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Message-ID: <85b3e8f2-5982-3329-c20d-cf062b8da71e@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:13:11 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] mm: don't pass "enum lru_list" to lru list
 addition functions

On 1/22/21 11:05 PM, Yu Zhao wrote:
> The "enum lru_list" parameter to add_page_to_lru_list() and
> add_page_to_lru_list_tail() is redundant in the sense that it can
> be extracted from the "struct page" parameter by page_lru().

Okay, however, it means repeated extraction of a value that we already knew. The
result of compilation is rather sad. This is bloat-o-meter on mm/built-in.a
(without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, btw) between patch 2 and 5:

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 10/5 up/down: 1837/-60 (1777)
Function                                     old     new   delta
lru_deactivate_file_fn                       932    1368    +436
lru_lazyfree_fn.part                         629     953    +324
check_move_unevictable_pages                1171    1424    +253
__activate_page.part                         735     984    +249
lru_deactivate_fn.part                       593     822    +229
perf_trace_mm_lru_insertion                  458     560    +102
trace_event_raw_event_mm_lru_insertion       412     500     +88
__page_cache_release                         479     558     +79
release_pages                               1430    1499     +69
pagevec_move_tail_fn.part                    761     769      +8
isolate_lru_page                             471     470      -1
__bpf_trace_mm_lru_insertion                   7       5      -2
__traceiter_mm_lru_insertion                  55      47      -8
isolate_migratepages_block                  3200    3185     -15
__pagevec_lru_add_fn                        1092    1058     -34


> A caveat is that we need to make sure PageActive() or
> PageUnevictable() is correctly set or cleared before calling
> these two functions. And they are indeed.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201207220949.830352-4-yuzhao@google.com/
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm_inline.h |  8 ++++++--
>  mm/swap.c                 | 15 +++++++--------
>  mm/vmscan.c               |  6 ++----
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> index 2889741f450a..130ba3201d3f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
> @@ -106,15 +106,19 @@ static __always_inline enum lru_list page_lru(struct page *page)
>  }
>  
>  static __always_inline void add_page_to_lru_list(struct page *page,
> -				struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
> +				struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  {
> +	enum lru_list lru = page_lru(page);
> +
>  	update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, page_zonenum(page), thp_nr_pages(page));
>  	list_add(&page->lru, &lruvec->lists[lru]);
>  }
>  
>  static __always_inline void add_page_to_lru_list_tail(struct page *page,
> -				struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
> +				struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  {
> +	enum lru_list lru = page_lru(page);
> +
>  	update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, page_zonenum(page), thp_nr_pages(page));
>  	list_add_tail(&page->lru, &lruvec->lists[lru]);
>  }
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index 490553f3f9ef..4b058ef37add 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static void pagevec_move_tail_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  	if (!PageUnevictable(page)) {
>  		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
>  		ClearPageActive(page);
> -		add_page_to_lru_list_tail(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> +		add_page_to_lru_list_tail(page, lruvec);
>  		__count_vm_events(PGROTATED, thp_nr_pages(page));
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -313,8 +313,7 @@ static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  
>  		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
>  		SetPageActive(page);
> -		lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
> -		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> +		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  		trace_mm_lru_activate(page);
>  
>  		__count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, nr_pages);
> @@ -543,14 +542,14 @@ static void lru_deactivate_file_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  		 * It can make readahead confusing.  But race window
>  		 * is _really_ small and  it's non-critical problem.
>  		 */
> -		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> +		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  		SetPageReclaim(page);
>  	} else {
>  		/*
>  		 * The page's writeback ends up during pagevec
>  		 * We moves tha page into tail of inactive.
>  		 */
> -		add_page_to_lru_list_tail(page, lruvec, lru);
> +		add_page_to_lru_list_tail(page, lruvec);
>  		__count_vm_events(PGROTATED, nr_pages);
>  	}
>  
> @@ -570,7 +569,7 @@ static void lru_deactivate_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru + LRU_ACTIVE);
>  		ClearPageActive(page);
>  		ClearPageReferenced(page);
> -		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> +		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  
>  		__count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_pages);
>  		__count_memcg_events(lruvec_memcg(lruvec), PGDEACTIVATE,
> @@ -595,7 +594,7 @@ static void lru_lazyfree_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  		 * anonymous pages
>  		 */
>  		ClearPageSwapBacked(page);
> -		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  
>  		__count_vm_events(PGLAZYFREE, nr_pages);
>  		__count_memcg_events(lruvec_memcg(lruvec), PGLAZYFREE,
> @@ -1005,7 +1004,7 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec)
>  			__count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGCULLED, nr_pages);
>  	}
>  
> -	add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> +	add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  	trace_mm_lru_insertion(page, lru);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 19875660e8f8..09e4f97488c9 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1867,7 +1867,7 @@ static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  		 * inhibits memcg migration).
>  		 */
>  		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock(page, lruvec), page);
> -		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> +		add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  		nr_pages = thp_nr_pages(page);
>  		nr_moved += nr_pages;
>  		if (PageActive(page))
> @@ -4282,12 +4282,10 @@ void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct pagevec *pvec)
>  
>  		lruvec = relock_page_lruvec_irq(page, lruvec);
>  		if (page_evictable(page) && PageUnevictable(page)) {
> -			enum lru_list lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
> -
>  			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageActive(page), page);
>  			ClearPageUnevictable(page);
>  			del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, LRU_UNEVICTABLE);
> -			add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> +			add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec);
>  			pgrescued += nr_pages;
>  		}
>  		SetPageLRU(page);
> 

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