The patch titled Subject: mm: free folios in a batch in shrink_folio_list() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-free-folios-in-a-batch-in-shrink_folio_list.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-free-folios-in-a-batch-in-shrink_folio_list.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: free folios in a batch in shrink_folio_list() Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:42:45 +0000 Use free_unref_page_batch() to free the folios. This may increase the number of IPIs from calling try_to_unmap_flush() more often, but that's going to be very workload-dependent. It may even reduce the number of IPIs as we now batch-free large folios instead of freeing them one at a time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227174254.710559-12-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-free-folios-in-a-batch-in-shrink_folio_list +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1009,14 +1009,15 @@ static unsigned int shrink_folio_list(st struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc, struct reclaim_stat *stat, bool ignore_references) { + struct folio_batch free_folios; LIST_HEAD(ret_folios); - LIST_HEAD(free_folios); LIST_HEAD(demote_folios); unsigned int nr_reclaimed = 0; unsigned int pgactivate = 0; bool do_demote_pass; struct swap_iocb *plug = NULL; + folio_batch_init(&free_folios); memset(stat, 0, sizeof(*stat)); cond_resched(); do_demote_pass = can_demote(pgdat->node_id, sc); @@ -1415,14 +1416,11 @@ free_it: */ nr_reclaimed += nr_pages; - /* - * Is there need to periodically free_folio_list? It would - * appear not as the counts should be low - */ - if (unlikely(folio_test_large(folio))) - destroy_large_folio(folio); - else - list_add(&folio->lru, &free_folios); + if (folio_batch_add(&free_folios, folio) == 0) { + mem_cgroup_uncharge_folios(&free_folios); + try_to_unmap_flush(); + free_unref_folios(&free_folios); + } continue; activate_locked_split: @@ -1486,9 +1484,9 @@ keep: pgactivate = stat->nr_activate[0] + stat->nr_activate[1]; - mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(&free_folios); + mem_cgroup_uncharge_folios(&free_folios); try_to_unmap_flush(); - free_unref_page_list(&free_folios); + free_unref_folios(&free_folios); list_splice(&ret_folios, folio_list); count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-support-order-1-folios-in-the-page-cache.patch mm-make-folios_put-the-basis-of-release_pages.patch mm-convert-free_unref_page_list-to-use-folios.patch mm-add-free_unref_folios.patch mm-use-folios_put-in-__folio_batch_release.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup_uncharge_folios.patch mm-remove-use-of-folio-list-from-folios_put.patch mm-use-free_unref_folios-in-put_pages_list.patch mm-use-__page_cache_release-in-folios_put.patch mm-handle-large-folios-in-free_unref_folios.patch mm-allow-non-hugetlb-large-folios-to-be-batch-processed.patch mm-free-folios-in-a-batch-in-shrink_folio_list.patch mm-free-folios-directly-in-move_folios_to_lru.patch memcg-remove-mem_cgroup_uncharge_list.patch mm-remove-free_unref_page_list.patch mm-remove-lru_to_page.patch mm-convert-free_pages_and_swap_cache-to-use-folios_put.patch mm-use-a-folio-in-__collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded.patch mm-convert-free_swap_cache-to-take-a-folio.patch