lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [May]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    Patch in this message
    /
    Date
    From
    Subject[PATCH -mm 11/12] more aggressively use lumpy reclaim
    From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

    During an AIM7 run on a 16GB system, fork started failing around
    32000 threads, despite the system having plenty of free swap and
    15GB of pageable memory.

    If normal pageout does not result in contiguous free pages for
    kernel stacks, fall back to lumpy reclaim instead of failing fork
    or doing excessive pageout IO.

    I do not know whether this change is needed due to the extreme
    stress test or because the inactive list is a smaller fraction
    of system memory on huge systems.

    Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

    ---
    mm/vmscan.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
    1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

    Index: linux-2.6.26-rc2-mm1/mm/vmscan.c
    ===================================================================
    --- linux-2.6.26-rc2-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2008-05-28 12:14:34.000000000 -0400
    +++ linux-2.6.26-rc2-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2008-05-28 12:14:43.000000000 -0400
    @@ -857,7 +857,8 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
    * of reclaimed pages
    */
    static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long max_scan,
    - struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, int file)
    + struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
    + int priority, int file)
    {
    LIST_HEAD(page_list);
    struct pagevec pvec;
    @@ -875,8 +876,19 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
    unsigned long nr_freed;
    unsigned long nr_active;
    unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
    - int mode = (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) ?
    - ISOLATE_BOTH : ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
    + int mode = ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
    +
    + /*
    + * If we need a large contiguous chunk of memory, or have
    + * trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages, we
    + * will reclaim both active and inactive pages.
    + *
    + * We use the same threshold as pageout congestion_wait below.
    + */
    + if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
    + mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;
    + else if (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
    + mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;

    nr_taken = sc->isolate_pages(sc->swap_cluster_max,
    &page_list, &nr_scan, sc->order, mode,
    @@ -1171,7 +1183,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lr
    shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
    return 0;
    }
    - return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, file);
    + return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
    }

    /*
    --
    All Rights Reversed



    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2008-05-29 22:27    [W:4.393 / U:0.368 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site