linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 10/11] mm: multigenerational lru: Kconfig

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Message-Id: <20210818063107.2696454-11-yuzhao@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:31:06 -0600
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        page-reclaim@...gle.com, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@...dex.ru>
Subject: [PATCH v4 10/11] mm: multigenerational lru: Kconfig

Add configuration options for the multigenerational lru.

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@...dex.ru>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 40a9bfcd5062..4cd257cfdf84 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -889,4 +889,63 @@ config IO_MAPPING
 config SECRETMEM
 	def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED
 
+# the multigenerational lru {
+config LRU_GEN
+	bool "Multigenerational LRU"
+	depends on MMU
+	# the following options may leave not enough spare bits in page->flags
+	depends on !MAXSMP && (64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
+	help
+	  A high performance LRU implementation to heavily overcommit workloads
+	  that are not IO bound. See Documentation/vm/multigen_lru.rst for
+	  details.
+
+	  Warning: do not enable this option unless you plan to use it because
+	  it introduces a small per-process and per-memcg and per-node memory
+	  overhead.
+
+config LRU_GEN_ENABLED
+	bool "Turn on by default"
+	depends on LRU_GEN
+	help
+	  The default value of /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled is 0. This option
+	  changes it to 1.
+
+	  Warning: the default value is the fast path. See
+	  Documentation/static-keys.txt for details.
+
+config LRU_GEN_STATS
+	bool "Full stats for debugging"
+	depends on LRU_GEN
+	help
+	  This option keeps full stats for each generation, which can be read
+	  from /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen_full.
+
+	  Warning: do not enable this option unless you plan to use it because
+	  it introduces an additional small per-process and per-memcg and
+	  per-node memory overhead.
+
+config NR_LRU_GENS
+	int "Max number of generations"
+	depends on LRU_GEN
+	range 4 31
+	default 7
+	help
+	  This will use order_base_2(N+1) spare bits from page flags.
+
+	  Warning: do not use numbers larger than necessary because each
+	  generation introduces a small per-node and per-memcg memory overhead.
+
+config TIERS_PER_GEN
+	int "Number of tiers per generation"
+	depends on LRU_GEN
+	range 2 5
+	default 4
+	help
+	  This will use N-2 spare bits from page flags.
+
+	  Larger values generally offer better protection to active pages under
+	  heavy buffered I/O workloads.
+# }
+
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