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![]() During allocator-intensive workloads, kswapd will be woken frequently causing free memory to oscillate between the high and min watermark. This is expected behaviour. Unfortunately, if the highest zone is small, a problem occurs. This seems to happen most with recent sandybridge laptops but it's probably a co-incidence as some of these laptops just happen to have a small Normal zone. The reproduction case is almost always during copying large files that kswapd pegs at 100% CPU until the file is deleted or cache is dropped. The problem is mostly down to sleeping_prematurely() keeping kswapd awake when the highest zone is small and unreclaimable and compounded by the fact we shrink slabs even when not shrinking zones causing a lot of time to be spent in shrinkers and a lot of memory to be reclaimed. Patch 1 corrects sleeping_prematurely to check the zones matching the classzone_idx instead of all zones. Patch 2 avoids shrinking slab when we are not shrinking a zone. Patch 3 notes that sleeping_prematurely is checking lower zones against a high classzone which is not what allocators or balance_pgdat() is doing leading to an artifical belief that kswapd should be still awake. Patch 4 notes that when balance_pgdat() gives up on a high zone that the decision is not communicated to sleeping_prematurely() This problem affects 2.6.38.8 for certain and is expected to affect 2.6.39 and 3.0-rc4 as well. If accepted, they need to go to -stable to be picked up by distros and this series is against 3.0-rc4. I've cc'd people that reported similar problems recently to see if they still suffer from the problem and if this fixes it. This patch: correct the check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely() During allocator-intensive workloads, kswapd will be woken frequently causing free memory to oscillate between the high and min watermark. This is expected behaviour. A problem occurs if the highest zone is small. balance_pgdat() only considers unreclaimable zones when priority is DEF_PRIORITY but sleeping_prematurely considers all zones. It's possible for this sequence to occur 1. kswapd wakes up and enters balance_pgdat() 2. At DEF_PRIORITY, marks highest zone unreclaimable 3. At DEF_PRIORITY-1, ignores highest zone setting end_zone 4. At DEF_PRIORITY-1, calls shrink_slab freeing memory from highest zone, clearing all_unreclaimable. Highest zone is still unbalanced 5. kswapd returns and calls sleeping_prematurely 6. sleeping_prematurely looks at *all* zones, not just the ones being considered by balance_pgdat. The highest small zone has all_unreclaimable cleared but the zone is not balanced. all_zones_ok is false so kswapd stays awake This patch corrects the behaviour of sleeping_prematurely to check the zones balance_pgdat() checked. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reported-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Tested-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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backing-dev.c | ||
bootmem.c | ||
bounce.c | ||
cleancache.c | ||
compaction.c | ||
debug-pagealloc.c | ||
dmapool.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
failslab.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
filemap_xip.c | ||
fremap.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
huge_memory.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
hwpoison-inject.c | ||
init-mm.c | ||
internal.h | ||
Kconfig | ||
Kconfig.debug | ||
kmemcheck.c | ||
kmemleak-test.c | ||
kmemleak.c | ||
ksm.c | ||
maccess.c | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
memblock.c | ||
memcontrol.c | ||
memory-failure.c | ||
memory.c | ||
memory_hotplug.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
migrate.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mm_init.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mmu_context.c | ||
mmu_notifier.c | ||
mmzone.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nobootmem.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_cgroup.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
page_isolation.c | ||
pagewalk.c | ||
percpu-km.c | ||
percpu-vm.c | ||
percpu.c | ||
pgtable-generic.c | ||
prio_tree.c | ||
quicklist.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
slab.c | ||
slob.c | ||
slub.c | ||
sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
sparse.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
thrash.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
util.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmscan.c | ||
vmstat.c |