Re: [PATCH 08/24] mm/swap: check readahead policy per entry

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Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently VMA readahead is globally disabled when any rotate disk is
> used as swap backend. So multiple swap devices are enabled, if a slower
> hard disk is set as a low priority fallback, and a high performance SSD
> is used and high priority swap device, vma readahead is disabled globally.
> The SSD swap device performance will drop by a lot.
>
> Check readahead policy per entry to avoid such problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/swap_state.c | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index ff6756f2e8e4..fb78f7f18ed7 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ static inline bool swap_use_no_readahead(struct swap_info_struct *si, swp_entry_
>  	return data_race(si->flags & SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO) && __swap_count(entry) == 1;
>  }
>  
> -static inline bool swap_use_vma_readahead(void)
> +static inline bool swap_use_vma_readahead(struct swap_info_struct *si)
>  {
> -	return READ_ONCE(enable_vma_readahead) && !atomic_read(&nr_rotate_swap);
> +	return data_race(si->flags & SWP_SOLIDSTATE) && READ_ONCE(enable_vma_readahead);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry,
>  
>  	folio = filemap_get_folio(swap_address_space(entry), swp_offset(entry));
>  	if (!IS_ERR(folio)) {
> -		bool vma_ra = swap_use_vma_readahead();
> +		bool vma_ra = swap_use_vma_readahead(swp_swap_info(entry));
>  		bool readahead;
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -920,16 +920,18 @@ static struct page *swapin_no_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  			      struct vm_fault *vmf, bool *swapcached)
>  {
> +	struct swap_info_struct *si;
>  	struct mempolicy *mpol;
>  	struct page *page;
>  	pgoff_t ilx;
>  	bool cached;
>  
> +	si = swp_swap_info(entry);
>  	mpol = get_vma_policy(vmf->vma, vmf->address, 0, &ilx);
> -	if (swap_use_no_readahead(swp_swap_info(entry), entry)) {
> +	if (swap_use_no_readahead(si, entry)) {
>  		page = swapin_no_readahead(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, vmf->vma->vm_mm);
>  		cached = false;
> -	} else if (swap_use_vma_readahead()) {
> +	} else if (swap_use_vma_readahead(si)) {

It's possible that some pages are swapped out to SSD while others are
swapped out to HDD in a readahead window.

I suspect that there are practical requirements to use swap on SSD and
HDD at the same time.

>  		page = swap_vma_readahead(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, vmf);
>  		cached = true;
>  	} else {

--
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying




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