Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Do not isolate redundant pageblock

From: Muchun Song
Date: Fri Nov 27 2020 - 10:44:16 EST


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:17 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 11/27/20 3:19 PM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > Current pageblock isolation logic could isolate each pageblock individually
> > since commit d9dddbf55667 ("mm/page_alloc: prevent merging between isolated
> > and other pageblocks"). So we not need to concern about page allocator
> > merges buddies from different pageblocks and changes MIGRATE_ISOLATE to
> > some other migration type.
>
> Yeah, that should be the case now.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 26 ++++++++------------------
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index cefbef32bf4a..608a2c2b8ab7 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -8313,16 +8313,14 @@ struct page *has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
> > }
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC
> > -static unsigned long pfn_max_align_down(unsigned long pfn)
> > +static unsigned long pfn_align_down(unsigned long pfn)
> > {
> > - return pfn & ~(max_t(unsigned long, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES,
> > - pageblock_nr_pages) - 1);
> > + return pfn & ~(pageblock_nr_pages - 1);
> > }
> >
> > -static unsigned long pfn_max_align_up(unsigned long pfn)
> > +static unsigned long pfn_align_up(unsigned long pfn)
> > {
> > - return ALIGN(pfn, max_t(unsigned long, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES,
> > - pageblock_nr_pages));
> > + return ALIGN(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages);
> > }
>
> How bout just removing these wrappers completely and using ALIGN and ALIGN_DOWN
> directly, as there are just two uses for each?

Sounds good to me. Will do.

>
> > /* [start, end) must belong to a single zone. */
> > @@ -8415,14 +8413,6 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cc.migratepages);
> >
> > /*
> > - * What we do here is we mark all pageblocks in range as
> > - * MIGRATE_ISOLATE. Because pageblock and max order pages may
> > - * have different sizes, and due to the way page allocator
> > - * work, we align the range to biggest of the two pages so
> > - * that page allocator won't try to merge buddies from
> > - * different pageblocks and change MIGRATE_ISOLATE to some
> > - * other migration type.
> > - *
> > * Once the pageblocks are marked as MIGRATE_ISOLATE, we
> > * migrate the pages from an unaligned range (ie. pages that
> > * we are interested in). This will put all the pages in
> > @@ -8438,8 +8428,8 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> > * put back to page allocator so that buddy can use them.
> > */
> >
> > - ret = start_isolate_page_range(pfn_max_align_down(start),
> > - pfn_max_align_up(end), migratetype, 0);
> > + ret = start_isolate_page_range(pfn_align_down(start), pfn_align_up(end),
> > + migratetype, 0);
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> >
> > @@ -8522,8 +8512,8 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> > free_contig_range(end, outer_end - end);
> >
> > done:
> > - undo_isolate_page_range(pfn_max_align_down(start),
> > - pfn_max_align_up(end), migratetype);
> > + undo_isolate_page_range(pfn_align_down(start), pfn_align_up(end),
> > + migratetype);
> > return ret;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_contig_range);
> >
>


--
Yours,
Muchun