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Message-ID: <13223d50-6218-49db-8356-700a1907e224@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:41:18 +0800
From: chenridong <chenridong@...wei.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>, Chen Ridong <chenridong@...weicloud.com>
CC: <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <mhocko@...e.com>, <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	<yosryahmed@...gle.com>, <yuzhao@...gle.com>, <david@...hat.com>,
	<willy@...radead.org>, <ryan.roberts@....com>, <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<wangweiyang2@...wei.com>, <xieym_ict@...mail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] mm: vmascan: retry folios written back while
 isolated for traditional LRU



On 2024/12/10 12:54, Barry Song wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 4:46 PM Chen Ridong <chenridong@...weicloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Chen Ridong <chenridong@...wei.com>
>>
>> The commit 359a5e1416ca ("mm: multi-gen LRU: retry folios written back
>> while isolated") only fixed the issue for mglru. However, this issue
>> also exists in the traditional active/inactive LRU. This issue will be
>> worse if THP is split, which makes the list longer and needs longer time
>> to finish a batch of folios reclaim.
>>
>> This issue should be fixed in the same way for the traditional LRU.
>> Therefore, the common logic was extracted to the 'find_folios_written_back'
>> function firstly, which is then reused in the 'shrink_inactive_list'
>> function. Finally, retry reclaiming those folios that may have missed the
>> rotation for traditional LRU.
> 
> let's drop the cover-letter and refine the changelog.
> 
Will update.

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/mmzone.h |   3 +-
>>  mm/vmscan.c            | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> index b36124145a16..47c6e8c43dcd 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ struct page_vma_mapped_walk;
>>
>>  #define LRU_GEN_MASK           ((BIT(LRU_GEN_WIDTH) - 1) << LRU_GEN_PGOFF)
>>  #define LRU_REFS_MASK          ((BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH) - 1) << LRU_REFS_PGOFF)
>> +#define LRU_REFS_FLAGS         (BIT(PG_referenced) | BIT(PG_workingset))
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
>>
>> @@ -406,8 +407,6 @@ enum {
>>         NR_LRU_GEN_CAPS
>>  };
>>
>> -#define LRU_REFS_FLAGS         (BIT(PG_referenced) | BIT(PG_workingset))
>> -
>>  #define MIN_LRU_BATCH          BITS_PER_LONG
>>  #define MAX_LRU_BATCH          (MIN_LRU_BATCH * 64)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>> index 76378bc257e3..1f0d194f8b2f 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -283,6 +283,48 @@ static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
>>         task->reclaim_state = rs;
>>  }
>>
>> +/**
>> + * find_folios_written_back - Find and move the written back folios to a new list.
>> + * @list: filios list
>> + * @clean: the written back folios list
>> + * @skip: whether skip to move the written back folios to clean list.
>> + */
>> +static inline void find_folios_written_back(struct list_head *list,
>> +               struct list_head *clean, bool skip)
>> +{
>> +       struct folio *folio;
>> +       struct folio *next;
>> +
>> +       list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(folio, next, list, lru) {
>> +               if (!folio_evictable(folio)) {
>> +                       list_del(&folio->lru);
>> +                       folio_putback_lru(folio);
>> +                       continue;
>> +               }
>> +
>> +               if (folio_test_reclaim(folio) &&
>> +                   (folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio))) {
>> +                       /* restore LRU_REFS_FLAGS cleared by isolate_folio() */
>> +                       if (lru_gen_enabled() && folio_test_workingset(folio))
>> +                               folio_set_referenced(folio);
>> +                       continue;
>> +               }
>> +
>> +               if (skip || folio_test_active(folio) || folio_test_referenced(folio) ||
>> +                   folio_mapped(folio) || folio_test_locked(folio) ||
>> +                   folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
>> +                       /* don't add rejected folios to the oldest generation */
>> +                       if (lru_gen_enabled())
>> +                               set_mask_bits(&folio->flags, LRU_REFS_MASK | LRU_REFS_FLAGS,
>> +                                             BIT(PG_active));
>> +                       continue;
>> +               }
>> +
>> +               /* retry folios that may have missed folio_rotate_reclaimable() */
>> +               list_move(&folio->lru, clean);
>> +       }
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * flush_reclaim_state(): add pages reclaimed outside of LRU-based reclaim to
>>   * scan_control->nr_reclaimed.
>> @@ -1907,6 +1949,25 @@ static int current_may_throttle(void)
>>         return !(current->flags & PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE);
>>  }
>>
>> +static inline void acc_reclaimed_stat(struct reclaim_stat *stat,
>> +               struct reclaim_stat *curr)
>> +{
>> +       int i;
>> +
>> +       stat->nr_dirty += curr->nr_dirty;
>> +       stat->nr_unqueued_dirty += curr->nr_unqueued_dirty;
>> +       stat->nr_congested += curr->nr_congested;
>> +       stat->nr_writeback += curr->nr_writeback;
>> +       stat->nr_immediate += curr->nr_immediate;
>> +       stat->nr_pageout += curr->nr_pageout;
>> +       stat->nr_ref_keep += curr->nr_ref_keep;
>> +       stat->nr_unmap_fail += curr->nr_unmap_fail;
>> +       stat->nr_lazyfree_fail += curr->nr_lazyfree_fail;
>> +       stat->nr_demoted += curr->nr_demoted;
>> +       for (i = 0; i < ANON_AND_FILE; i++)
>> +               stat->nr_activate[i] = curr->nr_activate[i];
>> +}
> 
> you had no this before, what's the purpose of this?
> 

We may call shrink_folio_list twice, and the 'stat curr' will reset in
the shrink_folio_list function. We should accumulate the stats as a
whole, which will then be used to calculate the cost and return it to
the caller.

Thanks,
Ridong

>> +
>>  /*
>>   * shrink_inactive_list() is a helper for shrink_node().  It returns the number
>>   * of reclaimed pages
>> @@ -1916,14 +1977,16 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
>>                 enum lru_list lru)
>>  {
>>         LIST_HEAD(folio_list);
>> +       LIST_HEAD(clean_list);
>>         unsigned long nr_scanned;
>>         unsigned int nr_reclaimed = 0;
>>         unsigned long nr_taken;
>> -       struct reclaim_stat stat;
>> +       struct reclaim_stat stat, curr;
>>         bool file = is_file_lru(lru);
>>         enum vm_event_item item;
>>         struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
>>         bool stalled = false;
>> +       bool skip_retry = false;
>>
>>         while (unlikely(too_many_isolated(pgdat, file, sc))) {
>>                 if (stalled)
>> @@ -1957,10 +2020,20 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
>>         if (nr_taken == 0)
>>                 return 0;
>>
>> -       nr_reclaimed = shrink_folio_list(&folio_list, pgdat, sc, &stat, false);
>> +       memset(&stat, 0, sizeof(stat));
>> +retry:
>> +       nr_reclaimed += shrink_folio_list(&folio_list, pgdat, sc, &curr, false);
>> +       find_folios_written_back(&folio_list, &clean_list, skip_retry);
>> +       acc_reclaimed_stat(&stat, &curr);
>>
>>         spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
>>         move_folios_to_lru(lruvec, &folio_list);
>> +       if (!list_empty(&clean_list)) {
>> +               list_splice_init(&clean_list, &folio_list);
>> +               skip_retry = true;
>> +               spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
>> +               goto retry;
>> +       }
>>
>>         __mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, PGDEMOTE_KSWAPD + reclaimer_offset(),
>>                                         stat.nr_demoted);
>> @@ -4567,8 +4640,6 @@ static int evict_folios(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, int swap
>>         int reclaimed;
>>         LIST_HEAD(list);
>>         LIST_HEAD(clean);
>> -       struct folio *folio;
>> -       struct folio *next;
>>         enum vm_event_item item;
>>         struct reclaim_stat stat;
>>         struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk;
>> @@ -4597,34 +4668,7 @@ static int evict_folios(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, int swap
>>                         scanned, reclaimed, &stat, sc->priority,
>>                         type ? LRU_INACTIVE_FILE : LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
>>
>> -       list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(folio, next, &list, lru) {
>> -               if (!folio_evictable(folio)) {
>> -                       list_del(&folio->lru);
>> -                       folio_putback_lru(folio);
>> -                       continue;
>> -               }
>> -
>> -               if (folio_test_reclaim(folio) &&
>> -                   (folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio))) {
>> -                       /* restore LRU_REFS_FLAGS cleared by isolate_folio() */
>> -                       if (folio_test_workingset(folio))
>> -                               folio_set_referenced(folio);
>> -                       continue;
>> -               }
>> -
>> -               if (skip_retry || folio_test_active(folio) || folio_test_referenced(folio) ||
>> -                   folio_mapped(folio) || folio_test_locked(folio) ||
>> -                   folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
>> -                       /* don't add rejected folios to the oldest generation */
>> -                       set_mask_bits(&folio->flags, LRU_REFS_MASK | LRU_REFS_FLAGS,
>> -                                     BIT(PG_active));
>> -                       continue;
>> -               }
>> -
>> -               /* retry folios that may have missed folio_rotate_reclaimable() */
>> -               list_move(&folio->lru, &clean);
>> -       }
>> -
>> +       find_folios_written_back(&list, &clean, skip_retry);
>>         spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
>>
>>         move_folios_to_lru(lruvec, &list);
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
> 
> Thanks
> Barry
> 
>>

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