Hello, This series try to enable migration of non-LRU pages, such as driver's page.
My ARM-based platform occured severe fragmentation problem after long-term (several days) test. Sometimes even order-3 page allocation failed. It has memory size 512MB ~ 1024MB. 30% ~ 40% memory is consumed for graphic processing and 20~30 memory is reserved for zram. I found that many pages of GPU driver and zram are non-movable pages. So I reported Minchan Kim, the maintainer of zram, and he made the internal compaction logic of zram. And I made the internal compaction of GPU driver. They reduced some fragmentation but they are not enough effective. They are activated by its own interface, /sys, so they are not cooperative with kernel compaction. If there is too much fragmentation and kernel starts to compaction, zram and GPU driver cannot work with the kernel compaction. The first this patch adds a generic isolate/migrate/putback callbacks for page address-space. The zram and GPU, and any other modules can register its own migration method. The kernel compaction can call the registered migration when it works. Therefore all page in the system can be migrated at once. The 2nd the generic migration callbacks are applied into balloon driver. My gpu driver code is not open so I apply generic migration into balloon to show how it works. I've tested it with qemu enabled by kvm like followings: - turn on Ubuntu 14.04 with 1G memory on qemu. - do kernel building - after several seconds check more than 512MB is used with free command - command "balloon 512" in qemu monitor - check hundreds MB of pages are migrated Next kernel compaction code can call generic migration callbacks instead of balloon driver interface. Finally calling migration of balloon driver is removed. Gioh Kim (4): mm/compaction: enable driver page migration mm/balloon: apply migratable-page into balloon driver mm/compaction: apply migratable-page into compaction mm: remove direct migration of migratable-page drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 + fs/proc/page.c | 4 +- include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 42 +++++++++++++++------ include/linux/compaction.h | 13 +++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 2 + include/linux/mm.h | 14 +++---- include/linux/pagemap.h | 27 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h | 2 +- mm/balloon_compaction.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- mm/compaction.c | 9 +++-- mm/migrate.c | 25 ++++--------- 11 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
