Fix: mm_compaction_migratepages changed in linux 6.9-rc1
See upstream commit:
commit
ab755bf4249b992fc2140d615ab0a686d50765b4
Author: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Tue Feb 20 14:16:31 2024 +0800
mm: compaction: update the cc->nr_migratepages when allocating or freeing the freepages
Currently we will use 'cc->nr_freepages >= cc->nr_migratepages' comparison
to ensure that enough freepages are isolated in isolate_freepages(),
however it just decreases the cc->nr_freepages without updating
cc->nr_migratepages in compaction_alloc(), which will waste more CPU
cycles and cause too many freepages to be isolated.
So we should also update the cc->nr_migratepages when allocating or
freeing the freepages to avoid isolating excess freepages. And I can see
fewer free pages are scanned and isolated when running thpcompact on my
Arm64 server:
k6.7 k6.7_patched
Ops Compaction pages isolated
120692036.00
118160797.00
Ops Compaction migrate scanned
131210329.00
154093268.00
Ops Compaction free scanned
1090587971.00
1080632536.00
Ops Compact scan efficiency 12.03 14.26
Moreover, I did not see an obvious latency improvements, this is likely
because isolating freepages is not the bottleneck in the thpcompact test
case.
k6.7 k6.7_patched
Amean fault-both-1 1089.76 ( 0.00%) 1080.16 * 0.88%*
Amean fault-both-3 1616.48 ( 0.00%) 1636.65 * -1.25%*
Amean fault-both-5 2266.66 ( 0.00%) 2219.20 * 2.09%*
Amean fault-both-7 2909.84 ( 0.00%) 2801.90 * 3.71%*
Amean fault-both-12 4861.26 ( 0.00%) 4733.25 * 2.63%*
Amean fault-both-18 7351.11 ( 0.00%) 6950.51 * 5.45%*
Amean fault-both-24 9059.30 ( 0.00%) 9159.99 * -1.11%*
Amean fault-both-30 10685.68 ( 0.00%) 11399.02 * -6.68%*
Change-Id: I103a43fd1b549360b3fc978fd409b7c17ef3e192
Signed-off-by: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>