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Message-ID: <CAHbLzkrpuB=YTHVXDdVUhqh11AiU2W53f8QsYetAEigEiA+m+w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:12:08 -0700
From: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim and compaction when too
may pages are isolated
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 2:01 AM Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net> wrote:
>
> Page reclaim throttles on congestion if too many parallel reclaim instances
> have isolated too many pages. This makes no sense, excessive parallelisation
> has nothing to do with writeback or congestion.
>
> This patch creates an additional workqueue to sleep on when too many
> pages are isolated. The throttled tasks are woken when the number
> of isolated pages is reduced or a timeout occurs. There may be
> some false positive wakeups for GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS callers but
> the tasks will throttle again if necessary.
>
> [shy828301@...il.com: Wake up from compaction context]
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
> [vbabka@...e.cz: Account number of throttled tasks only for writeback]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> ---
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 ++++--
> include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 4 +++-
> mm/compaction.c | 10 ++++++++--
> mm/internal.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
> mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++++-
> mm/vmscan.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
> 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index ef0a63ebd21d..58a25d42c31c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ enum lru_list {
>
> enum vmscan_throttle_state {
> VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK,
> + VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED,
> + NR_VMSCAN_THROTTLE,
> };
>
> #define for_each_lru(lru) for (lru = 0; lru < NR_LRU_LISTS; lru++)
> @@ -846,8 +848,8 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
> int node_id;
> wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait;
> wait_queue_head_t pfmemalloc_wait;
> - wait_queue_head_t reclaim_wait; /* wq for throttling reclaim */
> - atomic_t nr_reclaim_throttled; /* nr of throtted tasks */
> + wait_queue_head_t reclaim_wait[NR_VMSCAN_THROTTLE];
> + atomic_t nr_writeback_throttled;/* nr of writeback-throttled tasks */
> unsigned long nr_reclaim_start; /* nr pages written while throttled
> * when throttling started. */
> struct task_struct *kswapd; /* Protected by
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> index c317f9fe0d17..d4905bd9e9c4 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> @@ -28,10 +28,12 @@
> ) : "RECLAIM_WB_NONE"
>
> #define _VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK (1 << VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK)
> +#define _VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED (1 << VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED)
>
> #define show_throttle_flags(flags) \
> (flags) ? __print_flags(flags, "|", \
> - {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK"} \
> + {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK"}, \
> + {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED"} \
> ) : "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NONE"
>
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index bfc93da1c2c7..7359093d8ac0 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -761,6 +761,8 @@ isolate_freepages_range(struct compact_control *cc,
> /* Similar to reclaim, but different enough that they don't share logic */
> static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> {
> + bool too_many;
> +
> unsigned long active, inactive, isolated;
>
> inactive = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
> @@ -770,7 +772,11 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> isolated = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_FILE) +
> node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
>
> - return isolated > (inactive + active) / 2;
> + too_many = isolated > (inactive + active) / 2;
> + if (!too_many)
> + wake_throttle_isolated(pgdat);
> +
> + return too_many;
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -822,7 +828,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
> if (cc->mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC)
> return -EAGAIN;
>
> - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
> + reclaim_throttle(pgdat, VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, HZ/10);
>
> if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> return -EINTR;
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 90764d646e02..3461a1055975 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -39,12 +39,21 @@ void __acct_reclaim_writeback(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct page *page,
> static inline void acct_reclaim_writeback(struct page *page)
> {
> pg_data_t *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
> - int nr_throttled = atomic_read(&pgdat->nr_reclaim_throttled);
> + int nr_throttled = atomic_read(&pgdat->nr_writeback_throttled);
>
> if (nr_throttled)
> __acct_reclaim_writeback(pgdat, page, nr_throttled);
> }
>
> +static inline void wake_throttle_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> +{
> + wait_queue_head_t *wqh;
> +
> + wqh = &pgdat->reclaim_wait[VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED];
> + if (waitqueue_active(wqh))
> + wake_up_all(wqh);
> +}
> +
> vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf);
>
> void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *start_vma,
> @@ -120,6 +129,8 @@ extern unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn;
> */
> extern int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page);
> extern void putback_lru_page(struct page *page);
> +extern void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> + long timeout);
>
> /*
> * in mm/rmap.c:
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index d849ddfc1e51..78e538067651 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7389,6 +7389,8 @@ static void pgdat_init_kcompactd(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {}
>
> static void __meminit pgdat_init_internals(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> {
> + int i;
> +
> pgdat_resize_init(pgdat);
>
> pgdat_init_split_queue(pgdat);
> @@ -7396,7 +7398,9 @@ static void __meminit pgdat_init_internals(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>
> init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
> init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
> - init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->reclaim_wait);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < NR_VMSCAN_THROTTLE; i++)
> + init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->reclaim_wait[i]);
>
> pgdat_page_ext_init(pgdat);
> lruvec_init(&pgdat->__lruvec);
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 735b1f2b5d9e..29434d4fc1c7 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1006,12 +1006,12 @@ static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping,
> unlock_page(page);
> }
>
> -static void
> -reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> +void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> long timeout)
> {
> - wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &pgdat->reclaim_wait;
> + wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &pgdat->reclaim_wait[reason];
> long ret;
> + bool acct_writeback = (reason == VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK);
> DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
>
> /*
> @@ -1023,7 +1023,8 @@ reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> current->flags & (PF_IO_WORKER|PF_KTHREAD))
> return;
>
> - if (atomic_inc_return(&pgdat->nr_reclaim_throttled) == 1) {
> + if (acct_writeback &&
> + atomic_inc_return(&pgdat->nr_writeback_throttled) == 1) {
> WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->nr_reclaim_start,
> node_page_state(pgdat, NR_THROTTLED_WRITTEN));
> }
> @@ -1031,7 +1032,9 @@ reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> ret = schedule_timeout(timeout);
> finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
> - atomic_dec(&pgdat->nr_reclaim_throttled);
> +
> + if (acct_writeback)
> + atomic_dec(&pgdat->nr_writeback_throttled);
>
> trace_mm_vmscan_throttled(pgdat->node_id, jiffies_to_usecs(timeout),
> jiffies_to_usecs(timeout - ret),
> @@ -1061,7 +1064,7 @@ void __acct_reclaim_writeback(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct page *page,
> READ_ONCE(pgdat->nr_reclaim_start);
>
> if (nr_written > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * nr_throttled)
> - wake_up_all(&pgdat->reclaim_wait);
> + wake_up_all(&pgdat->reclaim_wait[VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK]);
> }
>
> /* possible outcome of pageout() */
> @@ -2176,6 +2179,7 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int file,
> struct scan_control *sc)
> {
> unsigned long inactive, isolated;
> + bool too_many;
>
> if (current_is_kswapd())
> return 0;
> @@ -2199,7 +2203,13 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int file,
> if ((sc->gfp_mask & (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)) == (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS))
> inactive >>= 3;
>
> - return isolated > inactive;
> + too_many = isolated > inactive;
> +
> + /* Wake up tasks throttled due to too_many_isolated. */
> + if (!too_many)
> + wake_throttle_isolated(pgdat);
> +
> + return too_many;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -2308,8 +2318,8 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> return 0;
>
> /* wait a bit for the reclaimer. */
> - msleep(100);
> stalled = true;
> + reclaim_throttle(pgdat, VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, HZ/10);
>
> /* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
> if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> @@ -4343,7 +4353,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
>
> WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_order, 0);
> WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd_highest_zoneidx, MAX_NR_ZONES);
> - atomic_set(&pgdat->nr_reclaim_throttled, 0);
> + atomic_set(&pgdat->nr_writeback_throttled, 0);
> for ( ; ; ) {
> bool ret;
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>
>
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