[PATCH 09/15] mm/compaction: Support dynamic housekeeping mask updates for kcompactd

Qiliang Yuan posted 15 patches 1 week ago
[PATCH 09/15] mm/compaction: Support dynamic housekeeping mask updates for kcompactd
Posted by Qiliang Yuan 1 week ago
The kcompactd threads are affined to housekeeping CPUs (HK_TYPE_DOMAIN)
at boot to avoid interference with isolated workloads. Currently,
these threads do not migrate when the housekeeping boundaries are
reconfigured at runtime.

Implement a housekeeping notifier to synchronize kcompactd affinity.

This ensures that background compaction threads honor the dynamic
isolation boundaries configured via the DHEI sysfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <realwujing@gmail.com>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 1e8f8eca318c6..574ee3c6dc942 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/page_owner.h>
 #include <linux/psi.h>
 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
+#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
@@ -3246,6 +3247,7 @@ void __meminit kcompactd_run(int nid)
 		pr_err("Failed to start kcompactd on node %d\n", nid);
 		pgdat->kcompactd = NULL;
 	} else {
+		housekeeping_affine(pgdat->kcompactd, HK_TYPE_KTHREAD);
 		wake_up_process(pgdat->kcompactd);
 	}
 }
@@ -3320,6 +3322,30 @@ static const struct ctl_table vm_compaction[] = {
 	},
 };
 
+static int kcompactd_housekeeping_reconfigure(struct notifier_block *nb,
+					      unsigned long action, void *data)
+{
+	struct housekeeping_update *upd = data;
+	unsigned int type = upd->type;
+
+	if (action == HK_UPDATE_MASK && type == HK_TYPE_KTHREAD) {
+		int nid;
+
+		for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {
+			pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
+
+			if (pgdat->kcompactd)
+				housekeeping_affine(pgdat->kcompactd, HK_TYPE_KTHREAD);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block kcompactd_housekeeping_nb = {
+	.notifier_call = kcompactd_housekeeping_reconfigure,
+};
+
 static int __init kcompactd_init(void)
 {
 	int nid;
@@ -3327,6 +3353,7 @@ static int __init kcompactd_init(void)
 	for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
 		kcompactd_run(nid);
 	register_sysctl_init("vm", vm_compaction);
+	housekeeping_register_notifier(&kcompactd_housekeeping_nb);
 	return 0;
 }
 subsys_initcall(kcompactd_init)

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Re: [PATCH 09/15] mm/compaction: Support dynamic housekeeping mask updates for kcompactd
Posted by Frederic Weisbecker 1 day, 16 hours ago
Le Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 05:09:40PM +0800, Qiliang Yuan a écrit :
> The kcompactd threads are affined to housekeeping CPUs (HK_TYPE_DOMAIN)
> at boot to avoid interference with isolated workloads. Currently,
> these threads do not migrate when the housekeeping boundaries are
> reconfigured at runtime.
> 
> Implement a housekeeping notifier to synchronize kcompactd affinity.
> 
> This ensures that background compaction threads honor the dynamic
> isolation boundaries configured via the DHEI sysfs interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <realwujing@gmail.com>

Unbound kthreads are now handled by HK_TYPE_DOMAIN dynamically.

Thanks.

-- 
Frederic Weisbecker
SUSE Labs