My driver allocates more than 30MB pages via alloc_page() at a time and
maps them at virtual address. Totally it uses 300~400MB pages.
If I run a heavy load test for a day, I cannot allocate even order=3 pages
because-of the external fragmentation.
I thought I needed a anti-fragmentation solution for my driver.
So I looked into the compaction code but there is no allocation function.
This patch gets a buddy and a pageblock in which the buddy exists.
And it allocates free pages in the pageblock.
So I guess it can allocate pages with less fragmentation.
I've tested this patch for 48-hours and not found problem.
I didn't check the amount of the external fragmentation yet
because it will take several days. I'll start it ASAP.
I just wonder that anybody has tried the page allocation like this.
Am I going in right direction?
I'll report a result after long-time test.
This patch is based on 3.16.
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh....@lge.com>
---
mm/compaction.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 171 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 21bf292..7775bc6 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <linux/balloon_compaction.h>
#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
+#include <linux/cpuset.h>
#include "internal.h"
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
@@ -1289,3 +1290,61 @@ void compaction_unregister_node(struct node *node)
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS && CONFIG_NUMA */
#endif /* CONFIG_COMPACTION */
+
+unsigned long isolate_unmovable_freepages_block(unsigned long blockpfn,
+ unsigned long end_pfn,
+ int count,
+ struct list_head *freelist)
+{
+ int total_isolated = 0;
+ struct page *cursor, *valid_page = NULL;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ bool locked = false;
+
+ cursor = pfn_to_page(blockpfn);
+
+ /* Isolate free pages in a pageblock. */
+ for (; blockpfn < end_pfn; blockpfn++, cursor++) {
+ int isolated, i;
+ struct page *page = cursor;
+
+ if (!pfn_valid_within(blockpfn))
+ continue;
+ if (!valid_page)
+ valid_page = page;
+ if (!PageBuddy(page))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Recheck this is a buddy page under lock */
+ if (!PageBuddy(page))
+ continue;
+
+ /* DO NOT TOUCH CONTIGOUS PAGES */
+ if (page_order(page) >= pageblock_order/2) {
+ blockpfn += (1 << page_order(page)) - 1;
+ cursor += (1 << page_order(page)) - 1;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ /* Found a free page, break it into order-0 pages */
+ isolated = split_free_page(page);
+
+ total_isolated += isolated;
+ for (i = 0; i < isolated; i++) {
+ list_add(&page->lru, freelist);
+ page++;
+ }
+
+ if (total_isolated >= count)
+ break;
+
+ /* If a page was split, advance to the end of it */
+ if (isolated) {
+ blockpfn += isolated - 1;
+ cursor += isolated - 1;
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return total_isolated;
+}
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 86c9a72..c782191 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6646,3 +6646,115 @@ void dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
dump_page_badflags(page, reason, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_page);
+
+unsigned long isolate_unmovable_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
+ unsigned long blockpfn,
+ unsigned long end_pfn,
+ int count,
+ struct list_head *freelist);
+
+int rmqueue_compact(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
+ int migratetype, struct list_head *freepages)
+{
+ unsigned int current_order;
+ struct free_area *area;
+ struct page *page;
+ unsigned long block_start_pfn; /* start of current pageblock */
+ unsigned long block_end_pfn; /* end of current pageblock */
+ int total_isolated = 0;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ struct page *next;
+ int remain = 0;
+ int request = 1 << order;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+
+ current_order = 0;
+ page = NULL;
+ while (current_order <= pageblock_order) {
+ int isolated;
+
+ area = &(zone->free_area[current_order]);
+
+ if (list_empty(&area->free_list[migratetype])) {
+ current_order++;
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ page = list_entry(area->free_list[migratetype].next,
+ struct page, lru);
+
+ /* check migratetype of pageblock again,
+ some pages can be set as different migratetype
+ by rmqueue_fallback */
+ if (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) != migratetype)
+ continue;
+
+ block_start_pfn = page_to_pfn(page) & ~(pageblock_nr_pages - 1);
+ block_end_pfn = min(block_start_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages,
+ zone_end_pfn(zone));
+
+ isolated = isolate_unmovable_freepages_block(NULL,
+ block_start_pfn,
+ block_end_pfn,
+ request,
+ freepages);
+
+ total_isolated += isolated;
+ request -= isolated;
+
+ /* A buddy block is found but it is too big
+ or the buddy block has no valid page.
+ Anyway something wrong happened.
+ Try next order.
+ */
+ if (isolated == 0)
+ current_order++;
+
+ if (request <= 0)
+ break;
+ }
+ __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, -total_isolated);
+ __count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, total_isolated);
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, freepages, lru) {
+ if (remain >= (1 << order)) {
+ list_del(&page->lru);
+ /* do not free pages into hot-cold list,
+ but buddy list */
+ atomic_dec(&page->_count);
+ __free_pages_ok(page, 0);
+ }
+ remain++;
+ }
+
+ list_for_each_entry(page, freepages, lru) {
+ arch_alloc_page(page, 0);
+ kernel_map_pages(page, 1, 1);
+ }
+
+ return total_isolated < (1 << order) ? total_isolated : (1 << order);
+}
+
+int alloc_pages_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
+ struct list_head *freepages)
+{
+ enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+ struct zone *preferred_zone;
+ struct zoneref *preferred_zoneref;
+
+
+ preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(node_zonelist(numa_node_id(),
+ gfp_mask),
+ high_zoneidx,
+ &cpuset_current_mems_allowed,
+ &preferred_zone);
+ if (!preferred_zone)
+ return 0;
+
+ return rmqueue_compact(preferred_zone, order,
+ allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask), freepages);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_compact);
--
1.7.9.5
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