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From 6c7f552a48b49a8612786a28a2239fbc24fac289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:52:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 19/29] mm: add vma_has_recency()
Add vma_has_recency() to indicate whether a VMA may exhibit temporal
locality that the LRU algorithm relies on.
This function returns false for VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ or
VM_RAND_READ. While the former flag indicates linear access, i.e., a
special case of spatial locality, both flags indicate a lack of temporal
locality, i.e., the reuse of an area within a relatively small duration.
"Recency" is chosen over "locality" to avoid confusion between temporal
and spatial localities.
Before this patch, the active/inactive LRU only ignored the accessed bit
from VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ. After this patch, the active/inactive
LRU and MGLRU share the same logic: they both ignore the accessed bit if
vma_has_recency() returns false.
For the active/inactive LRU, the following fio test showed a [6, 8]%
increase in IOPS when randomly accessing mapped files under memory
pressure.
kb=$(awk '/MemTotal/ { print $2 }' /proc/meminfo)
kb=$((kb - 8*1024*1024))
modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=$kb
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1M
mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0
mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/
swapoff -a
fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/ --ioengine=mmap --numjobs=8 \
--size=8G --rw=randrw --time_based --runtime=10m \
--group_reporting
The discussion that led to this patch is here [1]. Additional test
results are available in that thread.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y31s%2FK8T85jh05wH@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221230215252.2628425-1-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 9 +++++++++
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++----
mm/rmap.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++----------------------
mm/vmscan.c | 5 ++++-
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -333,4 +333,13 @@ static __always_inline void del_page_fro
update_lru_size(lruvec, page_lru(page), page_zonenum(page),
-thp_nr_pages(page));
}
+
+static inline bool vma_has_recency(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ))
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
#endif
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/sched/coredump.h>
#include <linux/sched/numa_balancing.h>
@@ -1353,8 +1354,7 @@ again:
force_flush = 1;
set_page_dirty(page);
}
- if (pte_young(ptent) &&
- likely(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SEQ_READ)))
+ if (pte_young(ptent) && likely(vma_has_recency(vma)))
mark_page_accessed(page);
}
rss[mm_counter(page)]--;
@@ -4781,8 +4781,8 @@ static inline void mm_account_fault(stru
#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
static void lru_gen_enter_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- /* the LRU algorithm doesn't apply to sequential or random reads */
- current->in_lru_fault = !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ));
+ /* the LRU algorithm only applies to accesses with recency */
+ current->in_lru_fault = vma_has_recency(vma);
}
static void lru_gen_exit_fault(void)
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -794,25 +794,14 @@ static bool page_referenced_one(struct p
}
if (pvmw.pte) {
- if (lru_gen_enabled() && pte_young(*pvmw.pte) &&
- !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ))) {
+ if (lru_gen_enabled() && pte_young(*pvmw.pte)) {
lru_gen_look_around(&pvmw);
referenced++;
}
if (ptep_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address,
- pvmw.pte)) {
- /*
- * Don't treat a reference through
- * a sequentially read mapping as such.
- * If the page has been used in another mapping,
- * we will catch it; if this other mapping is
- * already gone, the unmap path will have set
- * PG_referenced or activated the page.
- */
- if (likely(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SEQ_READ)))
- referenced++;
- }
+ pvmw.pte))
+ referenced++;
} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)) {
if (pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address,
pvmw.pmd))
@@ -846,7 +835,20 @@ static bool invalid_page_referenced_vma(
struct page_referenced_arg *pra = arg;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = pra->memcg;
- if (!mm_match_cgroup(vma->vm_mm, memcg))
+ /*
+ * Ignore references from this mapping if it has no recency. If the
+ * page has been used in another mapping, we will catch it; if this
+ * other mapping is already gone, the unmap path will have set the
+ * referenced flag or activated the page in zap_pte_range().
+ */
+ if (!vma_has_recency(vma))
+ return true;
+
+ /*
+ * If we are reclaiming on behalf of a cgroup, skip counting on behalf
+ * of references from different cgroups.
+ */
+ if (memcg && !mm_match_cgroup(vma->vm_mm, memcg))
return true;
return false;
@@ -876,6 +878,7 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page,
.rmap_one = page_referenced_one,
.arg = (void *)&pra,
.anon_lock = page_lock_anon_vma_read,
+ .invalid_vma = invalid_page_referenced_vma,
};
*vm_flags = 0;
@@ -891,15 +894,6 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page,
return 1;
}
- /*
- * If we are reclaiming on behalf of a cgroup, skip
- * counting on behalf of references from different
- * cgroups
- */
- if (memcg) {
- rwc.invalid_vma = invalid_page_referenced_vma;
- }
-
rmap_walk(page, &rwc);
*vm_flags = pra.vm_flags;
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3486,7 +3486,10 @@ static int should_skip_vma(unsigned long
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
return true;
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED | VM_SPECIAL | VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ))
+ if (!vma_has_recency(vma))
+ return true;
+
+ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED | VM_SPECIAL))
return true;
if (vma == get_gate_vma(vma->vm_mm))
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