The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: section for rmap/PT walk feedback has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-multi-gen-lru-section-for-rmap-pt-walk-feedback.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: "T.J. Alumbaugh" <talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: section for rmap/PT walk feedback Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:18:22 +0000 Add a section for lru_gen_look_around() in the code and the design doc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118001827.1040870-3-talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst~mm-multi-gen-lru-section-for-rmap-pt-walk-feedback +++ a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst @@ -156,6 +156,20 @@ This time-based approach has the followi and memory sizes. 2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer. +Rmap/PT walk feedback +--------------------- +Searching the rmap for PTEs mapping each page on an LRU list (to test +and clear the accessed bit) can be expensive because pages from +different VMAs (PA space) are not cache friendly to the rmap (VA +space). For workloads mostly using mapped pages, searching the rmap +can incur the highest CPU cost in the reclaim path. + +``lru_gen_look_around()`` exploits spatial locality to reduce the +trips into the rmap. It scans the adjacent PTEs of a young PTE and +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. + Summary ------- The multi-gen LRU can be disassembled into the following parts: --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-multi-gen-lru-section-for-rmap-pt-walk-feedback +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4569,6 +4569,10 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pgli } } +/****************************************************************************** + * rmap/PT walk feedback + ******************************************************************************/ + /* * This function exploits spatial locality when shrink_folio_list() walks the * rmap. It scans the adjacent PTEs of a young PTE and promotes hot pages. If _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx are