linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] khugepaged: Do not stop collapse if less than half PTEs are referenced

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Message-Id: <20200413100447.20073-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:04:43 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] khugepaged: Do not stop collapse if less than half PTEs are referenced

__collapse_huge_page_swapin() checks the number of referenced PTE to
decide if the memory range is hot enough to justify swapin.

We have few problems with the approach:

 - It is way too late: we can do the check much earlier and safe time.
   khugepaged_scan_pmd() already knows if we have any pages to swap in
   and number of referenced page.

 - It stops collapse altogether if there's not enough referenced pages,
   not only swappingin.

Fix it by making the right check early. We also can avoid additional
page table scanning if khugepaged_scan_pmd() haven't found any swap
entries.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: 0db501f7a34c ("mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative")
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 25 ++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 99bab7e4d05b..5968ec5ddd6b 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -902,11 +902,6 @@ static bool __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		.pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, address),
 	};
 
-	/* we only decide to swapin, if there is enough young ptes */
-	if (referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR/2) {
-		trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, swapped_in, referenced, 0);
-		return false;
-	}
 	vmf.pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
 	for (; vmf.address < address + HPAGE_PMD_NR*PAGE_SIZE;
 			vmf.pte++, vmf.address += PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -946,7 +941,7 @@ static bool __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
 static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				   unsigned long address,
 				   struct page **hpage,
-				   int node, int referenced)
+				   int node, int referenced, int unmapped)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd, _pmd;
 	pte_t *pte;
@@ -1003,7 +998,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	 * If it fails, we release mmap_sem and jump out_nolock.
 	 * Continuing to collapse causes inconsistency.
 	 */
-	if (!__collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address, pmd, referenced)) {
+	if (unmapped && !__collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address,
+				pmd, referenced)) {
 		mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true);
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		goto out_nolock;
@@ -1214,22 +1210,21 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		    mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, address))
 			referenced++;
 	}
-	if (writable) {
-		if (referenced) {
+	if (!writable) {
+		result = SCAN_PAGE_RO;
+	} else if (!referenced || (unmapped && referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR/2)) {
+		result = SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE;
+	} else {
 			result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
 			ret = 1;
-		} else {
-			result = SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE;
-		}
-	} else {
-		result = SCAN_PAGE_RO;
 	}
 out_unmap:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
 	if (ret) {
 		node = khugepaged_find_target_node();
 		/* collapse_huge_page will return with the mmap_sem released */
-		collapse_huge_page(mm, address, hpage, node, referenced);
+		collapse_huge_page(mm, address, hpage, node,
+				referenced, unmapped);
 	}
 out:
 	trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, page, writable, referenced,
-- 
2.26.0