compaction_alloc() isolates pages for migration in isolate_migratepages.
While it's scanning, IRQs are disabled on the mistaken assumption the
scanning should be short. Tests show this to be true for the most part
but contention times on the LRU lock can be increased. Before this patch,
the IRQ disabled times for a simple test looked like
Total sampled time IRQs off (not real total time): 5493
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 1596 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 1530 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 956 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 541 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 531 us count 1
Event split_huge_page..add_to_swap 232 us count 1
Event save_args..call_softirq 36 us count 1
Event save_args..call_softirq 35 us count 2
Event __wake_up..__wake_up 1 us count 1
This patch reduces the worst-case IRQs-disabled latencies by releasing the
lock every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages that are scanned and releasing the CPU if
necessary. The cost of this is that the processing performing compaction will
be slower but IRQs being disabled for too long a time has worse consequences
as the following report shows;
Total sampled time IRQs off (not real total time): 4367
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 881 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 875 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 868 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 555 us count 1
Event split_huge_page..add_to_swap 495 us count 1
Event compact_zone..compact_zone_order 269 us count 1
Event split_huge_page..add_to_swap 266 us count 1
Event shrink_inactive_list..shrink_zone 85 us count 1
Event save_args..call_softirq 36 us count 2
Event __wake_up..__wake_up 1 us count 1
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify with s/unlocked/locked/]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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