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When reclaim is triggered by high order allocations on a fragmented system, vmpressure() can report poor reclaim efficiency even though the system has plenty of free memory. This is because many pages are scanned, but few are found to actually reclaim - the pages are actively in use and don't need to be freed. The resulting scan:reclaim ratio causes vmpressure() to assert socket pressure, throttling TCP throughput unnecessarily. Costly order allocations (above PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) rely heavily on compaction to succeed, so poor reclaim efficiency at these orders does not necessarily indicate memory pressure. The kernel already treats this order as the boundary where reclaim is no longer expected to succeed and compaction may take over. Make vmpressure() order-aware through an additional parameter sourced from scan_control at existing call sites. Socket pressure is now only asserted when order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. Memcg reclaim is unaffected since try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() always uses order 0, which passes the filter unconditionally. Similarly, vmpressure_prio() now passes order 0 internally when calling vmpressure(), ensuring critical pressure from low reclaim priority is not suppressed by the order filter. The patch was motivated by a case of impacted net throughput in production. On one affected host, the memory state at the time showed ~15GB available, zero cgroup pressure, and the following buddyinfo state: Order FreePages 0: 133,970 1: 29,230 2: 17,351 3: 18,984 7+: 0 Using bpf, it was found that 94% of vmpressure calls on this host were from order-7 kswapd reclaim. TCP minimum recv window is rcv_ssthresh:19712. Before patch: 723 out of 3,843 (19%) TCP connections stuck at minimum recv window After live-patching and ~30min elapsed: 0 out of 3,470 TCP connections stuck at minimum recv window Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260406195014.112521-1-jp.kobryn@linux.dev Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn (Meta) <jp.kobryn@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ The Linux kernel is the core of any Linux operating system. It manages hardware, system resources, and provides the fundamental services for all other software. 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