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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:59:42 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, aarcange@...hat.com, riel@...hat.com,
iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, xiexiuqi@...wei.com, gorcunov@...nvz.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mgorman@...e.de, rientjes@...gle.com,
aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, hughd@...gle.com,
hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.cz, boaz@...xistor.com,
raindel@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 3/3] mm: make swapin readahead to improve thp collapse
rate
On 07/13/2015 10:28 PM, Ebru Akagunduz wrote:
> This patch makes swapin readahead to improve thp collapse rate.
> When khugepaged scanned pages, there can be a few of the pages
> in swap area.
>
> With the patch THP can collapse 4kB pages into a THP when
> there are up to max_ptes_swap swap ptes in a 2MB range.
>
> The patch was tested with a test program that allocates
> 800MB of memory, writes to it, and then sleeps. I force
> the system to swap out all. Afterwards, the test program
> touches the area by writing, it skips a page in each
> 20 pages of the area.
>
> Without the patch, system did not swap in readahead.
> THP rate was %47 of the program of the memory, it
> did not change over time.
>
> With this patch, after 10 minutes of waiting khugepaged had
> collapsed %99 of the program's memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Use FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY|FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT flag
> instead of 0x0 when called do_swap_page from
> __collapse_huge_page_swapin (Rik van Riel)
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Catch VM_FAULT_HWPOISON and VM_FAULT_OOM return cases
> in __collapse_huge_page_swapin (Kirill A. Shutemov)
>
> Test results:
>
> After swapped out
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Anonymous | AnonHugePages | Swap | Fraction |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> With patch | 267128 kB | 266240 kB | 532876 kB | %99 |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Without patch | 238160 kB | 235520 kB | 561844 kB | %98 |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> After swapped in
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Anonymous | AnonHugePages | Swap | Fraction |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> With patch | 533876 kB | 530432 kB | 266128 kB | %99 |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Without patch | 499956 kB | 235520 kB | 300048 kB | %47 |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++
> include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index eacf348..603f3ba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
> #define MM_COLLAPSE_ISOLATE_FAIL 5
> #define MM_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE 2
>
> +extern int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address, pte_t *page_table, pmd_t *pmd,
> + unsigned int flags, pte_t orig_pte);
> +
> struct mempolicy;
> struct anon_vma;
> struct anon_vma_chain;
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
> index b6bdcc4..8d34086 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
> @@ -98,6 +98,30 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_collapse_huge_page_isolate,
> __entry->ret)
> );
>
> +TRACE_EVENT(mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin,
> +
> + TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, int swap_pte, int ret),
> +
> + TP_ARGS(mm, swap_pte, ret),
> +
> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
> + __field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
> + __field(int, swap_pte)
> + __field(int, ret)
> + ),
> +
> + TP_fast_assign(
> + __entry->mm = mm;
> + __entry->swap_pte = swap_pte;
> + __entry->ret = ret;
> + ),
> +
> + TP_printk("mm=%p, swap_pte=%d, ret=%d",
> + __entry->mm,
> + __entry->swap_pte,
> + __entry->ret)
> +);
swap_pte is weird name for the number of swapped-in pages, how about
"swapped_in" ?
> +
> #endif /* __HUGE_MEMORY_H */
> #include <trace/define_trace.h>
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index b4cef9d..b372b40 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2511,6 +2511,45 @@ static bool hugepage_vma_check(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> return true;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Bring missing pages in from swap, to complete THP collapse.
> + * Only done if khugepaged_scan_pmd believes it is worthwhile.
> + *
> + * Called and returns without pte mapped or spinlocks held,
> + * but with mmap_sem held to protect against vma changes.
> + */
> +
> +static void __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd,
> + pte_t *pte)
> +{
> + unsigned long _address;
> + pte_t pteval = *pte;
> + int swap_pte = 0, ret = 0;
Same concern about swap_pte name.
> +
> + pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
> + for (_address = address; _address < address + HPAGE_PMD_NR*PAGE_SIZE;
> + pte++, _address += PAGE_SIZE) {
> + pteval = *pte;
> + if (is_swap_pte(pteval)) {
> + swap_pte++;
Move the increment towards the end of the "if" and then it counts what
was successfully swapped in :)
> + ret = do_swap_page(mm, vma, _address, pte, pmd,
> + FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY|FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT,
> + pteval);
> + if (ret == VM_FAULT_HWPOISON || ret == VM_FAULT_OOM) {
> + trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma->vm_start, swap_pte, 0);
The vma->vm_start should be removed otherwise this won't compile.
> + return;
> + }
> + /* pte is unmapped now, we need to map it */
> + pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, _address);
> + }
> + }
> + pte--;
> + pte_unmap(pte);
> + trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, swap_pte, 1);
> +}
> +
> static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
> unsigned long address,
> struct page **hpage,
> @@ -2584,6 +2623,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
>
> anon_vma_lock_write(vma->anon_vma);
>
> + __collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address, pmd, pte);
> +
> pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
> pte_ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 67afe75..eec23a2 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2443,7 +2443,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_mapping_range);
> * We return with the mmap_sem locked or unlocked in the same cases
> * as does filemap_fault().
> */
> -static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, pte_t *page_table, pmd_t *pmd,
> unsigned int flags, pte_t orig_pte)
> {
>
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