From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758735Ab2GLGk6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:40:58 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39924 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758680Ab2GLGk4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:40:56 -0400 From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , LKML , David Miller , Neil Brown , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Christie , Eric B Munson , Eric Dumazet , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 16/16] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:40:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1342075232-29267-17-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.2 In-Reply-To: <1342075232-29267-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1342075232-29267-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Under significant pressure when writing back to network-backed storage, direct reclaimers may get throttled. This is expected to be a short-lived event and the processes get woken up again but processes do get stalled. This patch counts how many times such stalling occurs. It's up to the administrator whether to reduce these stalls by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h index 06f8e38..57f7b10 100644 --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSTEAL_DIRECT), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_KSWAPD), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_DIRECT), + PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE, #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED, #endif diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index ffe58d3..a75b083 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2177,6 +2177,9 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) return; + /* Account for the throttling */ + count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE); + /* * If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it * is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index e4db312..dcc3858 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgsteal_direct") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_kswapd") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_direct") + "pgscan_direct_throttle", #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA "zone_reclaim_failed", -- 1.7.9.2