The patch titled
Subject: mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint.patch
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, vmscan: add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low tracepoint
Currently we have tracepoints for both active and inactive LRU lists
reclaim but we do not have any which would tell us why we we decided to
age the active list. Without that it is quite hard to diagnose
active/inactive lists balancing. Add mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low
tracepoint to tell us this information.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-8-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/vmscan.c | 23 +++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/trace/events/vmscan.h~mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint include/trace/events/vmscan.h
--- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h~mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint
+++ a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#define RECLAIM_WB_MIXED 0x0010u
#define RECLAIM_WB_SYNC 0x0004u /* Unused, all reclaim async */
#define RECLAIM_WB_ASYNC 0x0008u
+#define RECLAIM_WB_LRU (RECLAIM_WB_ANON|RECLAIM_WB_FILE)
#define show_reclaim_flags(flags) \
(flags) ? __print_flags(flags, "|", \
@@ -426,6 +427,45 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_active,
show_reclaim_flags(__entry->reclaim_flags))
);
+TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low,
+
+ TP_PROTO(int nid, int reclaim_idx,
+ unsigned long total_inactive, unsigned long inactive,
+ unsigned long total_active, unsigned long active,
+ unsigned long ratio, int file),
+
+ TP_ARGS(nid, reclaim_idx, total_inactive, inactive, total_active, active, ratio, file),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field(int, nid)
+ __field(int, reclaim_idx)
+ __field(unsigned long, total_inactive)
+ __field(unsigned long, inactive)
+ __field(unsigned long, total_active)
+ __field(unsigned long, active)
+ __field(unsigned long, ratio)
+ __field(int, reclaim_flags)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->nid = nid;
+ __entry->reclaim_idx = reclaim_idx;
+ __entry->total_inactive = total_inactive;
+ __entry->inactive = inactive;
+ __entry->total_active = total_active;
+ __entry->active = active;
+ __entry->ratio = ratio;
+ __entry->reclaim_flags = trace_shrink_flags(file) & RECLAIM_WB_LRU;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("nid=%d reclaim_idx=%d total_inactive=%ld inactive=%ld total_active=%ld active=%ld ratio=%ld flags=%s",
+ __entry->nid,
+ __entry->reclaim_idx,
+ __entry->total_inactive, __entry->inactive,
+ __entry->total_active, __entry->active,
+ __entry->ratio,
+ show_reclaim_flags(__entry->reclaim_flags))
+);
#endif /* _TRACE_VMSCAN_H */
/* This part must be outside protection */
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2039,11 +2039,11 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
* 10TB 320 32GB
*/
static bool inactive_list_is_low(struct lruvec *lruvec, bool file,
- struct scan_control *sc)
+ struct scan_control *sc, bool trace)
{
unsigned long inactive_ratio;
- unsigned long inactive;
- unsigned long active;
+ unsigned long total_inactive, inactive;
+ unsigned long total_active, active;
unsigned long gb;
struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
int zid;
@@ -2055,8 +2055,8 @@ static bool inactive_list_is_low(struct
if (!file && !total_swap_pages)
return false;
- inactive = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, file * LRU_FILE);
- active = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, file * LRU_FILE + LRU_ACTIVE);
+ total_inactive = inactive = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, file * LRU_FILE);
+ total_active = active = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, file * LRU_FILE + LRU_ACTIVE);
/*
* For zone-constrained allocations, it is necessary to check if
@@ -2085,6 +2085,11 @@ static bool inactive_list_is_low(struct
else
inactive_ratio = 1;
+ if (trace)
+ trace_mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low(pgdat->node_id,
+ sc->reclaim_idx,
+ total_inactive, inactive,
+ total_active, active, inactive_ratio, file);
return inactive * inactive_ratio < active;
}
@@ -2092,7 +2097,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lr
struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
{
if (is_active_lru(lru)) {
- if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, is_file_lru(lru), sc))
+ if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, is_file_lru(lru), sc, true))
shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, lruvec, sc, lru);
return 0;
}
@@ -2223,7 +2228,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
* lruvec even if it has plenty of old anonymous pages unless the
* system is under heavy pressure.
*/
- if (!inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, true, sc) &&
+ if (!inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, true, sc, false) &&
lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) >> sc->priority) {
scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
goto out;
@@ -2448,7 +2453,7 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pgl
* Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
* rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
*/
- if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, sc))
+ if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, sc, true))
shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
}
@@ -3098,7 +3103,7 @@ static void age_active_anon(struct pglis
do {
struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, memcg);
- if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, sc))
+ if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, sc, true))
shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
_
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mm-fix-remote-numa-hits-statistics.patch
mm-get-rid-of-__gfp_other_node.patch
mm-throttle-show_mem-from-warn_alloc.patch
mm-trace-extract-compaction_status-and-zone_type-to-a-common-header.patch
oom-trace-add-oom-detection-tracepoints.patch
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mm-vmscan-remove-unused-mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate.patch
mm-vmscan-add-active-list-aging-tracepoint.patch
mm-vmscan-add-active-list-aging-tracepoint-update.patch
mm-vmscan-show-the-number-of-skipped-pages-in-mm_vmscan_lru_isolate.patch
mm-vmscan-show-lru-name-in-mm_vmscan_lru_isolate-tracepoint.patch
mm-vmscan-extract-shrink_page_list-reclaim-counters-into-a-struct.patch
mm-vmscan-enhance-mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive-tracepoint.patch
mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint.patch
trace-vmscan-postprocess-sync-with-tracepoints-updates.patch
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