From patchwork Tue Oct 19 09:01:05 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mel Gorman X-Patchwork-Id: 12569167 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 DAF07C433F5 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C663C6115A for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234956AbhJSJE1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:04:27 -0400 Received: from outbound-smtp19.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.246]:39945 "EHLO outbound-smtp19.blacknight.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234962AbhJSJEY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:04:24 -0400 Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp19.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BC9D1C60E2 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:02:10 +0100 (IST) Received: (qmail 8615 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2021 09:02:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stampy.112glenside.lan) (mgorman@techsingularity.net@[84.203.17.29]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPA; 19 Oct 2021 09:02:09 -0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton 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-MM , Linux-fsdevel , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:01:05 +0100 Message-Id: <20211019090108.25501-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20211019090108.25501-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> References: <20211019090108.25501-1-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