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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:42:08 -0700
From: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/9] mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:51 AM Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
>
> This is mostly derived from a patch from Yang Shi:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1560468577-101178-10-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com/
>
> Add code to the reclaim path (shrink_page_list()) to "demote" data
> to another NUMA node instead of discarding the data. This always
> avoids the cost of I/O needed to read the page back in and sometimes
> avoids the writeout cost when the pagee is dirty.
>
> Note: This just adds the start of infratructure for migration. It is
> actually disabled next to the FIXME in migrate_demote_page_ok().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> ---
>
> b/include/linux/migrate.h | 2
> b/mm/vmscan.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN include/linux/migrate.h~demote-with-migrate_pages include/linux/migrate.h
> --- a/include/linux/migrate.h~demote-with-migrate_pages 2020-08-18 11:36:52.916583179 -0700
> +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h 2020-08-18 11:36:52.923583179 -0700
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ enum migrate_reason {
> MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND,
> MR_NUMA_MISPLACED,
> MR_CONTIG_RANGE,
> + MR_DEMOTION,
> MR_TYPES
> };
>
> @@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ struct migrate_vma {
> int migrate_vma_setup(struct migrate_vma *args);
> void migrate_vma_pages(struct migrate_vma *migrate);
> void migrate_vma_finalize(struct migrate_vma *migrate);
> +int next_demotion_node(int node);
>
> #endif /* CONFIG_MIGRATION */
>
> diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~demote-with-migrate_pages mm/vmscan.c
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c~demote-with-migrate_pages 2020-08-18 11:36:52.919583179 -0700
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c 2020-08-18 11:36:52.924583179 -0700
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
> #include <linux/kthread.h>
> #include <linux/freezer.h>
> #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> +#include <linux/migrate.h>
> #include <linux/delayacct.h>
> #include <linux/sysctl.h>
> #include <linux/oom.h>
> @@ -1040,6 +1041,24 @@ static enum page_references page_check_r
> return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
> }
>
> +bool migrate_demote_page_ok(struct page *page, struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + int next_nid = next_demotion_node(page_to_nid(page));
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageHuge(page), page);
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
> +
I think we'd better rule out MADV_FREE pages since it doesn't make too
much sense to migrate MADV_FREE pages, they can be just discarded.
> + if (next_nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> + return false;
> + if (PageTransHuge(page) && !thp_migration_supported())
> + return false;
> +
> + // FIXME: actually enable this later in the series
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> +
> /* Check if a page is dirty or under writeback */
> static void page_check_dirty_writeback(struct page *page,
> bool *dirty, bool *writeback)
> @@ -1070,6 +1089,66 @@ static void page_check_dirty_writeback(s
> mapping->a_ops->is_dirty_writeback(page, dirty, writeback);
> }
>
> +static struct page *alloc_demote_page(struct page *page, unsigned long node)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Try to fail quickly if memory on the target node is not
> + * available. Leaving out __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS helps with
> + * this. If the desintation node is full, we want kswapd to
> + * run there so that its pages will get reclaimed and future
> + * migration attempts may succeed.
> + */
> + gfp_t flags = (__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_NORETRY |
> + __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_THISNODE |
> + __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM);
> + /* HugeTLB pages should not be on the LRU */
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(PageHuge(page));
> +
> + if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
> + struct page *thp;
> +
> + flags |= __GFP_COMP;
> +
> + thp = alloc_pages_node(node, flags, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> + if (!thp)
> + return NULL;
> + prep_transhuge_page(thp);
> + return thp;
> + }
> +
> + return __alloc_pages_node(node, flags, 0);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Take pages on @demote_list and attempt to demote them to
> + * another node. Pages which are not demoted are added to
> + * @ret_pages.
> + */
> +static unsigned int demote_page_list(struct list_head *ret_list,
> + struct list_head *demote_pages,
> + struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> + struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + int target_nid = next_demotion_node(pgdat->node_id);
> + unsigned int nr_succeeded = 0;
> + int err;
> +
> + if (list_empty(demote_pages))
> + return 0;
> +
> + /* Demotion ignores all cpuset and mempolicy settings */
> + err = migrate_pages(demote_pages, alloc_demote_page, NULL,
> + target_nid, MIGRATE_ASYNC, MR_DEMOTION,
> + &nr_succeeded);
> +
> + if (err) {
> + putback_movable_pages(demote_pages);
> + list_splice(ret_list, demote_pages);
> + }
> +
> + return nr_succeeded;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages
> */
> @@ -1082,6 +1161,7 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(str
> {
> LIST_HEAD(ret_pages);
> LIST_HEAD(free_pages);
> + LIST_HEAD(demote_pages);
> unsigned int nr_reclaimed = 0;
> unsigned int pgactivate = 0;
>
> @@ -1237,6 +1317,16 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(str
> }
>
> /*
> + * Before reclaiming the page, try to relocate
> + * its contents to another node.
> + */
> + if (migrate_demote_page_ok(page, sc)) {
> + list_add(&page->lru, &demote_pages);
> + unlock_page(page);
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
> * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
> * Lazyfree page could be freed directly
> @@ -1484,6 +1574,9 @@ keep:
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page), page);
> }
>
> + /* Migrate pages selected for demotion */
> + nr_reclaimed += demote_page_list(&ret_pages, &demote_pages, pgdat, sc);
> +
> pgactivate = stat->nr_activate[0] + stat->nr_activate[1];
>
> mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(&free_pages);
> _
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