hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail
When allocating hugetlbfs pool pages via /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, the
pages will be interleaved between all nodes of the system. If nodes are
not equal, it is quite possible for one node to fill up before the others.
When this happens, the code still attempts to allocate pages from the
full node. This results in calls to direct reclaim and compaction which
slow things down considerably.
When allocating pool pages, note the state of the previous allocation for
each node. If previous allocation failed, do not use the aggressive retry
algorithm on successive attempts. The allocation will still succeed if
there is memory available, but it will not try as hard to free up memory.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806014744.15446-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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