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From 348fdbada9fb3f0bf1a53651be46319105af187f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:18:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 21/29] mm: multi-gen LRU: rename lru_gen_struct to
lru_gen_page
Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU", v3.
Overview
========
An memcg LRU is a per-node LRU of memcgs. It is also an LRU of LRUs,
since each node and memcg combination has an LRU of pages (see
mem_cgroup_lruvec()).
Its goal is to improve the scalability of global reclaim, which is
critical to system-wide memory overcommit in data centers. Note that
memcg reclaim is currently out of scope.
Its memory bloat is a pointer to each lruvec and negligible to each
pglist_data. In terms of traversing memcgs during global reclaim, it
improves the best-case complexity from O(n) to O(1) and does not affect
the worst-case complexity O(n). Therefore, on average, it has a sublinear
complexity in contrast to the current linear complexity.
The basic structure of an memcg LRU can be understood by an analogy to
the active/inactive LRU (of pages):
1. It has the young and the old (generations), i.e., the counterparts
to the active and the inactive;
2. The increment of max_seq triggers promotion, i.e., the counterpart
to activation;
3. Other events trigger similar operations, e.g., offlining an memcg
triggers demotion, i.e., the counterpart to deactivation.
In terms of global reclaim, it has two distinct features:
1. Sharding, which allows each thread to start at a random memcg (in
the old generation) and improves parallelism;
2. Eventual fairness, which allows direct reclaim to bail out at will
and reduces latency without affecting fairness over some time.
The commit message in patch 6 details the workflow:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-7-yuzhao@google.com/
The following is a simple test to quickly verify its effectiveness.
Test design:
1. Create multiple memcgs.
2. Each memcg contains a job (fio).
3. All jobs access the same amount of memory randomly.
4. The system does not experience global memory pressure.
5. Periodically write to the root memory.reclaim.
Desired outcome:
1. All memcgs have similar pgsteal counts, i.e., stddev(pgsteal)
over mean(pgsteal) is close to 0%.
2. The total pgsteal is close to the total requested through
memory.reclaim, i.e., sum(pgsteal) over sum(requested) is close
to 100%.
Actual outcome [1]:
MGLRU off MGLRU on
stddev(pgsteal) / mean(pgsteal) 75% 20%
sum(pgsteal) / sum(requested) 425% 95%
####################################################################
MEMCGS=128
for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg
done
start() {
echo $BASHPID > /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/cgroup.procs
fio -name=memcg$memcg --numjobs=1 --ioengine=mmap \
--filename=/dev/zero --size=1920M --rw=randrw \
--rate=64m,64m --random_distribution=random \
--fadvise_hint=0 --time_based --runtime=10h \
--group_reporting --minimal
}
for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
start &
done
sleep 600
for ((i = 0; i < 600; i++)); do
echo 256m >/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim
sleep 6
done
for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
grep "pgsteal " /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/memory.stat
done
####################################################################
[1]: This was obtained from running the above script (touches less
than 256GB memory) on an EPYC 7B13 with 512GB DRAM for over an
hour.
This patch (of 8):
The new name lru_gen_page will be more distinct from the coming
lru_gen_memcg.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +++---
mm/vmscan.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
mm/workingset.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static inline void lru_gen_update_size(s
int zone = page_zonenum(page);
int delta = thp_nr_pages(page);
enum lru_list lru = type * LRU_INACTIVE_FILE;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(old_gen != -1 && old_gen >= MAX_NR_GENS);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(new_gen != -1 && new_gen >= MAX_NR_GENS);
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static inline bool lru_gen_add_page(stru
int gen = page_lru_gen(page);
int type = page_is_file_lru(page);
int zone = page_zonenum(page);
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(gen != -1, page);
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ enum {
* The number of pages in each generation is eventually consistent and therefore
* can be transiently negative when reset_batch_size() is pending.
*/
-struct lru_gen_struct {
+struct lru_gen_page {
/* the aging increments the youngest generation number */
unsigned long max_seq;
/* the eviction increments the oldest generation numbers */
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ struct lru_gen_mm_state {
struct lru_gen_mm_walk {
/* the lruvec under reclaim */
struct lruvec *lruvec;
- /* unstable max_seq from lru_gen_struct */
+ /* unstable max_seq from lru_gen_page */
unsigned long max_seq;
/* the next address within an mm to scan */
unsigned long next_addr;
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ struct lruvec {
unsigned long flags;
#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
/* evictable pages divided into generations */
- struct lru_gen_struct lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page lrugen;
/* to concurrently iterate lru_gen_mm_list */
struct lru_gen_mm_state mm_state;
#endif
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2910,7 +2910,7 @@ static int get_nr_gens(struct lruvec *lr
static bool __maybe_unused seq_is_valid(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
- /* see the comment on lru_gen_struct */
+ /* see the comment on lru_gen_page */
return get_nr_gens(lruvec, LRU_GEN_FILE) >= MIN_NR_GENS &&
get_nr_gens(lruvec, LRU_GEN_FILE) <= get_nr_gens(lruvec, LRU_GEN_ANON) &&
get_nr_gens(lruvec, LRU_GEN_ANON) <= MAX_NR_GENS;
@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ struct ctrl_pos {
static void read_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type, int tier, int gain,
struct ctrl_pos *pos)
{
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
pos->refaulted = lrugen->avg_refaulted[type][tier] +
@@ -3331,7 +3331,7 @@ static void read_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec
static void reset_ctrl_pos(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type, bool carryover)
{
int hist, tier;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
bool clear = carryover ? NR_HIST_GENS == 1 : NR_HIST_GENS > 1;
unsigned long seq = carryover ? lrugen->min_seq[type] : lrugen->max_seq + 1;
@@ -3408,7 +3408,7 @@ static int page_update_gen(struct page *
static int page_inc_gen(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct page *page, bool reclaiming)
{
int type = page_is_file_lru(page);
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
int new_gen, old_gen = lru_gen_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
unsigned long new_flags, old_flags = READ_ONCE(page->flags);
@@ -3453,7 +3453,7 @@ static void update_batch_size(struct lru
static void reset_batch_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk)
{
int gen, type, zone;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
walk->batched = 0;
@@ -3979,7 +3979,7 @@ static bool inc_min_seq(struct lruvec *l
{
int zone;
int remaining = MAX_LRU_BATCH;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
int new_gen, old_gen = lru_gen_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
if (type == LRU_GEN_ANON && !can_swap)
@@ -4015,7 +4015,7 @@ static bool try_to_inc_min_seq(struct lr
{
int gen, type, zone;
bool success = false;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
DEFINE_MIN_SEQ(lruvec);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!seq_is_valid(lruvec));
@@ -4036,7 +4036,7 @@ next:
;
}
- /* see the comment on lru_gen_struct */
+ /* see the comment on lru_gen_page */
if (can_swap) {
min_seq[LRU_GEN_ANON] = min(min_seq[LRU_GEN_ANON], min_seq[LRU_GEN_FILE]);
min_seq[LRU_GEN_FILE] = max(min_seq[LRU_GEN_ANON], lrugen->min_seq[LRU_GEN_FILE]);
@@ -4058,7 +4058,7 @@ static void inc_max_seq(struct lruvec *l
{
int prev, next;
int type, zone;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
@@ -4116,7 +4116,7 @@ static bool try_to_inc_max_seq(struct lr
bool success;
struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk;
struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(max_seq > READ_ONCE(lrugen->max_seq));
@@ -4181,7 +4181,7 @@ static bool should_run_aging(struct lruv
unsigned long old = 0;
unsigned long young = 0;
unsigned long total = 0;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
for (type = !can_swap; type < ANON_AND_FILE; type++) {
@@ -4466,7 +4466,7 @@ static bool sort_page(struct lruvec *lru
int delta = thp_nr_pages(page);
int refs = page_lru_refs(page);
int tier = lru_tier_from_refs(refs);
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(gen >= MAX_NR_GENS, page);
@@ -4566,7 +4566,7 @@ static int scan_pages(struct lruvec *lru
int scanned = 0;
int isolated = 0;
int remaining = MAX_LRU_BATCH;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(list));
@@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ done:
static bool __maybe_unused state_is_valid(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
if (lrugen->enabled) {
enum lru_list lru;
@@ -5247,7 +5247,7 @@ static void lru_gen_seq_show_full(struct
int i;
int type, tier;
int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(seq);
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
for (tier = 0; tier < MAX_NR_TIERS; tier++) {
seq_printf(m, " %10d", tier);
@@ -5296,7 +5296,7 @@ static int lru_gen_seq_show(struct seq_f
unsigned long seq;
bool full = !debugfs_real_fops(m->file)->write;
struct lruvec *lruvec = v;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
int nid = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->node_id;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
DEFINE_MAX_SEQ(lruvec);
@@ -5549,7 +5549,7 @@ void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *
{
int i;
int gen, type, zone;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
lrugen->max_seq = MIN_NR_GENS + 1;
lrugen->enabled = lru_gen_enabled();
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static void *lru_gen_eviction(struct pag
unsigned long token;
unsigned long min_seq;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen;
int type = page_is_file_lru(page);
int delta = thp_nr_pages(page);
int refs = page_lru_refs(page);
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static void lru_gen_refault(struct page
unsigned long token;
unsigned long min_seq;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
- struct lru_gen_struct *lrugen;
+ struct lru_gen_page *lrugen;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct pglist_data *pgdat;
int type = page_is_file_lru(page);
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