This is a new version which bases on linux-next Johannes Weiner has suggested: "So here is a crazy idea that may be worth exploring: Right now, pgdat->lru_lock protects both PageLRU *and* the lruvec's linked list. Can we make PageLRU atomic and use it to stabilize the lru_lock instead, and then use the lru_lock only serialize list operations? ..." With new memcg charge path and this solution, we could isolate LRU pages to exclusive visit them in compaction, page migration, reclaim, memcg move_accunt, huge page split etc scenarios while keeping pages' memcg stable. Then possible to change per node lru locking to per memcg lru locking. As to pagevec_lru_move_fn funcs, it would be safe to let pages remain on lru list, lru lock could guard them for list integrity. The patchset includes 3 parts: 1, some code cleanup and minimum optimization as a preparation. 2, use TestCleanPageLRU as page isolation's precondition 3, replace per node lru_lock with per memcg per node lru_lock The 3rd part moves per node lru_lock into lruvec, thus bring a lru_lock for each of memcg per node. So on a large machine, each of memcg don't have to suffer from per node pgdat->lru_lock competition. They could go fast with their self lru_lock Following Daniel Jordan's suggestion, I have run 208 'dd' with on 104 containers on a 2s * 26cores * HT box with a modefied case: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/vm-scalability.git/tree/case-lru-file-readtwice With this patchset, the readtwice performance increased about 80% in concurrent containers. Thanks Hugh Dickins and Konstantin Khlebnikov, they both brought this idea 8 years ago, and others who give comments as well: Daniel Jordan, Mel Gorman, Shakeel Butt, Matthew Wilcox etc. Thanks for Testing support from Intel 0day and Rong Chen, Fengguang Wu, and Yun Wang. Hugh Dickins also shared his kbuild-swap case. Thanks! Alex Shi (14): mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary lruvec adding mm/page_idle: no unlikely double check for idle page counting mm/compaction: correct the comments of compact_defer_shift mm/compaction: rename compact_deferred as compact_should_defer mm/thp: move lru_add_page_tail func to huge_memory.c mm/thp: clean up lru_add_page_tail mm/thp: narrow lru locking mm/memcg: add debug checking in lock_page_memcg mm/lru: introduce TestClearPageLRU mm/compaction: do page isolation first in compaction mm/mlock: reorder isolation sequence during munlock mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock mm/lru: introduce the relock_page_lruvec function mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru_lock Hugh Dickins (2): mm/vmscan: use relock for move_pages_to_lru mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 +- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 8 +- Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 2 +- Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 22 +-- include/linux/compaction.h | 4 +- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 92 +++++++++++ include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +- include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 + include/linux/swap.h | 4 +- include/trace/events/compaction.h | 2 +- mm/compaction.c | 104 ++++++++----- mm/filemap.c | 4 +- mm/huge_memory.c | 51 +++++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 87 ++++++++++- mm/mlock.c | 93 ++++++------ mm/mmzone.c | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 1 - mm/page_idle.c | 8 - mm/rmap.c | 2 +- mm/swap.c | 112 ++++---------- mm/swap_state.c | 6 +- mm/vmscan.c | 168 +++++++++++---------- mm/workingset.c | 4 +- 24 files changed, 487 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1
