownable issue.
+ */
+ int try_luf_pages = 3;
+
do {
if (list_empty(list)) {
int batch = nr_pcp_alloc(pcp, zone, order);
@@ -3398,11 +3404,21 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
return NULL;
}

- page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, pcp_list);
- if (!luf_takeoff_check_and_fold(page))
+ list_for_each_entry(page, list, pcp_list) {
+ if (luf_takeoff_check_and_fold(page)) {
+ list_del(&page->pcp_list);
+ pcp->count -= 1 << order;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!--try_luf_pages)
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If all the pages in the list fails...
+ */
+ if (list_entry_is_head(page, list, pcp_list))
return NULL;
- list_del(&page->pcp_list);
- pcp->count -= 1 << order;
} while (check_new_pages(page, order));

return page;
--
2.17.1