Hello,
2020년 2월 12일 (수) 오후 12:35, Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>님이 작성:
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:20:37 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > reclaim_stat's rotate is used for controlling the ratio of scanning page
> > between file and anonymous LRU. All new anonymous pages are counted
> > for rotate before the patch, protecting anonymous pages on active LRU, and,
> > it makes that reclaim on anonymous LRU is less happened than file LRU.
> >
> > Now, situation is changed. all new anonymous pages are not added
> > to the active LRU so rotate would be far less than before. It will cause
> > that reclaim on anonymous LRU happens more and it would result in bad
> > effect on some system that is optimized for previous setting.
> >
> > Therefore, this patch counts a new anonymous page as a reclaim_state's
> > rotate. Although it is non-logical to add this count to
> > the reclaim_state's rotate in current algorithm, reducing the regression
> > would be more important.
> >
> > I found this regression on kernel-build test and it is roughly 2~5%
> > performance degradation. With this workaround, performance is completely
> > restored.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/swap.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> > index 18b2735..c3584af 100644
> > --- a/mm/swap.c
> > +++ b/mm/swap.c
> > @@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ int get_kernel_page(unsigned long start, int write, struct page **pages)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_kernel_page);
> >
> > +static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> > + void *arg);
> > +
> > static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct pagevec *pvec,
> > void (*move_fn)(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec, void *arg),
> > void *arg)
> > @@ -207,6 +210,19 @@ static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct pagevec *pvec,
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
> > }
> >
> > + if (move_fn == __pagevec_lru_add_fn) {
> > + struct list_head *entry = &page->lru;
> > + unsigned long next = (unsigned long)entry->next;
> > + unsigned long rotate = next & 2;
> > +
> > + if (rotate) {
> > + VM_BUG_ON(arg);
> > +
> > + next = next & ~2;
> > + entry->next = (struct list_head *)next;
> > + arg = (void *)rotate;
> > + }
> > + }
> > lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
> > (*move_fn)(page, lruvec, arg);
> > }
> > @@ -475,6 +491,14 @@ void lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable(struct page *page,
> > hpage_nr_pages(page));
> > count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGMLOCKED);
> > }
> > +
> > + if (PageSwapBacked(page) && evictable) {
> > + struct list_head *entry = &page->lru;
> > + unsigned long next = (unsigned long)entry->next;
> > +
> > + next = next | 2;
> > + entry->next = (struct list_head *)next;
> > + }
> > lru_cache_add(page);
> > }
> >
> > @@ -927,6 +951,7 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> > {
> > enum lru_list lru;
> > int was_unevictable = TestClearPageUnevictable(page);
> > + unsigned long rotate = (unsigned long)arg;
> >
> > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
> >
> > @@ -962,7 +987,7 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> > if (page_evictable(page)) {
> > lru = page_lru(page);
> > update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, page_is_file_cache(page),
> > - PageActive(page));
> > + PageActive(page) | rotate);
>
>
> Is it likely to rotate a page if we know it's not active?
>
> update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, page_is_file_cache(page),
> - PageActive(page));
> + PageActive(page) ||
> + !page_is_file_cache(page));
>
My intention is that only newly created anonymous pages contributes
the rotate count.
With your code suggestion, other case for anonymous pages could also contributes
the rotate count since __pagevec_lru_add_fn() is used else where.
Thanks.
