android_kernel_motorola_sm6225/mm
Zlatko Calusic cda73a10eb mm: do not sleep in balance_pgdat if there's no i/o congestion
On a 4GB RAM machine, where Normal zone is much smaller than DMA32 zone,
the Normal zone gets fragmented in time.  This requires relatively more
pressure in balance_pgdat to get the zone above the required watermark.
Unfortunately, the congestion_wait() call in there slows it down for a
completely wrong reason, expecting that there's a lot of
writeback/swapout, even when there's none (much more common).  After a
few days, when fragmentation progresses, this flawed logic translates to
a very high CPU iowait times, even though there's no I/O congestion at
all.  If THP is enabled, the problem occurs sooner, but I was able to
see it even on !THP kernels, just by giving it a bit more time to occur.

The proper way to deal with this is to not wait, unless there's
congestion.  Thanks to Mel Gorman, we already have the function that
perfectly fits the job.  The patch was tested on a machine which nicely
revealed the problem after only 1 day of uptime, and it's been working
great.

Signed-off-by: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
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backing-dev.c Revert "bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads" 2012-12-17 11:29:09 -08:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused wrapper function reserve_bootmem_generic() 2012-12-12 17:38:35 -08:00
bounce.c bounce: allow use of bounce pool via config option 2012-07-18 16:40:35 -04:00
cleancache.c ->encode_fh() API change 2012-05-29 23:28:33 -04:00
compaction.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker 2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
fadvise.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
failslab.c
filemap.c readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection 2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
filemap_xip.c mm: move all mmu notifier invocations to be done outside the PT lock 2012-10-09 16:22:58 +09:00
fremap.c remap_file_pages: correctly handle the case of a NULL vm_ops pointer 2012-10-19 13:37:57 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capable 2012-09-21 10:38:12 -04:00
highmem.c mm, highmem: get virtual address of the page using PKMAP_ADDR() 2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: fix kernel BUG at huge_memory.c:1474! 2012-12-16 19:02:38 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig memory-hotplug: document and enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE 2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
ksm.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers 2012-10-09 16:22:18 +09:00
Makefile mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
memblock.c x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned 2012-10-24 11:52:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c slab: propagate tunable values 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
memory-failure.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
memory.c mm: use kbasename() 2012-12-17 17:15:17 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mempolicy.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
mempool.c mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node() 2012-06-25 11:53:47 +02:00
migrate.c mm,numa: fix update_mmu_cache_pmd call 2012-12-17 19:37:03 -08:00
mincore.c mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode 2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c mm, thp: fix mlock statistics 2012-10-09 16:23:03 +09:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat() 2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance 2012-10-25 14:37:53 -07:00
mmzone.c memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops 2012-11-16 14:33:04 -08:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone 2012-12-12 17:38:34 -08:00
nommu.c mm: export a function to get vm committed memory 2012-11-15 15:41:22 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler 2012-12-12 17:38:34 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove nr_pages_dirtied arg from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() 2012-12-11 17:22:21 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: allocate kernel pages to the right memcg 2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memcontrol: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY 2012-12-12 17:38:32 -08:00
page_io.c mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
page_isolation.c memory-hotplug: skip HWPoisoned page when offlining pages 2012-12-11 17:22:22 -08:00
pagewalk.c thp: change split_huge_page_pmd() interface 2012-12-12 17:38:31 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c mm: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument 2012-12-02 06:23:04 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte 2012-12-11 14:28:34 +00:00
process_vm_access.c aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
rmap.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
shmem.c lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence" 2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
slab.c memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
slab.h slab: propagate tunable values 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slab_common.c slab: propagate tunable values 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slob.c sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free() 2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
slub.c slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c memory-hotplug, mm/sparse.c: clear the memory to store struct page 2012-12-11 17:22:23 -08:00
swap.c mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable 2012-10-09 16:22:55 +09:00
swap_state.c mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages 2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swapfile.c mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin 2012-12-11 17:22:27 -08:00
truncate.c mm: use clear_page_mlock() in page_remove_rmap() 2012-10-09 16:22:56 +09:00
util.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2012-10-28 19:29:19 +01:00
vmalloc.c mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead of NUMA_BUILD 2012-12-11 17:22:22 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: do not sleep in balance_pgdat if there's no i/o congestion 2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
vmstat.c Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00