[PATCH mm-unstable v1 3/7] mm: multi-gen LRU: section for Bloom filters

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Move Bloom filters code into a dedicated section. Improve the design
doc to explain Bloom filter usage and connection between aging and
eviction in their use.

Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst |  16 +++
 mm/vmscan.c                       | 180 +++++++++++++++---------------
 2 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst b/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
index bd988a142bc2..770b5d539856 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
@@ -170,6 +170,22 @@ promotes hot pages. If the scan was done cacheline efficiently, it
 adds the PMD entry pointing to the PTE table to the Bloom filter. This
 forms a feedback loop between the eviction and the aging.
 
+Bloom Filters
+-------------
+Bloom filters are a space and memory efficient data structure for set
+membership test, i.e., test if an element is not in the set or may be
+in the set.
+
+In the eviction path, specifically, in ``lru_gen_look_around()``, if a
+PMD has a sufficient number of hot pages, its address is placed in the
+filter. In the aging path, set membership means that the PTE range
+will be scanned for young pages.
+
+Note that Bloom filters are probabilistic on set membership. If a test
+is false positive, the cost is an additional scan of a range of PTEs,
+which may yield hot pages anyway. Parameters of the filter itself can
+control the false positive rate in the limit.
+
 Summary
 -------
 The multi-gen LRU can be disassembled into the following parts:
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index eb9263bf6806..1be9120349f8 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3233,6 +3233,98 @@ static bool __maybe_unused seq_is_valid(struct lruvec *lruvec)
 	       get_nr_gens(lruvec, LRU_GEN_ANON) <= MAX_NR_GENS;
 }
 
+/******************************************************************************
+ *                          Bloom filters
+ ******************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+ * Bloom filters with m=1<<15, k=2 and the false positive rates of ~1/5 when
+ * n=10,000 and ~1/2 when n=20,000, where, conventionally, m is the number of
+ * bits in a bitmap, k is the number of hash functions and n is the number of
+ * inserted items.
+ *
+ * Page table walkers use one of the two filters to reduce their search space.
+ * To get rid of non-leaf entries that no longer have enough leaf entries, the
+ * aging uses the double-buffering technique to flip to the other filter each
+ * time it produces a new generation. For non-leaf entries that have enough
+ * leaf entries, the aging carries them over to the next generation in
+ * walk_pmd_range(); the eviction also report them when walking the rmap
+ * in lru_gen_look_around().
+ *
+ * For future optimizations:
+ * 1. It's not necessary to keep both filters all the time. The spare one can be
+ *    freed after the RCU grace period and reallocated if needed again.
+ * 2. And when reallocating, it's worth scaling its size according to the number
+ *    of inserted entries in the other filter, to reduce the memory overhead on
+ *    small systems and false positives on large systems.
+ * 3. Jenkins' hash function is an alternative to Knuth's.
+ */
+#define BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT	15
+
+static inline int filter_gen_from_seq(unsigned long seq)
+{
+	return seq % NR_BLOOM_FILTERS;
+}
+
+static void get_item_key(void *item, int *key)
+{
+	u32 hash = hash_ptr(item, BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT * 2);
+
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT * 2 > BITS_PER_TYPE(u32));
+
+	key[0] = hash & (BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT) - 1);
+	key[1] = hash >> BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT;
+}
+
+static bool test_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq, void *item)
+{
+	int key[2];
+	unsigned long *filter;
+	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
+
+	filter = READ_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen]);
+	if (!filter)
+		return true;
+
+	get_item_key(item, key);
+
+	return test_bit(key[0], filter) && test_bit(key[1], filter);
+}
+
+static void update_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq, void *item)
+{
+	int key[2];
+	unsigned long *filter;
+	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
+
+	filter = READ_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen]);
+	if (!filter)
+		return;
+
+	get_item_key(item, key);
+
+	if (!test_bit(key[0], filter))
+		set_bit(key[0], filter);
+	if (!test_bit(key[1], filter))
+		set_bit(key[1], filter);
+}
+
+static void reset_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq)
+{
+	unsigned long *filter;
+	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
+
+	filter = lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen];
+	if (filter) {
+		bitmap_clear(filter, 0, BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT));
+		return;
+	}
+
+	filter = bitmap_zalloc(BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT),
+			       __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+	WRITE_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen], filter);
+}
+
 /******************************************************************************
  *                          mm_struct list
  ******************************************************************************/
@@ -3352,94 +3444,6 @@ void lru_gen_migrate_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 }
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Bloom filters with m=1<<15, k=2 and the false positive rates of ~1/5 when
- * n=10,000 and ~1/2 when n=20,000, where, conventionally, m is the number of
- * bits in a bitmap, k is the number of hash functions and n is the number of
- * inserted items.
- *
- * Page table walkers use one of the two filters to reduce their search space.
- * To get rid of non-leaf entries that no longer have enough leaf entries, the
- * aging uses the double-buffering technique to flip to the other filter each
- * time it produces a new generation. For non-leaf entries that have enough
- * leaf entries, the aging carries them over to the next generation in
- * walk_pmd_range(); the eviction also report them when walking the rmap
- * in lru_gen_look_around().
- *
- * For future optimizations:
- * 1. It's not necessary to keep both filters all the time. The spare one can be
- *    freed after the RCU grace period and reallocated if needed again.
- * 2. And when reallocating, it's worth scaling its size according to the number
- *    of inserted entries in the other filter, to reduce the memory overhead on
- *    small systems and false positives on large systems.
- * 3. Jenkins' hash function is an alternative to Knuth's.
- */
-#define BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT	15
-
-static inline int filter_gen_from_seq(unsigned long seq)
-{
-	return seq % NR_BLOOM_FILTERS;
-}
-
-static void get_item_key(void *item, int *key)
-{
-	u32 hash = hash_ptr(item, BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT * 2);
-
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT * 2 > BITS_PER_TYPE(u32));
-
-	key[0] = hash & (BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT) - 1);
-	key[1] = hash >> BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT;
-}
-
-static void reset_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq)
-{
-	unsigned long *filter;
-	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
-
-	filter = lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen];
-	if (filter) {
-		bitmap_clear(filter, 0, BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT));
-		return;
-	}
-
-	filter = bitmap_zalloc(BIT(BLOOM_FILTER_SHIFT),
-			       __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	WRITE_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen], filter);
-}
-
-static void update_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq, void *item)
-{
-	int key[2];
-	unsigned long *filter;
-	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
-
-	filter = READ_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen]);
-	if (!filter)
-		return;
-
-	get_item_key(item, key);
-
-	if (!test_bit(key[0], filter))
-		set_bit(key[0], filter);
-	if (!test_bit(key[1], filter))
-		set_bit(key[1], filter);
-}
-
-static bool test_bloom_filter(struct lruvec *lruvec, unsigned long seq, void *item)
-{
-	int key[2];
-	unsigned long *filter;
-	int gen = filter_gen_from_seq(seq);
-
-	filter = READ_ONCE(lruvec->mm_state.filters[gen]);
-	if (!filter)
-		return true;
-
-	get_item_key(item, key);
-
-	return test_bit(key[0], filter) && test_bit(key[1], filter);
-}
-
 static void reset_mm_stats(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk, bool last)
 {
 	int i;
-- 
2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog





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