linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: free idle swap cache page after COW

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Message-ID: <YLY2ayrBpvwd29MA@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:30:19 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: free idle swap cache page after COW

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 01:31:43PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> With commit 09854ba94c6a ("mm: do_wp_page() simplification"), after
> COW, the idle swap cache page (neither the page nor the corresponding
> swap entry is mapped by any process) will be left in the LRU list,
> even if it's in the active list or the head of the inactive list.  So,
> the page reclaimer may take quite some overhead to reclaim these
> actually unused pages.
> 
> To help the page reclaiming, in this patch, after COW, the idle swap
> cache page will be tried to be freed.  To avoid to introduce much
> overhead to the hot COW code path,
> 
> a) there's almost zero overhead for non-swap case via checking
>    PageSwapCache() firstly.
> 
> b) the page lock is acquired via trylock only.
> 
> To test the patch, we used pmbench memory accessing benchmark with
> working-set larger than available memory on a 2-socket Intel server
> with a NVMe SSD as swap device.  Test results shows that the pmbench
> score increases up to 23.8% with the decreased size of swap cache and
> swapin throughput.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> # use free_swap_cache()
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>