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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compaction.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 38 |
5 files changed, 42 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 003d5cc3751b..5e795202111f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the -background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. +background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately +trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction. Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h index c24098c7acca..34bce35c808d 100644 --- a/include/linux/compaction.h +++ b/include/linux/compaction.h @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ static inline unsigned long compact_gap(unsigned int order) extern unsigned int sysctl_compaction_proactiveness; extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos); +extern int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, + int write, void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos); extern int sysctl_extfrag_threshold; extern int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed; diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 59bad25ce78e..1bd5f5955f9a 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { enum zone_type kcompactd_highest_zoneidx; wait_queue_head_t kcompactd_wait; struct task_struct *kcompactd; + bool proactive_compact_trigger; #endif /* * This is a per-node reserve of pages that are not available diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 272f4a272f8c..297f0b3966bd 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -2871,7 +2871,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .data = &sysctl_compaction_proactiveness, .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_compaction_proactiveness), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, + .proc_handler = compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, .extra2 = &one_hundred, }, diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 4ee0d40d93f2..fa9b2b598eab 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -2706,6 +2706,30 @@ static void compact_nodes(void) */ unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_compaction_proactiveness = 20; +int compaction_proactiveness_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) +{ + int rc, nid; + + rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + if (rc) + return rc; + + if (write && sysctl_compaction_proactiveness) { + for_each_online_node(nid) { + pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); + + if (pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger) + continue; + + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = true; + wake_up_interruptible(&pgdat->kcompactd_wait); + } + } + + return 0; +} + /* * This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via * /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory @@ -2750,7 +2774,8 @@ void compaction_unregister_node(struct node *node) static inline bool kcompactd_work_requested(pg_data_t *pgdat) { - return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop(); + return pgdat->kcompactd_max_order > 0 || kthread_should_stop() || + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger; } static bool kcompactd_node_suitable(pg_data_t *pgdat) @@ -2901,9 +2926,16 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) while (!kthread_should_stop()) { unsigned long pflags; + /* + * Avoid the unnecessary wakeup for proactive compaction + * when it is disabled. + */ + if (!sysctl_compaction_proactiveness) + timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; trace_mm_compaction_kcompactd_sleep(pgdat->node_id); if (wait_event_freezable_timeout(pgdat->kcompactd_wait, - kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), timeout)) { + kcompactd_work_requested(pgdat), timeout) && + !pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger) { psi_memstall_enter(&pflags); kcompactd_do_work(pgdat); @@ -2938,6 +2970,8 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p) timeout = default_timeout << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT; } + if (unlikely(pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger)) + pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = false; } return 0; |