提交 6f04f48d 编写于 作者: S Suleiman Souhlal 提交者: Linus Torvalds

mm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough.

Prior to this change, we would decide whether to force scan a LRU during
reclaim if that LRU itself was too small for the current priority.
However, this can lead to the file LRU getting force scanned even if
there are a lot of anonymous pages we can reclaim, leading to hot file
pages getting needlessly reclaimed.

To address this, we instead only force scan when none of the reclaimable
LRUs are big enough.

Gives huge improvements with zswap.  For example, when doing -j20 kernel
build in a 500MB container with zswap enabled, runtime (in seconds) is
greatly reduced:

x without this change
+ with this change
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       700.997       790.076       763.928        754.05      39.59493
+   5       141.634       197.899       155.706         161.9     21.270224
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -592.15 +/- 46.3521
        -78.5293% +/- 6.14709%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 31.7819)

Should also give some improvements in regular (non-zswap) swap cases.

Yes, hughd found significant speedup using regular swap, with several
memcgs under pressure; and it should also be effective in the non-memcg
case, whenever one or another zone LRU is forced too small.
Signed-off-by: NSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
上级 c86c97ff
......@@ -1866,6 +1866,8 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
bool force_scan = false;
unsigned long ap, fp;
enum lru_list lru;
bool some_scanned;
int pass;
/*
* If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0. This
......@@ -1989,39 +1991,49 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
fraction[1] = fp;
denominator = ap + fp + 1;
out:
for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
int file = is_file_lru(lru);
unsigned long size;
unsigned long scan;
some_scanned = false;
/* Only use force_scan on second pass. */
for (pass = 0; !some_scanned && pass < 2; pass++) {
for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
int file = is_file_lru(lru);
unsigned long size;
unsigned long scan;
size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
scan = size >> sc->priority;
size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
scan = size >> sc->priority;
if (!scan && force_scan)
scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
if (!scan && pass && force_scan)
scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
switch (scan_balance) {
case SCAN_EQUAL:
/* Scan lists relative to size */
break;
case SCAN_FRACT:
switch (scan_balance) {
case SCAN_EQUAL:
/* Scan lists relative to size */
break;
case SCAN_FRACT:
/*
* Scan types proportional to swappiness and
* their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
*/
scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
denominator);
break;
case SCAN_FILE:
case SCAN_ANON:
/* Scan one type exclusively */
if ((scan_balance == SCAN_FILE) != file)
scan = 0;
break;
default:
/* Look ma, no brain */
BUG();
}
nr[lru] = scan;
/*
* Scan types proportional to swappiness and
* their relative recent reclaim efficiency.
* Skip the second pass and don't force_scan,
* if we found something to scan.
*/
scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
break;
case SCAN_FILE:
case SCAN_ANON:
/* Scan one type exclusively */
if ((scan_balance == SCAN_FILE) != file)
scan = 0;
break;
default:
/* Look ma, no brain */
BUG();
some_scanned |= !!scan;
}
nr[lru] = scan;
}
}
......
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