[PATCH 8/8] mm/vmscan: Delay waking of tasks throttled on NOPROGRESS

[Mel Gorman]

Tracing indicates that tasks throttled on NOPROGRESS are woken
prematurely resulting in occasional massive spikes in direct
reclaim activity. This patch wakes tasks throttled on NOPROGRESS
if reclaim efficiency is at least 12%.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ec2006680242..28adc196353d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason)
 	ret = schedule_timeout(timeout);
 	finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
 
-	if (reason == VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED)
+	if (reason == VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK)
 		atomic_dec(&pgdat->nr_writeback_throttled);
 
 	trace_mm_vmscan_throttled(pgdat->node_id, jiffies_to_usecs(timeout),
@@ -3349,8 +3349,11 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 
 static void consider_reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
-	/* If reclaim is making progress, wake any throttled tasks. */
-	if (sc->nr_reclaimed) {
+	/*
+	 * If reclaim is making progress greater than 12% efficiency then
+	 * wake all the NOPROGRESS throttled tasks.
+	 */
+	if (sc->nr_reclaimed > (sc->nr_scanned >> 3)) {
 		wait_queue_head_t *wqh;
 
 		wqh = &pgdat->reclaim_wait[VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS];
-- 
2.31.1