Create /debug/vm/ and export some page reclaim wait counters.
nr_migrate_wait_writeback wait_on_page_writeback() on migration
nr_reclaim_wait_congested wait_iff_congested() sleeps
nr_reclaim_wait_writeback wait_on_page_writeback() on vmscan
nr_congestion_wait congestion_wait() sleeps
nr_reclaim_throttle_* reclaim_wait() sleeps
/debug/vm/ might be a convenient place for kernel hackers to play with VM
variables, however this whole stuff is mainly a convenient hack...
It shows that it's now pretty hard to trigger reclaim waits.
1) zero waits on
truncate -s 100T /fs/100T
dd if=/fs/100T of=/dev/null bs=4k &
dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/zero bs=4k &
# grep -r . /debug/vm; grep '(nr_vmscan_write|allocstall)' /proc/vmstat
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_clean:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_congestion_wait:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_congested:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_writeback:0
/debug/vm/nr_migrate_wait_writeback:0
nr_vmscan_write 0
allocstall 0
2) some waits on (together with 1)
usemem 5G --sleep 1000& # mem=8GB
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_clean:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd:39
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write:1
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_write:288
/debug/vm/nr_congestion_wait:13
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_congested:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_writeback:0
/debug/vm/nr_migrate_wait_writeback:0
nr_vmscan_write 690
allocstall 267675
echo 0 > /debug/vm/* # before doing 3)
3) some waits on (together with 1,2)
startx
start lots of X app and switch among them in a loop
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_clean:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_congestion_wait:19
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_congested:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_writeback:0
/debug/vm/nr_migrate_wait_writeback:0
nr_vmscan_write 694
allocstall 270880
4) some waits on (together with 1,2,3)
swapon -a
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_clean:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_write:2145
/debug/vm/nr_congestion_wait:47
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_congested:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_writeback:0
/debug/vm/nr_migrate_wait_writeback:0
nr_vmscan_write 42768
allocstall 416735
5) reset counters and stress it more.
# usemem 1G --sleep 1000&
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6801 6758 42 0 0 994
-/+ buffers/cache: 5764 1036
Swap: 51106 235 50870
It's now obviously slow, it now takes seconds or even 10+ seconds to switch to
the other windows:
765.30 A System Monitor
769.72 A Dictionary
772.01 A Home
790.79 A Desktop Help
795.47 A *Unsaved Document 1 - gedit
813.01 A ALC888.svg (1/11)
819.24 A Restore Session - Iceweasel
827.23 A Klondike
853.57 A urxvt
862.49 A xeyes
868.67 A Xpdf: /usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-spec.pdf
869.47 A snb:/home/wfg - ZSH
And it seems that the slowness is caused by huge number of pageout()s:
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_clean:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_throttle_write:307
/debug/vm/nr_congestion_wait:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_congested:0
/debug/vm/nr_reclaim_wait_writeback:0
/debug/vm/nr_migrate_wait_writeback:0
nr_vmscan_write 175085
allocstall 669671
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 10 ++++++++
mm/internal.h | 5 ++++
mm/migrate.c | 3 ++
mm/vmscan.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2012-02-28 18:54:57.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/vmscan.c 2012-02-28 18:55:15.657047580 +0800
@@ -790,6 +790,8 @@ static enum page_references page_check_r
return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
}
+u32 nr_reclaim_wait_writeback;
+
/*
* shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
*/
@@ -861,9 +863,10 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(st
* for the IO to complete.
*/
if ((sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_SYNC) &&
- may_enter_fs)
+ may_enter_fs) {
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
- else {
+ nr_reclaim_wait_writeback++;
+ } else {
unlock_page(page);
goto keep_lumpy;
}
@@ -1573,6 +1576,7 @@ static inline bool should_reclaim_stall(
return priority <= lumpy_stall_priority;
}
+u32 nr_reclaim_throttle[RTT_MAX];
static int reclaim_dirty_level(unsigned long dirty,
unsigned long total)
@@ -1643,6 +1647,7 @@ static bool should_throttle_dirty(struct
wait = level >= DIRTY_LEVEL_THROTTLE_ALL;
out:
if (wait) {
+ nr_reclaim_throttle[type]++;
trace_mm_vmscan_should_throttle_dirty(type, priority,
dirty_level, wait);
}
@@ -3811,3 +3816,49 @@ void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(st
device_remove_file(&node->dev, &dev_attr_scan_unevictable_pages);
}
#endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS)
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+
+static struct dentry *vm_debug_root;
+
+static int __init vm_debug_init(void)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+
+ vm_debug_root = debugfs_create_dir("vm", NULL);
+ if (!vm_debug_root)
+ goto fail;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_migrate_wait_writeback", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, &nr_migrate_wait_writeback);
+#endif
+
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_wait_writeback", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, &nr_reclaim_wait_writeback);
+
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_wait_congested", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, &nr_reclaim_wait_congested);
+
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_congestion_wait", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, &nr_congestion_wait);
+
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_throttle_write", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, nr_reclaim_throttle + RTT_WRITE);
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_throttle_recent_write", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, nr_reclaim_throttle + RTT_RECENT_WRITE);
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_throttle_kswapd", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, nr_reclaim_throttle + RTT_KSWAPD);
+ dentry = debugfs_create_u32("nr_reclaim_throttle_clean", 0644,
+ vm_debug_root, nr_reclaim_throttle + RTT_CLEAN);
+ if (!dentry)
+ goto fail;
+
+ return 0;
+fail:
+ return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+module_init(vm_debug_init);
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
--- linux.orig/mm/migrate.c 2012-02-28 18:54:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/migrate.c 2012-02-28 18:55:03.085047281 +0800
@@ -674,6 +674,8 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page
return rc;
}
+u32 nr_migrate_wait_writeback;
+
static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage,
int force, bool offlining, enum migrate_mode mode)
{
@@ -742,6 +744,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page
if (!force)
goto uncharge;
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+ nr_migrate_wait_writeback++;
}
/*
* By try_to_unmap(), page->mapcount goes down to 0 here. In this case,
--- linux.orig/mm/internal.h 2012-02-28 18:54:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/internal.h 2012-02-28 18:55:03.085047281 +0800
@@ -311,3 +311,8 @@ extern u64 hwpoison_filter_flags_mask;
extern u64 hwpoison_filter_flags_value;
extern u64 hwpoison_filter_memcg;
extern u32 hwpoison_filter_enable;
+
+extern u32 nr_migrate_wait_writeback;
+extern u32 nr_reclaim_wait_congested;
+extern u32 nr_congestion_wait;
+
--- linux.orig/mm/backing-dev.c 2012-02-28 18:54:46.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/backing-dev.c 2012-02-28 18:55:03.085047281 +0800
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
static atomic_long_t bdi_seq = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info = {
@@ -805,6 +807,9 @@ void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_de
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_bdi_congested);
+u32 nr_reclaim_wait_congested;
+u32 nr_congestion_wait;
+
/**
* congestion_wait - wait for a backing_dev to become uncongested
* @sync: SYNC or ASYNC IO
@@ -825,6 +830,10 @@ long congestion_wait(int sync, long time
ret = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
+ nr_congestion_wait++;
+ trace_printk("%pS %pS\n",
+ __builtin_return_address(0),
+ __builtin_return_address(1));
trace_writeback_congestion_wait(jiffies_to_usecs(timeout),
jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies - start));
@@ -879,6 +888,7 @@ long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zon
ret = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
+ nr_reclaim_wait_congested++;
out:
trace_writeback_wait_iff_congested(jiffies_to_usecs(timeout),
jiffies_to_usecs(jiffies - start));
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