[PATCH 11/15] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilize watermarks
Marek Szyprowski
m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Fri Feb 3 07:18:54 EST 2012
alloc_contig_range() performs memory allocation so it also should keep
track on keeping the correct level of memory watermarks. This commit adds
a call to *_slowpath style reclaim to grab enough pages to make sure that
the final collection of contiguous pages from freelists will not starve
the system.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 983ccba..371a79f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5632,6 +5632,46 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
return ret > 0 ? 0 : ret;
}
+/*
+ * Trigger memory pressure bump to reclaim some pages in order to be able to
+ * allocate 'count' pages in single page units. Does similar work as
+ *__alloc_pages_slowpath() function.
+ */
+static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
+{
+ enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+ struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(0, gfp_mask);
+ int did_some_progress = 0;
+ int order = 1;
+ unsigned long watermark;
+
+ /*
+ * Increase level of watermarks to force kswapd do his job
+ * to stabilize at new watermark level.
+ */
+ min_free_kbytes += count * PAGE_SIZE / 1024;
+ setup_per_zone_wmarks();
+
+ /* Obey watermarks as if the page was being allocated */
+ watermark = low_wmark_pages(zone) + count;
+ while (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0)) {
+ wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, zone_idx(zone));
+
+ did_some_progress = __perform_reclaim(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
+ NULL);
+ if (!did_some_progress) {
+ /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
+ out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order, NULL);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Restore original watermark levels. */
+ min_free_kbytes -= count * PAGE_SIZE / 1024;
+ setup_per_zone_wmarks();
+
+ return count;
+}
+
/**
* alloc_contig_range() -- tries to allocate given range of pages
* @start: start PFN to allocate
@@ -5730,6 +5770,13 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
goto done;
}
+ /*
+ * Reclaim enough pages to make sure that contiguous allocation
+ * will not starve the system.
+ */
+ __reclaim_pages(zone, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, end-start);
+
+ /* Grab isolated pages from freelists. */
outer_end = isolate_freepages_range(outer_start, end);
if (!outer_end) {
ret = -EBUSY;
--
1.7.1.569.g6f426
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