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mm/thp: don't count ZONE_MOVABLE as the target for freepage reserving

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There was a regression report for "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA
area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE" [1] and I think that it is related to
this problem.  CMA patchset makes the system use one more zone
(ZONE_MOVABLE) and then increases min_free_kbytes.  It reduces usable
memory and it could cause regression.

ZONE_MOVABLE only has movable pages so we don't need to keep enough
freepages to avoid or deal with fragmentation.  So, don't count it.

This changes min_free_kbytes and thus min_watermark greatly if
ZONE_MOVABLE is used.  It will make the user uses more memory.

System:
  22GB ram, fakenuma, 2 nodes. 5 zones are used.

Before:
  min_free_kbytes: 112640

  zone_info (min_watermark):
  Node 0, zone      DMA
          min      19
  Node 0, zone    DMA32
          min      3778
  Node 0, zone   Normal
          min      10191
  Node 0, zone  Movable
          min      0
  Node 0, zone   Device
          min      0
  Node 1, zone      DMA
          min      0
  Node 1, zone    DMA32
          min      0
  Node 1, zone   Normal
          min      14043
  Node 1, zone  Movable
          min      127
  Node 1, zone   Device
          min      0

After:
  min_free_kbytes: 90112

  zone_info (min_watermark):
  Node 0, zone      DMA
          min      15
  Node 0, zone    DMA32
          min      3022
  Node 0, zone   Normal
          min      8152
  Node 0, zone  Movable
          min      0
  Node 0, zone   Device
          min      0
  Node 1, zone      DMA
          min      0
  Node 1, zone    DMA32
          min      0
  Node 1, zone   Normal
          min      11234
  Node 1, zone  Movable
          min      102
  Node 1, zone   Device
          min      0

[1] (lkml.kernel.org/r/20180102063528.GG30397%20()%20yexl-desktop)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522913236-15776-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim
2018-04-10 16:30:27 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3d2054ad8c
commit b7d349c741
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@@ -1879,8 +1879,16 @@ static void set_recommended_min_free_kbytes(void)
int nr_zones = 0;
unsigned long recommended_min;
for_each_populated_zone(zone)
for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
/*
* We don't need to worry about fragmentation of
* ZONE_MOVABLE since it only has movable pages.
*/
if (zone_idx(zone) > gfp_zone(GFP_USER))
continue;
nr_zones++;
}
/* Ensure 2 pageblocks are free to assist fragmentation avoidance */
recommended_min = pageblock_nr_pages * nr_zones * 2;