mm: compaction: include compound page count for scanning in pageblock isolation
authorWilliam Lam <william.lam@bytedance.com>
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:28:06 +0000 (21:28 +0100)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 30 Jul 2022 01:07:14 +0000 (18:07 -0700)
commitb717d6b93b54ec2a2a7d3bb7268d3ff847cc54c5
treef98442e0274b06c901382473cd8471ca9af029c3
parentac3ced5fc12fb3d7268054485cbc36441c05cf24
mm: compaction: include compound page count for scanning in pageblock isolation

The number of scanned pages can be lower than the number of isolated pages
when isolating mirgratable or free pageblock.  The metric is being
reported in trace event and also used in vmstat.

some example output from trace where it shows nr_taken can be greater
than nr_scanned:

Produced by kernel v5.19-rc6
kcompactd0-42      [001] .....  1210.268022: mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages: range=(0x107ae4 ~ 0x107c00) nr_scanned=265 nr_taken=255
[...]
kcompactd0-42      [001] .....  1210.268382: mm_compaction_isolate_freepages: range=(0x215800 ~ 0x215a00) nr_scanned=13 nr_taken=128
kcompactd0-42      [001] .....  1210.268383: mm_compaction_isolate_freepages: range=(0x215600 ~ 0x215680) nr_scanned=1 nr_taken=128

mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages does not seem to have this
behaviour, but for the reason of consistency, nr_scanned should also be
taken care of in that side.

This behaviour is confusing since currently the count for isolated pages
takes account of compound page but not for the case of scanned pages.  And
given that the number of isolated pages(nr_taken) reported in
mm_compaction_isolate_template trace event is on a single-page basis, the
ambiguity when reporting the number of scanned pages can be removed by
also including compound page count.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711202806.22296-1-william.lam@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: William Lam <william.lam@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c