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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-10-26 14:21:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 16:52:07 -0700
commit0e093d99763eb4cea09f8ca4f1d01f34e121d10b (patch)
treefad38f9c3651c81db298521141a79d9468f71986 /mm/vmscan.c
parent08fc468f4eaf6683bae5bdb94743a09d8630cb80 (diff)
writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone
If congestion_wait() is called with no BDI congested, the caller will sleep for the full timeout and this may be an unnecessary sleep. This patch adds a wait_iff_congested() that checks congestion and only sleeps if a BDI is congested else, it calls cond_resched() to ensure the caller is not hogging the CPU longer than its quota but otherwise will not sleep. This is aimed at reducing some of the major desktop stalls reported during IO. For example, while kswapd is operating, it calls congestion_wait() but it could just have been reclaiming clean page cache pages with no congestion. Without this patch, it would sleep for a full timeout but after this patch, it'll just call schedule() if it has been on the CPU too long. Similar logic applies to direct reclaimers that are not making enough progress. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c42
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 130ad0239f5..30fd658bb28 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -401,10 +401,8 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
}
if (mapping->a_ops->writepage == NULL)
return PAGE_ACTIVATE;
- if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info, sc)) {
- disable_lumpy_reclaim_mode(sc);
+ if (!may_write_to_queue(mapping->backing_dev_info, sc))
return PAGE_KEEP;
- }
if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
int res;
@@ -681,11 +679,14 @@ static noinline_for_stack void free_page_list(struct list_head *free_pages)
* shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
*/
static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
+ struct zone *zone,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
int pgactivate = 0;
+ unsigned long nr_dirty = 0;
+ unsigned long nr_congested = 0;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
cond_resched();
@@ -705,6 +706,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
goto keep;
VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page));
+ VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page) != zone);
sc->nr_scanned++;
@@ -782,6 +784,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
}
if (PageDirty(page)) {
+ nr_dirty++;
+
if (references == PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN)
goto keep_locked;
if (!may_enter_fs)
@@ -792,6 +796,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
/* Page is dirty, try to write it out here */
switch (pageout(page, mapping, sc)) {
case PAGE_KEEP:
+ nr_congested++;
goto keep_locked;
case PAGE_ACTIVATE:
goto activate_locked;
@@ -902,6 +907,15 @@ keep_lumpy:
VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page));
}
+ /*
+ * Tag a zone as congested if all the dirty pages encountered were
+ * backed by a congested BDI. In this case, reclaimers should just
+ * back off and wait for congestion to clear because further reclaim
+ * will encounter the same problem
+ */
+ if (nr_dirty == nr_congested)
+ zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
+
free_page_list(&free_pages);
list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
@@ -1386,12 +1400,12 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
- nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc);
+ nr_reclaimed = shrink_page_list(&page_list, zone, sc);
/* Check if we should syncronously wait for writeback */
if (should_reclaim_stall(nr_taken, nr_reclaimed, priority, sc)) {
set_lumpy_reclaim_mode(priority, sc, true);
- nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc);
+ nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, zone, sc);
}
local_irq_disable();
@@ -1982,8 +1996,13 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
/* Take a nap, wait for some writeback to complete */
if (!sc->hibernation_mode && sc->nr_scanned &&
- priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
- congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
+ priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) {
+ struct zone *preferred_zone;
+
+ first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask),
+ NULL, &preferred_zone);
+ wait_iff_congested(preferred_zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
+ }
}
out:
@@ -2282,6 +2301,15 @@ loop_again:
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
min_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0))
has_under_min_watermark_zone = 1;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * If a zone reaches its high watermark,
+ * consider it to be no longer congested. It's
+ * possible there are dirty pages backed by
+ * congested BDIs but as pressure is relieved,
+ * spectulatively avoid congestion waits
+ */
+ zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
}
}