commit 68600f623d69 ("mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off
error") makes the scan size round up to @denominator regardless of the
memory cgroup's state, online or offline. This affects the overall
reclaiming behavior: The corresponding LRU list is eligible for reclaiming
only when its size logically right shifted by @sc->priority is bigger than
zero in the former formula (non-roundup one). For example, the inactive
anonymous LRU list should have at least 0x4000 pages to be eligible for
reclaiming when we have 60/12 for swappiness/priority and without taking
scan/rotation ratio into account. After the roundup is applied, the
inactive anonymous LRU list becomes eligible for reclaiming when its
size is bigger than or equal to 0x1000 in the same condition.
(0x4000 >> 12) * 60 / (60 + 140 + 1) = 1
((0x1000 >> 12) * 60) + 200) / (60 + 140 + 1) = 1
aarch64 has 512MB huge page size when the base page size is 64KB. The
memory cgroup that has a huge page is always eligible for reclaiming in
that case. The reclaiming is likely to stop after the huge page is
reclaimed, meaing the subsequent @sc->priority and memory cgroups will be
skipped. It changes the overall reclaiming behavior. This fixes the issue
by applying the roundup to offlined memory cgroups only, to give more
preference to reclaim memory from offlined memory cgroup. It sounds
reasonable as those memory is likely to be useless.
The issue was found by starting up 8 VMs on a Ampere Mustang machine,
which has 8 CPUs and 16 GB memory. Each VM is given with 2 vCPUs and 2GB
memory. 784MB swap space is consumed after these 8 VMs are completely up.
Note that KSM is disable while THP is enabled in the testing. With this
applied, the consumed swap space decreased to 60MB.
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16196 10065 2049 16 4081 3749
Swap: 8175 784 7391
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16196 11324 3656 24 1215 2936
Swap: 8175 60 8115
Fixes: 68600f623d69 ("mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.20+
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index c05eb9efec07..876370565455 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2415,10 +2415,13 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
/*
* Scan types proportional to swappiness and
* their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
- * Make sure we don't miss the last page
- * because of a round-off error.
+ * Make sure we don't miss the last page on
+ * the offlined memory cgroups because of a
+ * round-off error.
*/
- scan = DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(scan * fraction[file],
+ scan = mem_cgroup_online(memcg) ?
+ div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator) :
+ DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(scan * fraction[file],
denominator);
break;
case SCAN_FILE:
--
2.23.0
