From 806031bb5ec36ed879d64249d5a5cf9c6657f89d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:44:43 -0800 Subject: mm, migrate: immediately fail migration of a page with no migration handler Pages with no migration handler use a fallback handler which sometimes works and sometimes persistently retries. A historical example was blockdev pages but there are others such as odd refcounting when page->private is used. These are retried multiple times which is wasteful during compaction so this patch will fail migration faster unless the caller specifies MIGRATE_SYNC. This is not expected to help THP allocation success rates but it did reduce latencies very slightly in some cases. 1-socket thpfioscale 4.20.0 4.20.0 noreserved-v2r15 failfast-v2r15 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 3839.67 ( 0.00%) 3833.72 ( 0.15%) Amean fault-both-5 5177.47 ( 0.00%) 4967.15 ( 4.06%) Amean fault-both-7 7245.03 ( 0.00%) 7139.19 ( 1.46%) Amean fault-both-12 11534.89 ( 0.00%) 11326.30 ( 1.81%) Amean fault-both-18 16241.10 ( 0.00%) 16270.70 ( -0.18%) Amean fault-both-24 19075.91 ( 0.00%) 19839.65 ( -4.00%) Amean fault-both-30 22712.11 ( 0.00%) 21707.05 ( 4.43%) Amean fault-both-32 21692.92 ( 0.00%) 21968.16 ( -1.27%) The 2-socket results are not materially different. Scan rates are similar as expected. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: YueHaibing Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 0413596fc523..0e9888cb33ad 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151