linux-kernel - Re: [v5 PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: check if swap backing device is congested or not

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:49:00 -0800
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     ying.huang@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...el.com, minchan@...nel.org,
        daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5 PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: check if swap backing device is
 congested or not

Hi Andrew,


How do you look these patches? They had been reviewed and the commit log 
has been updated per your and Daniel's comments.


Thanks,

Yang



On 1/3/19 11:27 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
> Swap readahead would read in a few pages regardless if the underlying
> device is busy or not.  It may incur long waiting time if the device is
> congested, and it may also exacerbate the congestion.
>
> Use inode_read_congested() to check if the underlying device is busy or
> not like what file page readahead does.  Get inode from swap_info_struct.
> Although we can add inode information in swap_address_space
> (address_space->host), it may lead some unexpected side effect, i.e.
> it may break mapping_cap_account_dirty().  Using inode from
> swap_info_struct seems simple and good enough.
>
> Just does the check in vma_cluster_readahead() since
> swap_vma_readahead() is just used for non-rotational device which
> much less likely has congestion than traditional HDD.
>
> Although swap slots may be consecutive on swap partition, it still may be
> fragmented on swap file. This check would help to reduce excessive stall
> for such case.
>
> The test with page_fault1 of will-it-scale (sometimes tracing may just
> show runtest.py that is the wrapper script of page_fault1), which basically
> launches NR_CPU threads to generate 128MB anonymous pages for each thread,
> on my virtual machine with congested HDD shows long tail latency is reduced
> significantly.
>
> Without the patch
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.311706: funcgraph_entry:      #57377.796 us |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.369103: funcgraph_entry:        5.642us   |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.369119: funcgraph_entry:      #1289.592 us |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.370411: funcgraph_entry:        4.957us   |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.370419: funcgraph_entry:        1.940us   |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.378847: funcgraph_entry:      #1411.385 us |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.380262: funcgraph_entry:        3.916us   |  do_swap_page();
>   page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.380275: funcgraph_entry:      #4287.751 us |  do_swap_page();
>
> With the patch
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.925911: funcgraph_entry:      #9870.146 us |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935785: funcgraph_entry:        9.802us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935799: funcgraph_entry:        3.551us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935806: funcgraph_entry:        2.142us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935853: funcgraph_entry:        6.938us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935864: funcgraph_entry:        3.765us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935871: funcgraph_entry:        3.600us   |  do_swap_page();
>        runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935878: funcgraph_entry:        7.202us   |  do_swap_page();
>
> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> v5: Elaborate more about the test case per Daniel
> v4: Added observed effects in the commit log per Andrew
> v3: Move inode deference under swap device type check per Tim Chen
> v2: Check the swap device type per Tim Chen
>
>   mm/swap_state.c | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index fd2f21e..78d500e 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -538,11 +538,18 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>   	bool do_poll = true, page_allocated;
>   	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
>   	unsigned long addr = vmf->address;
> +	struct inode *inode = NULL;
>   
>   	mask = swapin_nr_pages(offset) - 1;
>   	if (!mask)
>   		goto skip;
>   
> +	if (si->flags & (SWP_BLKDEV | SWP_FS)) {
> +		inode = si->swap_file->f_mapping->host;
> +		if (inode_read_congested(inode))
> +			goto skip;
> +	}
> +
>   	do_poll = false;
>   	/* Read a page_cluster sized and aligned cluster around offset. */
>   	start_offset = offset & ~mask;