From patchwork Fri Oct 8 13:53:29 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 12545431 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3385BC433F5 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149C861042 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233719AbhJHN4c (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:56:32 -0400 Received: from outbound-smtp13.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.230]:54357 "EHLO outbound-smtp13.blacknight.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242239AbhJHN4a (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:56:30 -0400 Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp13.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46CC71C3E97 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2021 14:54:34 +0100 (IST) Received: (qmail 7212 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2021 13:54:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stampy.112glenside.lan) (mgorman@techsingularity.net@[84.203.17.29]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPA; 8 Oct 2021 13:54:33 -0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Linux-MM Cc: NeilBrown , Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , "Darrick J . Wong" , Matthew Wilcox , Michal Hocko , Dave Chinner , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Johannes Weiner , Jonathan Corbet , Linux-fsdevel , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 14:53:29 +0100 Message-Id: <20211008135332.19567-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20211008135332.19567-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> References: <20211008135332.19567-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are waiting for writeback to start but this should now be redundant. shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active. If it fails to make progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly then it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/page_alloc.c | 21 +-------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 78e538067651..8fa0109ff417 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4795,30 +4795,11 @@ should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order, trace_reclaim_retry_zone(z, order, reclaimable, available, min_wmark, *no_progress_loops, wmark); if (wmark) { - /* - * If we didn't make any progress and have a lot of - * dirty + writeback pages then we should wait for - * an IO to complete to slow down the reclaim and - * prevent from pre mature OOM - */ - if (!did_some_progress) { - unsigned long write_pending; - - write_pending = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, - NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING); - - if (2 * write_pending > reclaimable) { - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); - return true; - } - } - ret = true; - goto out; + break; } } -out: /* * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ context and the * current implementation of the WQ concurrency control doesn't