On 05/09/2014 05:48 PM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Wed, May 07 2014, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> During compaction, update_nr_listpages() has been used to count remaining
>> non-migrated and free pages after a call to migrage_pages(). The freepages
>> counting has become unneccessary, and it turns out that migratepages counting
>> is also unnecessary in most cases.
>>
>> The only situation when it's needed to count cc->migratepages is when
>> migrate_pages() returns with a negative error code. Otherwise, the 
>> non-negative
>> return value is the number of pages that were not migrated, which is exactly
>> the count of remaining pages in the cc->migratepages list.
>>
>> Furthermore, any non-zero count is only interesting for the tracepoint of
>> mm_compaction_migratepages events, because after that all remaining 
>> unmigrated
>> pages are put back and their count is set to 0.
>>
>> This patch therefore removes update_nr_listpages() completely, and changes 
>> the
>> tracepoint definition so that the manual counting is done only when the
>> tracepoint is enabled, and only when migrate_pages() returns a negative error
>> code.
>>
>> Furthermore, migrate_pages() and the tracepoints won't be called when there's
>> nothing to migrate. This potentially avoids some wasted cycles and reduces 
>> the
>> volume of uninteresting mm_compaction_migratepages events where 
>> "nr_migrated=0
>> nr_failed=0". In the stress-highalloc mmtest, this was about 75% of the 
>> events.
>> The mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages event is better for determining that
>> nothing was isolated for migration, and this one was just duplicating the 
>> info.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
> 
> One tiny comment below:
> 
>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   v2: checkpack and other non-functional fixes suggested by Naoya Horiguchi
>>
>>   include/trace/events/compaction.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>   mm/compaction.c                   | 31 +++++++------------------------
>>   2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/trace/events/compaction.h 
>> b/include/trace/events/compaction.h
>> index 06f544e..aacaf0f 100644
>> --- a/include/trace/events/compaction.h
>> +++ b/include/trace/events/compaction.h
>> @@ -58,7 +61,22 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_migratepages,
>>      ),
>>   
>>      TP_fast_assign(
>> -            __entry->nr_migrated = nr_migrated;
>> +            unsigned long nr_failed = 0;
>> +            struct page *page;
>> +
>> +            /*
>> +             * migrate_pages() returns either a non-negative number
>> +             * with the number of pages that failed migration, or an
>> +             * error code, in which case we need to count the remaining
>> +             * pages manually
>> +             */
>> +            if (migrate_rc >= 0)
>> +                    nr_failed = migrate_rc;
>> +            else
>> +                    list_for_each_entry(page, migratepages, lru)
>> +                            nr_failed++;
> 
> list_for_each would suffice here.
> 
>> +
>> +            __entry->nr_migrated = nr_all - nr_failed;
>>              __entry->nr_failed = nr_failed;
>>      ),
>>   

Right, thanks!

-----8<-----
From: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:56:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mm-compaction-do-not-count-migratepages-when-unnecessary-fix

list_for_each is enough for counting the list length. We also avoid including
struct page definition this way.

Suggested-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
---
 include/trace/events/compaction.h | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/compaction.h 
b/include/trace/events/compaction.h
index aacaf0f..c6814b9 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/compaction.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/compaction.h
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
-#include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <trace/events/gfpflags.h>
 
 DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(mm_compaction_isolate_template,
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_migratepages,
 
        TP_fast_assign(
                unsigned long nr_failed = 0;
-               struct page *page;
+               struct list_head *page_lru;
 
                /*
                 * migrate_pages() returns either a non-negative number
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_migratepages,
                if (migrate_rc >= 0)
                        nr_failed = migrate_rc;
                else
-                       list_for_each_entry(page, migratepages, lru)
+                       list_for_each(page_lru, migratepages)
                                nr_failed++;
 
                __entry->nr_migrated = nr_all - nr_failed;
-- 
1.8.4.5



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