From patchwork Wed Jun 20 09:35:19 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 165935 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97B1B6FCB for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:37:56 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756025Ab2FTJfn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:35:43 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58710 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755940Ab2FTJfj (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:35:39 -0400 Received: from relay1.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6152FA4661; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:35:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , LKML , David Miller , Neil Brown , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Christie , Eric B Munson , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 16/17] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:35:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1340184920-22288-17-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.2 In-Reply-To: <1340184920-22288-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1340184920-22288-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Under significant pressure when writing back to network-backed storage, direct reclaimers may get throttled. This is expected to be a short-lived event and the processes get woken up again but processes do get stalled. This patch counts how many times such stalling occurs. It's up to the administrator whether to reduce these stalls by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h index 06f8e38..57f7b10 100644 --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSTEAL_DIRECT), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_KSWAPD), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_DIRECT), + PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE, #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED, #endif diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index bf8625c..bcc65c5 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2166,6 +2166,9 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) return; + /* Account for the throttling */ + count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE); + /* * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 1bbbbd9..df7a674 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgsteal_direct") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_kswapd") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_direct") + "pgscan_direct_throttle", #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA "zone_reclaim_failed",