Commit 7efc3b72 ("mm/compaction: fix set skip in
fast_find_migrateblock") address an issue where a pageblock selected by
fast_find_migrateblock() was ignored.  Unfortunately, the same fix
resulted in numerous reports of khugepaged or kcompactd stalling for long
periods of time or consuming 100% of CPU.

Tracing showed that there was a lot of rescanning between a small subset
of pageblocks because the conditions for marking the block skip are not
met.  The scan is not reaching the end of the pageblock because enough
pages were isolated but none were migrated successfully.  Eventually it
circles back to the same block.

Pageblock skip tracking tries to minimise both latency and excessive
scanning but tracking exactly when a block is fully scanned requires an
excessive amount of state.  This patch forcibly rescans a pageblock when
all isolated pages fail to migrate even though it could be for transient
reasons such as page writeback or page dirty.  This will sometimes migrate
too many pages but pageblocks will be marked skip and forward progress
will be made.

"Usemen" from the mmtests configuration
workload-usemem-stress-numa-compact was used to stress compaction.  The
compaction trace events were recorded using a 6.2-rc5 kernel that includes
commit 7efc3b72 and count of unique ranges were measured.  The top 5
ranges were

   3076 range=(0x10ca00-0x10cc00)
   3076 range=(0x110a00-0x110c00)
   3098 range=(0x13b600-0x13b800)
   3104 range=(0x141c00-0x141e00)
  11424 range=(0x11b600-0x11b800)

While this workload is very different than what the bugs reported, the
pattern of the same subset of blocks being repeatedly scanned is observed.
At one point, *only* the range range=(0x11b600 ~ 0x11b800) was scanned
for 2 seconds.  14 seconds passed between the first migration-related
event and the last.

With the series applied including this patch, the top 5 ranges were

      1 range=(0x11607e-0x116200)
      1 range=(0x116200-0x116278)
      1 range=(0x116278-0x116400)
      1 range=(0x116400-0x116424)
      1 range=(0x116424-0x116600)

Only unique ranges were scanned and the time between the first
migration-related event was 0.11 milliseconds.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230125134434.18017-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net


Fixes: 7efc3b72 ("mm/compaction: fix set skip in fast_find_migrateblock")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>