Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: vmscan: Scale number of pages reclaimed byreclaim/compaction based on failures

[Minchan Kim]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:55:26AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:48:24AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Hi Mel,
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity.
> > What's the problem did you see? (ie, What's the problem do this patch solve?)
> 
> Everythign in this series is related to the problem in the leader - high
> order allocation success rates are lower. This patch increases the success
> rates when allocating under load.
> 
> > AFAIUC, it seem to solve consecutive allocation success ratio through
> > getting several free pageblocks all at once in a process/kswapd
> > reclaim context. Right?
> 
> Only pageblocks if it is order-9 on x86, it reclaims an amount that depends
> on an allocation size. This only happens during reclaim/compaction context
> when we know that a high-order allocation has recently failed. The objective
> is to reclaim enough order-0 pages so that compaction can succeed again.

Your patch increases the number of pages to be reclaimed with considering
the number of fail case during deferring period and your test proved it's
really good. Without your patch, why can't VM reclaim enough pages?
Other processes steal the pages reclaimed?
Why I ask a question is that I want to know what's the problem at current
VM.


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> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs
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Minchan Kim
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