mm, thp: tweak reclaim/compaction effort of local-only and all-node allocations

THP page faults now attempt a __GFP_THISNODE allocation first, which
should only compact existing free memory, followed by another attempt
that can allocate from any node using reclaim/compaction effort
specified by global defrag setting and madvise.

This patch makes the following changes to the scheme:

 - Before the patch, the first allocation relies on a check for
   pageblock order and __GFP_IO to prevent excessive reclaim. This
   however affects also the second attempt, which is not limited to
   single node.

   Instead of that, reuse the existing check for costly order
   __GFP_NORETRY allocations, and make sure the first THP attempt uses
   __GFP_NORETRY. As a side-effect, all costly order __GFP_NORETRY
   allocations will bail out if compaction needs reclaim, while
   previously they only bailed out when compaction was deferred due to
   previous failures.

   This should be still acceptable within the __GFP_NORETRY semantics.

 - Before the patch, the second allocation attempt (on all nodes) was
   passing __GFP_NORETRY. This is redundant as the check for pageblock
   order (discussed above) was stronger. It's also contrary to
   madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) which means some effort to allocate THP is
   requested.

   After this patch, the second attempt doesn't pass __GFP_THISNODE nor
   __GFP_NORETRY.

To sum up, THP page faults now try the following attempts:

1. local node only THP allocation with no reclaim, just compaction.
2. for madvised VMA's or when synchronous compaction is enabled always - THP
   allocation from any node with effort determined by global defrag setting
   and VMA madvise
3. fallback to base pages on any node

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/08a3f4dd-c3ce-0009-86c5-9ee51aba8557@suse.cz
Fixes: b39d0ee2632d ("mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 067cf7d3daf5..b2920ae87a61 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2148,18 +2148,22 @@ alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol);
 		if (!nmask || node_isset(hpage_node, *nmask)) {
 			mpol_cond_put(pol);
+			/*
+			 * First, try to allocate THP only on local node, but
+			 * don't reclaim unnecessarily, just compact.
+			 */
 			page = __alloc_pages_node(hpage_node,
-						gfp | __GFP_THISNODE, order);
+				gfp | __GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NORETRY, order);
 
 			/*
 			 * If hugepage allocations are configured to always
 			 * synchronous compact or the vma has been madvised
 			 * to prefer hugepage backing, retry allowing remote
-			 * memory as well.
+			 * memory with both reclaim and compact as well.
 			 */
 			if (!page && (gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
 				page = __alloc_pages_node(hpage_node,
-						gfp | __GFP_NORETRY, order);
+								gfp, order);
 
 			goto out;
 		}