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Message-ID: <CAGsJ_4xocWy7PyHbgWhaK1gQeHADMAng3cFtnPHFW4MGB7qkBA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 17:06:03 +1300
From: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>,
Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] mm: vmscan: Avoid split during shrink_folio_list()
On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 2:10 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com> wrote:
>
> On 28/03/2024 08:18, Barry Song wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 3:45 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Now that swap supports storing all mTHP sizes, avoid splitting large
> >> folios before swap-out. This benefits performance of the swap-out path
> >> by eliding split_folio_to_list(), which is expensive, and also sets us
> >> up for swapping in large folios in a future series.
> >>
> >> If the folio is partially mapped, we continue to split it since we want
> >> to avoid the extra IO overhead and storage of writing out pages
> >> uneccessarily.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
> >> ---
> >> mm/vmscan.c | 9 +++++----
> >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> >> index 00adaf1cb2c3..293120fe54f3 100644
> >> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> >> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> >> @@ -1223,11 +1223,12 @@ static unsigned int shrink_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
> >> if (!can_split_folio(folio, NULL))
> >> goto activate_locked;
> >> /*
> >> - * Split folios without a PMD map right
> >> - * away. Chances are some or all of the
> >> - * tail pages can be freed without IO.
> >> + * Split partially mapped folios right
> >> + * away. We can free the unmapped pages
> >> + * without IO.
> >> */
> >> - if (!folio_entire_mapcount(folio) &&
> >> + if (data_race(!list_empty(
> >> + &folio->_deferred_list)) &&
> >> split_folio_to_list(folio,
> >> folio_list))
> >> goto activate_locked;
> >
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > Sorry for bringing up another minor issue at this late stage.
>
> No problem - I'd rather take a bit longer and get it right, rather than rush it
> and get it wrong!
>
> >
> > During the debugging of thp counter patch v2, I noticed the discrepancy between
> > THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK and THP_SWPOUT.
> >
> > Should we make adjustments to the counter?
>
> Yes, agreed; we want to be consistent here with all the other existing THP
> counters; they only refer to PMD-sized THP. I'll make the change for the next
> version.
>
> I guess we will eventually want equivalent counters for per-size mTHP using the
> framework you are adding.
Hi Ryan,
Today, I created counters for per-order SWPOUT and SWPOUT_FALLBACK.
I'd appreciate any
suggestions you might have before I submit this as patch 2/2 of my
mTHP counters series.
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index cc13fa14aa32..762a6d8759b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ unsigned long thp_vma_allowable_orders(struct
vm_area_struct *vma,
enum thp_stat_item {
THP_STAT_ANON_ALLOC,
THP_STAT_ANON_ALLOC_FALLBACK,
+ THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT,
+ THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT_FALLBACK,
__THP_STAT_COUNT
};
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index e704b4408181..7f2b5d2852cc 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -554,10 +554,14 @@ static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr =
__ATTR_RO(_name)
THP_STATE_ATTR(anon_alloc, THP_STAT_ANON_ALLOC);
THP_STATE_ATTR(anon_alloc_fallback, THP_STAT_ANON_ALLOC_FALLBACK);
+THP_STATE_ATTR(anon_swpout, THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT);
+THP_STATE_ATTR(anon_swpout_fallback, THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT_FALLBACK);
static struct attribute *stats_attrs[] = {
&anon_alloc_attr.attr,
&anon_alloc_fallback_attr.attr,
+ &anon_swpout_attr.attr,
+ &anon_swpout_fallback_attr.attr,
NULL,
};
diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index a9a7c236aecc..be4f822b39f8 100644
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -212,13 +212,16 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct
writeback_control *wbc)
static inline void count_swpout_vm_event(struct folio *folio)
{
+ long nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
if (unlikely(folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio))) {
count_memcg_folio_events(folio, THP_SWPOUT, 1);
count_vm_event(THP_SWPOUT);
}
+ if (nr_pages > 0 && nr_pages <= HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+ count_thp_state(folio_order(folio), THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT);
#endif
- count_vm_events(PSWPOUT, folio_nr_pages(folio));
+ count_vm_events(PSWPOUT, nr_pages);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && defined(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ffc4553c8615..b7c5fbd830b6 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,10 @@ static unsigned int shrink_folio_list(struct
list_head *folio_list,
count_vm_event(
THP_SWPOUT_FALLBACK);
}
+ if (nr_pages > 0 && nr_pages
<= HPAGE_PMD_NR)
+
count_thp_state(folio_order(folio),
+
THP_STAT_ANON_SWPOUT_FALLBACK);
+
#endif
if (!add_to_swap(folio))
goto activate_locked_split;
Thanks
Barry
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