- 02 Jun, 2020 40 commits
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Jakub Kicinski authored
We will want to call calculate_high_delay() twice - once for memory and once for swap, and we should apply the clamp value to sum of the penalties. Clamping has to be applied outside of calculate_high_delay(). Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by:
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527195846.102707-3-kuba@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jakub Kicinski authored
Patch series "memcg: Slow down swap allocation as the available space gets depleted", v6. Tejun describes the problem as follows: When swap runs out, there's an abrupt change in system behavior - the anonymous memory suddenly becomes unmanageable which readily breaks any sort of memory isolation and can bring down the whole system. To avoid that, oomd [1] monitors free swap space and triggers kills when it drops below the specific threshold (e.g. 15%). While this works, it's far from ideal: - Depending on IO performance and total swap size, a given headroom might not be enough or too much. - oomd has to monitor swap depletion in addition to the usual pressure metrics and it currently doesn't consider memory.swap.max. Solve this by adapting parts of the approach that memory.high uses - slow down allocation as the resource gets depleted turning the depletion behavior from abrupt cliff one to gradual degradation observable through memory pressure metric. [1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd This patch (of 4): Slice the memory overage calculation logic a little bit so we can reuse it to apply a similar penalty to the swap. The logic which accesses the memory-specific fields (use and high values) has to be taken out of calculate_high_delay(). Signed-off-by:
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Shakeel Butt authored
One way to measure the efficiency of memory reclaim is to look at the ratio (pgscan+pfrefill)/pgsteal. However at the moment these stats are not updated consistently at the system level and the ratio of these are not very meaningful. The pgsteal and pgscan are updated for only global reclaim while pgrefill gets updated for global as well as cgroup reclaim. Please note that this difference is only for system level vmstats. The cgroup stats returned by memory.stat are actually consistent. The cgroup's pgsteal contains number of reclaimed pages for global as well as cgroup reclaim. So, one way to get the system level stats is to get these stats from root's memory.stat, so, expose memory.stat for the root cgroup. From Johannes Weiner: There are subtle differences between /proc/vmstat and memory.stat, and cgroup-aware code that wants to watch the full hierarchy currently has to know about these intricacies and translate semantics back and forth. Generally having the fully recursive memory.stat at the root level could help a broader range of usecases. Why not fix the stats by including both the global and cgroup reclaim activity instead of exposing root cgroup's memory.stat? The reason is the benefit of having metrics exposing the activity that happens purely due to machine capacity rather than localized activity that happens due to the limits throughout the cgroup tree. Additionally there are userspace tools like sysstat(sar) which reads these stats to inform about the system level reclaim activity. So, we should not break such use-cases. Suggested-by:
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508170630.94406-1-shakeelb@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Kaixu Xia authored
When the variables count and limit have the same value(count == limit), the result of min(margin, limit - count) statement should be 0 and the variable margin is set to 0. So in this case, the min() statement is not necessary and we can directly set the variable margin to 0. Signed-off-by:
Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@tencent.com> Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587479661-27237-1-git-send-email-kaixuxia@tencent.comSigned-off-by:
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Yafang Shao authored
There's a new workingset counter introduced in commit 1899ad18 ("mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing"). With the help of this counter we can know the workingset is transitioning or thrashing. To leverage the benifit of this counter to memcg, we should introduce it into memory.stat. Then we could know the workingset of the workload inside a memcg better. Bellow is the verification of this new counter in memory.stat. Read a file into the memory and then read it again to make these pages be active. The size of this file is 1G. (memory.max is greater than file size) The counters in memory.stat will be inactive_file 0 active_file 1073639424 workingset_refault 0 workingset_activate 0 workingset_restore 0 workingset_nodereclaim 0 Trigger the memcg reclaim by setting a lower value to memory.high, and then some pages will be demoted into inactive list, and then some pages in the inactive list will be evicted into the storage. inactive_file 498094080 active_file 310063104 workingset_refault 0 workingset_activate 0 workingset_restore 0 workingset_nodereclaim 0 Then recover the memory.high and read the file into memory again. As a result of it, the transitioning will occur. Bellow is the result of this transitioning, inactive_file 498094080 active_file 575397888 workingset_refault 64746 workingset_activate 64746 workingset_restore 64746 workingset_nodereclaim 0 Signed-off-by:
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Miaohe Lin authored
Since commit 8d93b41c ("mm: Convert add_to_swap_cache to XArray"), __add_to_swap_cache and add_to_swap_cache are combined into one function. There is no __add_to_swap_cache() anymore. Signed-off-by:
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1590810326-2493-1-git-send-email-linmiaohe@huawei.comSigned-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix the heading and Size/Used/Priority field alignments in /proc/swaps. If the Size and/or Used value is >= 10000000 (8 bytes), then the alignment by using tab characters is broken. This patch maintains the use of tabs for alignment. If spaces are preferred, we can just use a Field Width specifier for the bytes and inuse fields. That way those fields don't have to be a multiple of 8 bytes in width. E.g., with a field width of 12, both Size and Used would always fit on the first line of an 80-column wide terminal (only Priority would be on the second line). There are actually 2 problems: heading alignment and field width. On an xterm, if Used is 7 bytes in length, the tab does nothing, and the display is like this, with no space/tab between the Used and Priority fields. (ugh) Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda8 partition 16779260 2023012-1 To be clear, if one does 'cat /proc/swaps >/tmp/proc.swaps', it does look different, like so: Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda8 partition 16779260 2086988 -1 Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Huang Ying authored
In some swap scalability test, it is found that there are heavy lock contention on swap cache even if we have split one swap cache radix tree per swap device to one swap cache radix tree every 64 MB trunk in commit 4b3ef9da ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB trunks"). The reason is as follow. After the swap device becomes fragmented so that there's no free swap cluster, the swap device will be scanned linearly to find the free swap slots. swap_info_struct->cluster_next is the next scanning base that is shared by all CPUs. So nearby free swap slots will be allocated for different CPUs. The probability for multiple CPUs to operate on the same 64 MB trunk is high. This causes the lock contention on the swap cache. To solve the issue, in this patch, for SSD swap device, a percpu version next scanning base (cluster_next_cpu) is added. Every CPU will use its own per-cpu next scanning base. And after finishing scanning a 64MB trunk, the per-cpu scanning base will be changed to the beginning of another randomly selected 64MB trunk. In this way, the probability for multiple CPUs to operate on the same 64 MB trunk is reduced greatly. Thus the lock contention is reduced too. For HDD, because sequential access is more important for IO performance, the original shared next scanning base is used. To test the patch, we have run 16-process pmbench memory benchmark on a 2-socket server machine with 48 cores. One ram disk is configured as the swap device per socket. The pmbench working-set size is much larger than the available memory so that swapping is triggered. The memory read/write ratio is 80/20 and the accessing pattern is random. In the original implementation, the lock contention on the swap cache is heavy. The perf profiling data of the lock contention code path is as following, _raw_spin_lock_irq.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list: 7.91 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list: 7.11 _raw_spin_lock.swapcache_free_entries.free_swap_slot.__swap_entry_free: 2.51 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave.swap_cgroup_record.mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap: 1.66 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 1.29 _raw_spin_lock.free_pcppages_bulk.drain_pages_zone.drain_pages: 1.03 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_active_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 0.93 After applying this patch, it becomes, _raw_spin_lock.swapcache_free_entries.free_swap_slot.__swap_entry_free: 3.58 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 2.3 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave.swap_cgroup_record.mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap: 2.26 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_active_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 1.8 _raw_spin_lock.free_pcppages_bulk.drain_pages_zone.drain_pages: 1.19 The lock contention on the swap cache is almost eliminated. And the pmbench score increases 18.5%. The swapin throughput increases 18.7% from 2.96 GB/s to 3.51 GB/s. While the swapout throughput increases 18.5% from 2.99 GB/s to 3.54 GB/s. We need really fast disk to show the benefit. I have tried this on 2 Intel P3600 NVMe disks. The performance improvement is only about 1%. The improvement should be better on the faster disks, such as Intel Optane disk. [ying.huang@intel.com: fix cluster_next_cpu allocation and freeing, per Daniel] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200525002648.336325-1-ying.huang@intel.com [ying.huang@intel.com: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529010840.928819-1-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by:
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520031502.175659-1-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by:
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Huang Ying authored
To improve the code readability and take advantage of the common implementation. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
__swap_entry_free() always frees 1 entry. Let's remove the usage. Signed-off-by:
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
swap_info_struct->swap_map[] encodes some flag and count. And to do some condition check, it also introduces some special values. Currently those macros are defined with some magic order, which makes audience hard to understand the exact meaning. This patch split those macros into three categories: flag special value for first swap_map special value for continued swap_map May this help audiences a little. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak capitalization in comments] Signed-off-by: -
Huang Ying authored
Now, the scalability of swap code will drop much when the swap device becomes fragmented, because the swap slots allocation batching stops working. To solve the problem, in this patch, we will try to scan a little more swap slots with restricted effort to batch the swap slots allocation even if the swap device is fragmented. Test shows that the benchmark score can increase up to 37.1% with the patch. Details are as follows. The swap code has a per-cpu cache of swap slots. These batch swap space allocations to improve swap subsystem scaling. In the following code path, add_to_swap() get_swap_page() refill_swap_slots_cache() get_swap_pages() scan_swap_map_slots() scan_swap_map_slots() and get_swap_pages() can return multiple swap slots for each call. These slots will be cached in the per-CPU swap slots cache, so that several following swap slot requests will be fulfilled there to avoid the lock contention in the lower level swap space allocation/freeing code path. But this only works when there are free swap clusters. If a swap device becomes so fragmented that there's no free swap clusters, scan_swap_map_slots() and get_swap_pages() will return only one swap slot for each call in the above code path. Effectively, this falls back to the situation before the swap slots cache was introduced, the heavy lock contention on the swap related locks kills the scalability. Why does it work in this way? Because the swap device could be large, and the free swap slot scanning could be quite time consuming, to avoid taking too much time to scanning free swap slots, the conservative method was used. In fact, this can be improved via scanning a little more free slots with strictly restricted effort. Which is implemented in this patch. In scan_swap_map_slots(), after the first free swap slot is gotten, we will try to scan a little more, but only if we haven't scanned too many slots (< LATENCY_LIMIT). That is, the added scanning latency is strictly restricted. To test the patch, we have run 16-process pmbench memory benchmark on a 2-socket server machine with 48 cores. Multiple ram disks are configured as the swap devices. The pmbench working-set size is much larger than the available memory so that swapping is triggered. The memory read/write ratio is 80/20 and the accessing pattern is random, so the swap space becomes highly fragmented during the test. In the original implementation, the lock contention on swap related locks is very heavy. The perf profiling data of the lock contention code path is as following, _raw_spin_lock.get_swap_pages.get_swap_page.add_to_swap: 21.03 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 1.92 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_active_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 1.72 _raw_spin_lock.free_pcppages_bulk.drain_pages_zone.drain_pages: 0.69 While after applying this patch, it becomes, _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 4.89 _raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_active_list.shrink_lruvec.shrink_node: 3.85 _raw_spin_lock.free_pcppages_bulk.drain_pages_zone.drain_pages: 1.1 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave.pagevec_lru_move_fn.__lru_cache_add.do_swap_page: 0.88 That is, the lock contention on the swap locks is eliminated. And the pmbench score increases 37.1%. The swapin throughput increases 45.7% from 2.02 GB/s to 2.94 GB/s. While the swapout throughput increases 45.3% from 2.04 GB/s to 2.97 GB/s. Signed-off-by:Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427030023.264780-1-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
There are two duplicate code to handle the case when there is no available swap entry. To avoid this, we can compare tmp and max first and let the second guard do its job. No functional change is expected. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
If tmp is bigger or equal to max, we would jump to new_cluster. Return true directly. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
This is not necessary to use the variable found_free to record the status. Just check tmp and max is enough. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
scan_swap_map_slots() is only called by scan_swap_map() and get_swap_pages(). Both ensure nr would not exceed SWAP_BATCH. Just remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
Use min3() to simplify the comparison and make it more self-explaining. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
Now we can see there is redundant goto for SSD case. In these two places, we can just let the code walk through to the correct tag instead of explicitly jump to it. Let's remove them for better readability. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
The code shows if this is ssd, it will jump to specific tag and skip the following code for non-ssd. Let's use "else if" to explicitly show the mutually exclusion for ssd/non-ssd to reduce ambiguity. Signed-off-by:
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Wei Yang authored
scan_swap_map_slots() is used to iterate swap_map[] array for an available swap entry. While after several optimizations, e.g. for ssd case, the logic of this function is a little not easy to catch. This patchset tries to clean up the logic a little: * shows the ssd/non-ssd case is handled mutually exclusively * remove some unnecessary goto for ssd case This patch (of 3): When si->cluster_nr is zero, function would reach done and return. The increased offset would not be used any more. This means we can move the offset increment into the if clause. This brings a further code cleanup possibility. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Righi authored
In unuse_pte_range() we blindly swap-in pages without checking if the swap entry is already present in the swap cache. By doing this, the hit/miss ratio used by the swap readahead heuristic is not properly updated and this leads to non-optimal performance during swapoff. Tracing the distribution of the readahead size returned by the swap readahead heuristic during swapoff shows that a small readahead size is used most of the time as if we had only misses (this happens both with cluster and vma readahead), for example: r::swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset):unsigned long:$retval COUNT EVENT 36948 $retval = 8 44151 $retval = 4 49290 $retval = 1 527771 $retval = 2 Checking if the swap entry is present in the swap cache, instead, allows to properly update the readahead statistics and the heuristic behaves in a better way during swapoff, selecting a bigger readahead size: r::swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset):unsigned long:$retval COUNT EVENT 1618 $retval = 1 4960 $retval = 2 41315 $retval = 4 103521 $retval = 8 In terms of swapoff performance the result is the following: Testing environment =================== - Host: CPU: 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-8565U (quad-core, 8MB cache) HDD: PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB MEM: 16GB - Guest (kvm): 8GB of RAM virtio block driver 16GB swap file on ext4 (/swapfile) Test case ========= - allocate 85% of memory - `systemctl hibernate` to force all the pages to be swapped-out to the swap file - resume the system - measure the time that swapoff takes to complete: # /usr/bin/time swapoff /swapfile Result (swapoff time) ====== 5.6 vanilla 5.6 w/ this patch ----------- ----------------- cluster-readahead 22.09s 12.19s vma-readahead 18.20s 15.33s Conclusion ========== The specific use case this patch is addressing is to improve swapoff performance in cloud environments when a VM has been hibernated, resumed and all the memory needs to be forced back to RAM by disabling swap. This change allows to better exploits the advantages of the readahead heuristic during swapoff and this improvement allows to to speed up the resume process of such VMs. [andrea.righi@canonical.com: update changelog] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418084705.GA147642@xps-13Signed-off-by:Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Qian Cai authored
"prev_offset" is a static variable in swapin_nr_pages() that can be accessed concurrently with only mmap_sem held in read mode as noticed by KCSAN, BUG: KCSAN: data-race in swap_cluster_readahead / swap_cluster_readahead write to 0xffffffff92763830 of 8 bytes by task 14795 on cpu 17: swap_cluster_readahead+0x2a6/0x5e0 swapin_readahead+0x92/0x8dc do_swap_page+0x49b/0xf20 __handle_mm_fault+0xcfb/0xd70 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x715 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by (dnf)/14795: #0: ffff897bd2e98858 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x715 do_user_addr_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1405 (inlined by) do_page_fault at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1535 irq event stamp: 83493 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x365/0x589 irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 read to 0xffffffff92763830 of 8 bytes by task 1 on cpu 22: swap_cluster_readahead+0xfd/0x5e0 swapin_readahead+0x92/0x8dc do_swap_page+0x49b/0xf20 __handle_mm_fault+0xcfb/0xd70 handle_mm_fault+0xfc/0x2f0 do_page_fault+0x263/0x715 page_fault+0x34/0x40 1 lock held by systemd/1: #0: ffff897c38f14858 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_page_fault+0x143/0x715 irq event stamp: 43530289 count_memcg_event_mm+0x1a6/0x270 count_memcg_event_mm+0x119/0x270 __do_softirq+0x365/0x589 irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0 Signed-off-by:Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by:
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chenqiwu authored
Use list_{prev,next}_entry() instead of list_entry() for better code readability. Signed-off-by:chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miles Chen authored
Describe the caller's responsibilities when passing FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586915606.5647.5.camel@mtkswgap22Signed-off-by:
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John Hubbard authored
This code was using get_user_pages*(), in a "Case 2" scenario (DMA/RDMA), using the categorization from [1]. That means that it's time to convert the get_user_pages*() + put_page() calls to pin_user_pages*() + unpin_user_pages() calls. There is some helpful background in [2]: basically, this is a small part of fixing a long-standing disconnect between pinning pages, and file systems' use of those pages. [1] Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst [2] "Explicit pinning of user-space pages": https://lwn.net/Articles/807108/Signed-off-by:John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
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John Hubbard authored
Introduce pin_user_pages_unlocked(), which is nearly identical to the get_user_pages_unlocked() that it wraps, except that it sets FOLL_PIN and rejects FOLL_GET. Signed-off-by:
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Souptick Joarder authored
This patch is an attempt to update the documentation. - Add/ remove extra * based on type of function static/global. - Add description for functions and their input arguments. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s@/*@/**@] Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a COMMIT request succeeds. If the COMMIT fails, the page will be re-written. These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a 'reclaimable' count. This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g. releasepage() used to send a COMMIT). However now that all writes generated by ->writepages() will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9 ("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more sense to treat them as writeback pages. So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK. A particular effect of this change is that when wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do about them anyway). Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput. With this patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average. Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as zero. static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this counter no longer report it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by:
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by:
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> [mm] Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.nameSigned-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi). The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been throttled. The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed, but it is being thottled and cannot write. This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally, independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was. Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial heuristics. This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer reliable. The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi. This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal to) the free-run threshold for that bdi. This ensures it will always be able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock. In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag. This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi. So this patch - renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE, - removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and - If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded. Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads. This patch does *not* change the behvaiour for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd and loop tasks. I don't know what is wanted for realtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Chao Yu authored
Commit 64081362 ("mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock") left unused variable, remove it. Signed-off-by:
Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528033740.17269-1-yuchao0@huawei.comSigned-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
We no longer return 0 here and the comment doesn't tell us anything that we don't already know (SIGBUS is a pretty good indicator that things didn't work out). Signed-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529123243.20640-1-willy@infradead.orgSigned-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Change it to inline function to make callers use the proper argument. And no need for it to be macro per Andrew's comment [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518221235.1fa32c38e5766113f78e3f0d@linux-foundation.org/Signed-off-by:
Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
We can cleanup code a little by call detach_page_private here. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use attach_page_private(), per Dave] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521225220.GV2005@dread.disaster.area [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clear PagePrivate] Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
All the callers have replaced attach_page_buffers with the new function attach_page_private, so remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Since the new pair function is introduced, we can call them to clean the code in orangefs. Signed-off-by:
Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> Reviewed-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Call the new function since attach_page_buffers will be removed. Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Since the new pair function is introduced, we can call them to clean the code in iomap. Signed-off-by:
Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200517214718.468-7-guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.comSigned-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Since the new pair function is introduced, we can call them to clean the code in f2fs.h. Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Since the new pair function is introduced, we can call them to clean the code in buffer.c. Signed-off-by:
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Guoqing Jiang authored
Since the new pair function is introduced, we can call them to clean the code in btrfs. Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200517214718.468-4-guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.comSigned-off-by:
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