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Johannes Weiner bd3f4b6fd9 mm: don't wake kswapd prematurely when watermark boosting is disabled 
[ Upstream commit 597c892038 ]

On 2-node NUMA hosts we see bursts of kswapd reclaim and subsequent
pressure spikes and stalls from cache refaults while there is plenty of
free memory in the system.

Usually, kswapd is woken up when all eligible nodes in an allocation are
full.  But the code related to watermark boosting can wake kswapd on one
full node while the other one is mostly empty.  This may be justified to
fight fragmentation, but is currently unconditionally done whether
watermark boosting is occurring or not.

In our case, many of our workloads' throughput scales with available
memory, and pure utilization is a more tangible concern than trends
around longer-term fragmentation.  As a result we generally disable
watermark boosting.

Wake kswapd only woken when watermark boosting is requested.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020175833.397286-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 1c30844d2d ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2020-12-30 11:53:55 +01:00
arch sparc: fix handling of page table constructor failure 2020-12-30 11:53:55 +01:00
block block-5.10-2020-12-05 2020-12-05 14:45:30 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: Kconfig - CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS requires the manager 2020-12-30 11:53:09 +01:00
Documentation USB: UAS: introduce a quirk to set no_write_same 2020-12-21 13:30:08 +01:00
drivers mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork 2020-12-30 11:53:54 +01:00
fs ubifs: Fix error return code in ubifs_init_authentication() 2020-12-30 11:53:52 +01:00
include mm/rmap: always do TTU_IGNORE_ACCESS 2020-12-30 11:53:55 +01:00
init initramfs: fix clang build failure 2020-12-11 14:02:14 -08:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork 2020-12-30 11:53:54 +01:00
lib selftest/fpu: avoid clang warning 2020-12-11 14:02:14 -08:00
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mm mm: don't wake kswapd prematurely when watermark boosting is disabled 2020-12-30 11:53:55 +01:00
net sunrpc: fix xs_read_xdr_buf for partial pages receive 2020-12-30 11:53:53 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix possible hang in xdpsock with multiple threads 2020-12-30 11:53:49 +01:00
scripts scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs 2020-12-30 11:53:33 +01:00
security selinux: fix inode_doinit_with_dentry() LABEL_INVALID error handling 2020-12-30 11:53:03 +01:00
sound ASoC: wm_adsp: remove "ctl" from list on error in wm_adsp_create_control() 2020-12-30 11:53:50 +01:00
tools perf test: Fix metric parsing test 2020-12-30 11:53:54 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-10 15:30:13 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.