cf66f0700c
Scanning on large machines can take a considerable length of time and
eventually need to be rescheduled. This is treated as an abort event
but that's not appropriate as the attempt is likely to be retried after
making numerous checks and taking another cycle through the page
allocator. This patch will check the need to reschedule if necessary
but continue the scanning.
The main benefit is reduced scanning when compaction is taking a long
time or the machine is over-saturated. It also avoids an unnecessary
exit of compaction that ends up being retried by the page allocator in
the outer loop.
5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1
synccached-v3r16 noresched-v3r17
Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%*
Amean fault-both-3 2958.27 ( 0.00%) 2965.68 ( -0.25%)
Amean fault-both-5 4091.90 ( 0.00%) 3995.90 ( 2.35%)
Amean fault-both-7 5803.05 ( 0.00%) 5842.12 ( -0.67%)
Amean fault-both-12 9481.06 ( 0.00%) 9550.87 ( -0.74%)
Amean fault-both-18 14141.51 ( 0.00%) 13304.72 ( 5.92%)
Amean fault-both-24 16438.00 ( 0.00%) 14618.59 ( 11.07%)
Amean fault-both-30 17531.72 ( 0.00%) 16650.96 ( 5.02%)
Amean fault-both-32 17101.96 ( 0.00%) 17145.15 ( -0.25%)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-18-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.