linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/24] mm/swap: avoid an duplicated swap cache lookup for SYNCHRONOUS

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Message-ID: <CAMgjq7DsUBr4CgrJi9VKTgU3_tyrD0c5dLS_zU7akm31PQy-5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:08:03 +0800
From:   Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>
To:     Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/24] mm/swap: avoid an duplicated swap cache lookup for
 SYNCHRONOUS_IO device

Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org> 于2023年11月22日周三 01:18写道：
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 11:48 AM Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> >
> > When a xa_value is returned by the cache lookup, keep it to be used
> > later for workingset refault check instead of doing the looking up again
> > in swapin_no_readahead.
> >
> > This does have a side effect of making swapoff also triggers workingset
> > check, but should be fine since swapoff does effect the workload in many
> > ways already.
>
> I need to sleep on it a bit to see if this will create another problem or not.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/swap_state.c | 10 ++++------
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> > index e057c79fb06f..51de2a0412df 100644
> > --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> > +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> > @@ -872,7 +872,6 @@ static struct page *swapin_no_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >  {
> >         struct folio *folio;
> >         struct page *page;
> > -       void *shadow = NULL;
> >
> >         page = alloc_pages_mpol(gfp_mask, 0, mpol, ilx, numa_node_id());
> >         folio = (struct folio *)page;
> > @@ -888,10 +887,6 @@ static struct page *swapin_no_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >
> >                 mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap(entry);
> >
> > -               shadow = get_shadow_from_swap_cache(entry);
> > -               if (shadow)
> > -                       workingset_refault(folio, shadow);
> > -
> >                 folio_add_lru(folio);
> >
> >                 /* To provide entry to swap_readpage() */
> > @@ -922,11 +917,12 @@ struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >         enum swap_cache_result cache_result;
> >         struct swap_info_struct *si;
> >         struct mempolicy *mpol;
> > +       void *shadow = NULL;
> >         struct folio *folio;
> >         struct page *page;
> >         pgoff_t ilx;
> >
> > -       folio = swap_cache_get_folio(entry, vmf, NULL);
> > +       folio = swap_cache_get_folio(entry, vmf, &shadow);
> >         if (folio) {
> >                 page = folio_file_page(folio, swp_offset(entry));
> >                 cache_result = SWAP_CACHE_HIT;
> > @@ -938,6 +934,8 @@ struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >         if (swap_use_no_readahead(si, swp_offset(entry))) {
> >                 page = swapin_no_readahead(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, vmf->vma->vm_mm);
> >                 cache_result = SWAP_CACHE_BYPASS;
> > +               if (shadow)
> > +                       workingset_refault(page_folio(page), shadow);
>
> It is inconsistent why other flavors of readahead do not do the
> workingset_refault here.

Because of the readaheads and swapcache. Every readahead pages need to
be checked by workingset_refault with a different shadow (and so a
different xarray entry search is needed). And since other swapin path
need to insert page into swapcache, they will do extra xarray
search/insert anyway so this optimization won't work.

> I suggest keeping the workingset_refault in swapin_no_readahead() and
> pass the shadow argument in.

That sounds good to me.