linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] page_idle: Drain all LRU pagevec before idle tracking

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Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 10:43:57 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brendan Gregg <bgregg@...flix.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christian Hansen <chansen3@...co.com>, dancol@...gle.com,
        fmayer@...gle.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, joelaf@...gle.com,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
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        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] page_idle: Drain all LRU pagevec before idle
 tracking

On Mon 05-08-19 13:04:50, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> During idle tracking, we see that sometimes faulted anon pages are in
> pagevec but are not drained to LRU. Idle tracking considers pages only
> on LRU. Drain all CPU's LRU before starting idle tracking.

Please expand on why does this matter enough to introduce a potentially
expensinve draining which has to schedule a work on each CPU and wait
for them to finish.

> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
> ---
>  mm/page_idle.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_idle.c b/mm/page_idle.c
> index a5b00d63216c..2972367a599f 100644
> --- a/mm/page_idle.c
> +++ b/mm/page_idle.c
> @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ static ssize_t page_idle_bitmap_read(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
>  	unsigned long pfn, end_pfn;
>  	int bit, ret;
>  
> +	lru_add_drain_all();
> +
>  	ret = page_idle_get_frames(pos, count, NULL, &pfn, &end_pfn);
>  	if (ret == -ENXIO)
>  		return 0;  /* Reads beyond max_pfn do nothing */
> @@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ static ssize_t page_idle_bitmap_write(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
>  	unsigned long pfn, end_pfn;
>  	int bit, ret;
>  
> +	lru_add_drain_all();
> +
>  	ret = page_idle_get_frames(pos, count, NULL, &pfn, &end_pfn);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> @@ -428,6 +432,8 @@ ssize_t page_idle_proc_generic(struct file *file, char __user *ubuff,
>  	walk.private = &priv;
>  	walk.mm = mm;
>  
> +	lru_add_drain_all();
> +
>  	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.22.0.770.g0f2c4a37fd-goog

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs