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2014-01-29mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memoryJohannes Weiner
The VM is currently heavily tuned to avoid swapping. Whether that is good or bad is a separate discussion, but as long as the VM won't swap to make room for dirty cache, we can not consider anonymous pages when calculating the amount of dirtyable memory, the baseline to which dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio are applied. A simple workload that occupies a significant size (40+%, depending on memory layout, storage speeds etc.) of memory with anon/tmpfs pages and uses the remainder for a streaming writer demonstrates this problem. In that case, the actual cache pages are a small fraction of what is considered dirtyable overall, which results in an relatively large portion of the cache pages to be dirtied. As kswapd starts rotating these, random tasks enter direct reclaim and stall on IO. Only consider free pages and file pages dirtyable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23mm: vmscan: call NUMA-unaware shrinkers irrespective of nodemaskVladimir Davydov
If a shrinker is not NUMA-aware, shrink_slab() should call it exactly once with nid=0, but currently it is not true: if node 0 is not set in the nodemask or if it is not online, we will not call such shrinkers at all. As a result some slabs will be left untouched under some circumstances. Let us fix it. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Reported-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23mm: vmscan: shrink all slab objects if tight on memoryVladimir Davydov
When reclaiming kmem, we currently don't scan slabs that have less than batch_size objects (see shrink_slab_node()): while (total_scan >= batch_size) { shrinkctl->nr_to_scan = batch_size; shrinker->scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl); total_scan -= batch_size; } If there are only a few shrinkers available, such a behavior won't cause any problems, because the batch_size is usually small, but if we have a lot of slab shrinkers, which is perfectly possible since FS shrinkers are now per-superblock, we can end up with hundreds of megabytes of practically unreclaimable kmem objects. For instance, mounting a thousand of ext2 FS images with a hundred of files in each and iterating over all the files using du(1) will result in about 200 Mb of FS caches that cannot be dropped even with the aid of the vm.drop_caches sysctl! This problem was initially pointed out by Glauber Costa [*]. Glauber proposed to fix it by making the shrink_slab() always take at least one pass, to put it simply, turning the scan loop above to a do{}while() loop. However, this proposal was rejected, because it could result in more aggressive and frequent slab shrinking even under low memory pressure when total_scan is naturally very small. This patch is a slightly modified version of Glauber's approach. Similarly to Glauber's patch, it makes shrink_slab() scan less than batch_size objects, but only if the total number of objects we want to scan (total_scan) is greater than the total number of objects available (max_pass). Since total_scan is biased as half max_pass if the current delta change is small: if (delta < max_pass / 4) total_scan = min(total_scan, max_pass / 2); this is only possible if we are scanning at high prio. That said, this patch shouldn't change the vmscan behaviour if the memory pressure is low, but if we are tight on memory, we will do our best by trying to reclaim all available objects, which sounds reasonable. [*] http://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg06913.html Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGESasha Levin
Most of the VM_BUG_ON assertions are performed on a page. Usually, when one of these assertions fails we'll get a BUG_ON with a call stack and the registers. I've recently noticed based on the requests to add a small piece of code that dumps the page to various VM_BUG_ON sites that the page dump is quite useful to people debugging issues in mm. This patch adds a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) which beyond doing what VM_BUG_ON() does, also dumps the page before executing the actual BUG_ON. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up includes] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-16mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferredAndrew Vagin
This leak was added by commit 1d3d4437eae1 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work"). unreferenced object 0xffff88006ada3bd0 (size 8): comm "criu", pid 14781, jiffies 4295238251 (age 105.641s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace: [<ffffffff8170caee>] kmemleak_alloc+0x5e/0xc0 [<ffffffff811c0527>] __kmalloc+0x247/0x310 [<ffffffff8117848c>] register_shrinker+0x3c/0xa0 [<ffffffff811e115b>] sget+0x5ab/0x670 [<ffffffff812532f4>] proc_mount+0x54/0x170 [<ffffffff811e1893>] mount_fs+0x43/0x1b0 [<ffffffff81202dd2>] vfs_kern_mount+0x72/0x110 [<ffffffff81202e89>] kern_mount_data+0x19/0x30 [<ffffffff812530a0>] pid_ns_prepare_proc+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff81083c56>] alloc_pid+0x466/0x4a0 [<ffffffff8105aeda>] copy_process+0xc6a/0x1860 [<ffffffff8105beab>] do_fork+0x8b/0x370 [<ffffffff8105c1a6>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff8171f739>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU listsRafael Aquini
Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated page list. The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA path. Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 IP: [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897 PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897 RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40 RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45 R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40 R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0 Call Trace: shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566 __shrink_zone+0x94/0x178 shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82 balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2 kswapd+0x2f0/0x372 kthread+0xa2/0xaa ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 <48> 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb RIP [<ffffffff810c2625>] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897 RSP <ffff88003da499b8> CR2: 0000000000000028 ---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at putback_movable_pages() & reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify awkward comment text] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24revert "memcg, vmscan: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code"Andrew Morton
Revert commit 3b38722efd9f ("memcg, vmscan: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24revert "vmscan, memcg: do softlimit reclaim also for targeted reclaim"Andrew Morton
Revert commit a5b7c87f9207 ("vmscan, memcg: do softlimit reclaim also for targeted reclaim") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24revert "memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicates"Andrew Morton
Revert commit de57780dc659 ("memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicates") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24revert "memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not ↵Andrew Morton
scan anything" Revert commit e839b6a1c8d0 ("memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24revert "memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly"Andrew Morton
Revert commit e975de998b96 ("memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly") I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds
Merge more patches from Andrew Morton: "The rest of MM. Plus one misc cleanup" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits) mm/Kconfig: add MMU dependency for MIGRATION. kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() mm, thp: count thp_fault_fallback anytime thp fault fails thp: consolidate code between handle_mm_fault() and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() thp: do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() cleanup thp: move maybe_pmd_mkwrite() out of mk_huge_pmd() mm: cleanup add_to_page_cache_locked() thp: account anon transparent huge pages into NR_ANON_PAGES truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter mm: make lru_add_drain_all() selective memcg: document cgroup dirty/writeback memory statistics memcg: add per cgroup writeback pages accounting memcg: check for proper lock held in mem_cgroup_update_page_stat memcg: remove MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED memcg: reduce function dereference memcg: avoid overflow caused by PAGE_ALIGN memcg: rename RESOURCE_MAX to RES_COUNTER_MAX memcg: correct RESOURCE_MAX to ULLONG_MAX mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM mm: memcg: rework and document OOM waiting and wakeup ...
2013-09-12memcg: trivial cleanupsAndrew Morton
Clean up some mess made by the "Soft limit rework" series, and a few other things. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quicklyMichal Hocko
shrink_zone starts with soft reclaim pass first and then falls back to regular reclaim if nothing has been scanned. This behavior is natural but there is a catch. Memcg iterators, when used with the reclaim cookie, are designed to help to prevent from over reclaim by interleaving reclaimers (per node-zone-priority) so the tree walk might miss many (even all) nodes in the hierarchy e.g. when there are direct reclaimers racing with each other or with kswapd in the global case or multiple allocators reaching the limit for the target reclaim case. To make it even more complicated, targeted reclaim doesn't do the whole tree walk because it stops reclaiming once it reclaims sufficient pages. As a result groups over the limit might be missed, thus nothing is scanned, and reclaim would fall back to the reclaim all mode. This patch checks for the incomplete tree walk in shrink_zone. If no group has been visited and the hierarchy is soft reclaimable then we must have missed some groups, in which case the __shrink_zone is called again. This doesn't guarantee there will be some progress of course because the current reclaimer might be still racing with others but it would at least give a chance to start the walk without a big risk of reclaim latencies. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anythingMichal Hocko
mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim controls whether soft reclaim pass is done and it always says yes currently. Memcg iterators are clever to skip nodes that are not soft reclaimable quite efficiently but mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim can be more clever and do not start the soft reclaim pass at all if it knows that nothing would be scanned anyway. In order to do that, simply reuse mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible for the target group of the reclaim and allow the pass only if the whole subtree wouldn't be skipped. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12memcg: enhance memcg iterator to support predicatesMichal Hocko
The caller of the iterator might know that some nodes or even subtrees should be skipped but there is no way to tell iterators about that so the only choice left is to let iterators to visit each node and do the selection outside of the iterating code. This, however, doesn't scale well with hierarchies with many groups where only few groups are interesting. This patch adds mem_cgroup_iter_cond variant of the iterator with a callback which gets called for every visited node. There are three possible ways how the callback can influence the walk. Either the node is visited, it is skipped but the tree walk continues down the tree or the whole subtree of the current group is skipped. [hughd@google.com: fix memcg-less page reclaim] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12vmscan, memcg: do softlimit reclaim also for targeted reclaimMichal Hocko
Soft reclaim has been done only for the global reclaim (both background and direct). Since "memcg: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking code" there is no reason for this limitation anymore as the soft limit reclaim doesn't use any special code paths and it is a part of the zone shrinking code which is used by both global and targeted reclaims. From the semantic point of view it is natural to consider soft limit before touching all groups in the hierarchy tree which is touching the hard limit because soft limit tells us where to push back when there is a memory pressure. It is not important whether the pressure comes from the limit or imbalanced zones. This patch simply enables soft reclaim unconditionally in mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim so it is enabled for both global and targeted reclaim paths. mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible needs to learn about the root of the reclaim to know where to stop checking soft limit state of parents up the hierarchy. Say we have A (over soft limit) \ B (below s.l., hit the hard limit) / \ C D (below s.l.) B is the source of the outside memory pressure now for D but we shouldn't soft reclaim it because it is behaving well under B subtree and we can still reclaim from C (pressumably it is over the limit). mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible should therefore stop climbing up the hierarchy at B (root of the memory pressure). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12memcg, vmscan: integrate soft reclaim tighter with zone shrinking codeMichal Hocko
This patchset is sitting out of tree for quite some time without any objections. I would be really happy if it made it into 3.12. I do not want to push it too hard but I think this work is basically ready and waiting more doesn't help. The basic idea is quite simple. Pull soft reclaim into shrink_zone in the first step and get rid of the previous soft reclaim infrastructure. shrink_zone is done in two passes now. First it tries to do the soft limit reclaim and it falls back to reclaim-all mode if no group is over the limit or no pages have been scanned. The second pass happens at the same priority so the only time we waste is the memcg tree walk which has been updated in the third step to have only negligible overhead. As a bonus we will get rid of a _lot_ of code by this and soft reclaim will not stand out like before when it wasn't integrated into the zone shrinking code and it reclaimed at priority 0 (the testing results show that some workloads suffers from such an aggressive reclaim). The clean up is in a separate patch because I felt it would be easier to review that way. The second step is soft limit reclaim integration into targeted reclaim. It should be rather straight forward. Soft limit has been used only for the global reclaim so far but it makes sense for any kind of pressure coming from up-the-hierarchy, including targeted reclaim. The third step (patches 4-8) addresses the tree walk overhead by enhancing memcg iterators to enable skipping whole subtrees and tracking number of over soft limit children at each level of the hierarchy. This information is updated same way the old soft limit tree was updated (from memcg_check_events) so we shouldn't see an additional overhead. In fact mem_cgroup_update_soft_limit is much simpler than tree manipulation done previously. __shrink_zone uses mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible as a predicate for mem_cgroup_iter so the decision whether a particular group should be visited is done at the iterator level which allows us to decide to skip the whole subtree as well (if there is no child in excess). This reduces the tree walk overhead considerably. * TEST 1 ======== My primary test case was a parallel kernel build with 2 groups (make is running with -j8 with a distribution .config in a separate cgroup without any hard limit) on a 32 CPU machine booted with 1GB memory and both builds run taskset to Node 0 cpus. I was mostly interested in 2 setups. Default - no soft limit set and - and 0 soft limit set to both groups. The first one should tell us whether the rework regresses the default behavior while the second one should show us improvements in an extreme case where both workloads are always over the soft limit. /usr/bin/time -v has been used to collect the statistics and each configuration had 3 runs after fresh boot without any other load on the system. base is mmotm-2013-07-18-16-40 rework all 8 patches applied on top of base * No-limit User no-limit/base: min: 651.92 max: 672.65 avg: 664.33 std: 8.01 runs: 6 no-limit/rework: min: 657.34 [100.8%] max: 668.39 [99.4%] avg: 663.13 [99.8%] std: 3.61 runs: 6 System no-limit/base: min: 69.33 max: 71.39 avg: 70.32 std: 0.79 runs: 6 no-limit/rework: min: 69.12 [99.7%] max: 71.05 [99.5%] avg: 70.04 [99.6%] std: 0.59 runs: 6 Elapsed no-limit/base: min: 398.27 max: 422.36 avg: 408.85 std: 7.74 runs: 6 no-limit/rework: min: 386.36 [97.0%] max: 438.40 [103.8%] avg: 416.34 [101.8%] std: 18.85 runs: 6 The results are within noise. Elapsed time has a bigger variance but the average looks good. * 0-limit User 0-limit/base: min: 573.76 max: 605.63 avg: 585.73 std: 12.21 runs: 6 0-limit/rework: min: 645.77 [112.6%] max: 666.25 [110.0%] avg: 656.97 [112.2%] std: 7.77 runs: 6 System 0-limit/base: min: 69.57 max: 71.13 avg: 70.29 std: 0.54 runs: 6 0-limit/rework: min: 68.68 [98.7%] max: 71.40 [100.4%] avg: 69.91 [99.5%] std: 0.87 runs: 6 Elapsed 0-limit/base: min: 1306.14 max: 1550.17 avg: 1430.35 std: 90.86 runs: 6 0-limit/rework: min: 404.06 [30.9%] max: 465.94 [30.1%] avg: 434.81 [30.4%] std: 22.68 runs: 6 The improvement is really huge here (even bigger than with my previous testing and I suspect that this highly depends on the storage). Page fault statistics tell us at least part of the story: Minor 0-limit/base: min: 37180461.00 max: 37319986.00 avg: 37247470.00 std: 54772.71 runs: 6 0-limit/rework: min: 36751685.00 [98.8%] max: 36805379.00 [98.6%] avg: 36774506.33 [98.7%] std: 17109.03 runs: 6 Major 0-limit/base: min: 170604.00 max: 221141.00 avg: 196081.83 std: 18217.01 runs: 6 0-limit/rework: min: 2864.00 [1.7%] max: 10029.00 [4.5%] avg: 5627.33 [2.9%] std: 2252.71 runs: 6 Same as with my previous testing Minor faults are more or less within noise but Major fault count is way bellow the base kernel. While this looks as a nice win it is fair to say that 0-limit configuration is quite artificial. So I was playing with 0-no-limit loads as well. * TEST 2 ======== The following results are from 2 groups configuration on a 16GB machine (single NUMA node). - A running stream IO (dd if=/dev/zero of=local.file bs=1024) with 2*TotalMem with 0 soft limit. - B running a mem_eater which consumes TotalMem-1G without any limit. The mem_eater consumes the memory in 100 chunks with 1s nap after each mmap+poppulate so that both loads have chance to fight for the memory. The expected result is that B shouldn't be reclaimed and A shouldn't see a big dropdown in elapsed time. User base: min: 2.68 max: 2.89 avg: 2.76 std: 0.09 runs: 3 rework: min: 3.27 [122.0%] max: 3.74 [129.4%] avg: 3.44 [124.6%] std: 0.21 runs: 3 System base: min: 86.26 max: 88.29 avg: 87.28 std: 0.83 runs: 3 rework: min: 81.05 [94.0%] max: 84.96 [96.2%] avg: 83.14 [95.3%] std: 1.61 runs: 3 Elapsed base: min: 317.28 max: 332.39 avg: 325.84 std: 6.33 runs: 3 rework: min: 281.53 [88.7%] max: 298.16 [89.7%] avg: 290.99 [89.3%] std: 6.98 runs: 3 System time improved slightly as well as Elapsed. My previous testing has shown worse numbers but this again seem to depend on the storage speed. My theory is that the writeback doesn't catch up and prio-0 soft reclaim falls into wait on writeback page too often in the base kernel. The patched kernel doesn't do that because the soft reclaim is done from the kswapd/direct reclaim context. This can be seen on the following graph nicely. The A's group usage_in_bytes regurarly drops really low very often. All 3 runs http://labs.suse.cz/mhocko/soft_limit_rework/stream_io-vs-mem_eater/stream.png resp. a detail of the single run http://labs.suse.cz/mhocko/soft_limit_rework/stream_io-vs-mem_eater/stream-one-run.png mem_eater seems to be doing better as well. It gets to the full allocation size faster as can be seen on the following graph: http://labs.suse.cz/mhocko/soft_limit_rework/stream_io-vs-mem_eater/mem_eater-one-run.png /proc/meminfo collected during the test also shows that rework kernel hasn't swapped that much (well almost not at all): base: max: 123900 K avg: 56388.29 K rework: max: 300 K avg: 128.68 K kswapd and direct reclaim statistics are of no use unfortunatelly because soft reclaim is not accounted properly as the counters are hidden by global_reclaim() checks in the base kernel. * TEST 3 ======== Another test was the same configuration as TEST2 except the stream IO was replaced by a single kbuild (16 parallel jobs bound to Node0 cpus same as in TEST1) and mem_eater allocated TotalMem-200M so kbuild had only 200MB left. Kbuild did better with the rework kernel here as well: User base: min: 860.28 max: 872.86 avg: 868.03 std: 5.54 runs: 3 rework: min: 880.81 [102.4%] max: 887.45 [101.7%] avg: 883.56 [101.8%] std: 2.83 runs: 3 System base: min: 84.35 max: 85.06 avg: 84.79 std: 0.31 runs: 3 rework: min: 85.62 [101.5%] max: 86.09 [101.2%] avg: 85.79 [101.2%] std: 0.21 runs: 3 Elapsed base: min: 135.36 max: 243.30 avg: 182.47 std: 45.12 runs: 3 rework: min: 110.46 [81.6%] max: 116.20 [47.8%] avg: 114.15 [62.6%] std: 2.61 runs: 3 Minor base: min: 36635476.00 max: 36673365.00 avg: 36654812.00 std: 15478.03 runs: 3 rework: min: 36639301.00 [100.0%] max: 36695541.00 [100.1%] avg: 36665511.00 [100.0%] std: 23118.23 runs: 3 Major base: min: 14708.00 max: 53328.00 avg: 31379.00 std: 16202.24 runs: 3 rework: min: 302.00 [2.1%] max: 414.00 [0.8%] avg: 366.33 [1.2%] std: 47.22 runs: 3 Again we can see a significant improvement in Elapsed (it also seems to be more stable), there is a huge dropdown for the Major page faults and much more swapping: base: max: 583736 K avg: 112547.43 K rework: max: 4012 K avg: 124.36 K Graphs from all three runs show the variability of the kbuild quite nicely. It even seems that it took longer after every run with the base kernel which would be quite surprising as the source tree for the build is removed and caches are dropped after each run so the build operates on a freshly extracted sources everytime. http://labs.suse.cz/mhocko/soft_limit_rework/stream_io-vs-mem_eater/kbuild-mem_eater.png My other testing shows that this is just a matter of timing and other runs behave differently the std for Elapsed time is similar ~50. Example of other three runs: http://labs.suse.cz/mhocko/soft_limit_rework/stream_io-vs-mem_eater/kbuild-mem_eater2.png So to wrap this up. The series is still doing good and improves the soft limit. The testing results for bunch of cgroups with both stream IO and kbuild loads can be found in "memcg: track children in soft limit excess to improve soft limit". This patch: Memcg soft reclaim has been traditionally triggered from the global reclaim paths before calling shrink_zone. mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim then picked up a group which exceeds the soft limit the most and reclaimed it with 0 priority to reclaim at least SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages. The infrastructure requires per-node-zone trees which hold over-limit groups and keep them up-to-date (via memcg_check_events) which is not cost free. Although this overhead hasn't turned out to be a bottle neck the implementation is suboptimal because mem_cgroup_update_tree has no idea which zones consumed memory over the limit so we could easily end up having a group on a node-zone tree having only few pages from that node-zone. This patch doesn't try to fix node-zone trees management because it seems that integrating soft reclaim into zone shrinking sounds much easier and more appropriate for several reasons. First of all 0 priority reclaim was a crude hack which might lead to big stalls if the group's LRUs are big and hard to reclaim (e.g. a lot of dirty/writeback pages). Soft reclaim should be applicable also to the targeted reclaim which is awkward right now without additional hacks. Last but not least the whole infrastructure eats quite some code. After this patch shrink_zone is done in 2 passes. First it tries to do the soft reclaim if appropriate (only for global reclaim for now to keep compatible with the original state) and fall back to ignoring soft limit if no group is eligible to soft reclaim or nothing has been scanned during the first pass. Only groups which are over their soft limit or any of their parents up the hierarchy is over the limit are considered eligible during the first pass. Soft limit tree which is not necessary anymore will be removed in the follow up patch to make this patch smaller and easier to review. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro: "list_lru pile, mostly" This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that Andrew didn't have to. Additionally, a few fixes. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits) super: fix for destroy lrus list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API. shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API xfs: fix dquot isolation hang xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware vmscan: per-node deferred work ...
2013-09-11mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelockLisa Du
This patch is based on KOSAKI's work and I add a little more description, please refer https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/14/74. Currently, I found system can enter a state that there are lots of free pages in a zone but only order-0 and order-1 pages which means the zone is heavily fragmented, then high order allocation could make direct reclaim path's long stall(ex, 60 seconds) especially in no swap and no compaciton enviroment. This problem happened on v3.4, but it seems issue still lives in current tree, the reason is do_try_to_free_pages enter live lock: kswapd will go to sleep if the zones have been fully scanned and are still not balanced. As kswapd thinks there's little point trying all over again to avoid infinite loop. Instead it changes order from high-order to 0-order because kswapd think order-0 is the most important. Look at 73ce02e9 in detail. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go back to sleep and may leave zone->all_unreclaimable =3D 0. It assume high-order users can still perform direct reclaim if they wish. Direct reclaim continue to reclaim for a high order which is not a COSTLY_ORDER without oom-killer until kswapd turn on zone->all_unreclaimble= . This is because to avoid too early oom-kill. So it means direct_reclaim depends on kswapd to break this loop. In worst case, direct-reclaim may continue to page reclaim forever when kswapd sleeps forever until someone like watchdog detect and finally kill the process. As described in: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/103737 We can't turn on zone->all_unreclaimable from direct reclaim path because direct reclaim path don't take any lock and this way is racy. Thus this patch removes zone->all_unreclaimable field completely and recalculates zone reclaimable state every time. Note: we can't take the idea that direct-reclaim see zone->pages_scanned directly and kswapd continue to use zone->all_unreclaimable. Because, it is racy. commit 929bea7c71 (vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use zone->all_unreclaimable as a name) describes the detail. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: uninline zone_reclaimable_pages() and zone_reclaimable()] Cc: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Zhang <zhangwm@marvell.com> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lisa Du <cldu@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11mm: putback_lru_page: remove unnecessary call to page_lru_base_type()Vlastimil Babka
The goal of this patch series is to improve performance of munlock() of large mlocked memory areas on systems without THP. This is motivated by reported very long times of crash recovery of processes with such areas, where munlock() can take several seconds. See http://lwn.net/Articles/548108/ The work was driven by a simple benchmark (to be included in mmtests) that mmaps() e.g. 56GB with MAP_LOCKED | MAP_POPULATE and measures the time of munlock(). Profiling was performed by attaching operf --pid to the process and sending a signal to trigger the munlock() part and then notify bach the monitoring wrapper to stop operf, so that only munlock() appears in the profile. The profiles have shown that CPU time is spent mostly by atomic operations and repeated locking per single pages. This series aims to reduce both, starting from simpler to more complex changes. Patch 1 performs a simple cleanup in putback_lru_page() so that page lru base type is not determined without being actually needed. Patch 2 removes an unnecessary call to lru_add_drain() which drains the per-cpu pagevec after each munlocked page is put there. Patch 3 changes munlock_vma_range() to use an on-stack pagevec for isolating multiple non-THP pages under a single lru_lock instead of locking and processing each page separately. Patch 4 changes the NR_MLOCK accounting to be called only once per the pvec introduced by previous patch. Patch 5 uses the introduced pagevec to batch also the work of putback_lru_page when possible, bypassing the per-cpu pvec and associated overhead. Patch 6 removes a redundant get_page/put_page pair which saves costly atomic operations. Patch 7 avoids calling follow_page_mask() on each individual page, and obtains multiple page references under a single page table lock where possible. Measurements were made using 3.11-rc3 as a baseline. The first set of measurements shows the possibly ideal conditions where batching should help the most. All memory is allocated from a single NUMA node and THP is disabled. timedmunlock 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Elapsed min 3.38 ( 0.00%) 3.39 ( -0.13%) 3.00 ( 11.33%) 2.70 ( 20.20%) 2.67 ( 21.11%) 2.37 ( 29.88%) 2.20 ( 34.91%) 1.91 ( 43.59%) Elapsed mean 3.39 ( 0.00%) 3.40 ( -0.23%) 3.01 ( 11.33%) 2.70 ( 20.26%) 2.67 ( 21.21%) 2.38 ( 29.88%) 2.21 ( 34.93%) 1.92 ( 43.46%) Elapsed stddev 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.01 (-43.09%) 0.01 ( 15.42%) 0.01 ( 23.42%) 0.00 ( 89.78%) 0.01 ( -7.15%) 0.00 ( 76.69%) 0.02 (-91.77%) Elapsed max 3.41 ( 0.00%) 3.43 ( -0.52%) 3.03 ( 11.29%) 2.72 ( 20.16%) 2.67 ( 21.63%) 2.40 ( 29.50%) 2.21 ( 35.21%) 1.96 ( 42.39%) Elapsed range 0.03 ( 0.00%) 0.04 (-51.16%) 0.02 ( 6.27%) 0.02 ( 14.67%) 0.00 ( 88.90%) 0.03 (-19.18%) 0.01 ( 73.70%) 0.06 (-113.35% The second set of measurements simulates the worst possible conditions for batching by using numactl --interleave, so that there is in fact only one page per pagevec. Even in this case the series seems to improve performance thanks to reduced atomic operations and removal of lru_add_drain(). timedmunlock 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Elapsed min 4.00 ( 0.00%) 4.04 ( -0.93%) 3.87 ( 3.37%) 3.72 ( 6.94%) 3.81 ( 4.72%) 3.69 ( 7.82%) 3.64 ( 8.92%) 3.41 ( 14.81%) Elapsed mean 4.17 ( 0.00%) 4.15 ( 0.51%) 4.03 ( 3.49%) 3.89 ( 6.84%) 3.86 ( 7.48%) 3.89 ( 6.69%) 3.70 ( 11.27%) 3.48 ( 16.59%) Elapsed stddev 0.16 ( 0.00%) 0.08 ( 50.76%) 0.10 ( 41.58%) 0.16 ( 4.59%) 0.05 ( 72.38%) 0.19 (-12.91%) 0.05 ( 68.09%) 0.06 ( 66.03%) Elapsed max 4.34 ( 0.00%) 4.32 ( 0.56%) 4.19 ( 3.62%) 4.12 ( 5.15%) 3.91 ( 9.88%) 4.12 ( 5.25%) 3.80 ( 12.58%) 3.56 ( 18.08%) Elapsed range 0.34 ( 0.00%) 0.28 ( 17.91%) 0.32 ( 6.45%) 0.40 (-15.73%) 0.10 ( 70.06%) 0.43 (-24.84%) 0.15 ( 55.32%) 0.15 ( 56.16%) For completeness, a third set of measurements shows the situation where THP is enabled and allocations are again done on a single NUMA node. Here munlock() is already very fast thanks to huge pages, and this series does not compromise that performance. It seems that the removal of call to lru_add_drain() still helps a bit. timedmunlock 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 3.11-rc3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Elapsed min 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.01 ( -0.11%) 0.01 ( 6.59%) 0.01 ( 5.41%) 0.01 ( 5.45%) 0.01 ( 5.03%) 0.01 ( 6.08%) 0.01 ( 5.20%) Elapsed mean 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.01 ( -0.27%) 0.01 ( 6.39%) 0.01 ( 5.30%) 0.01 ( 5.32%) 0.01 ( 5.03%) 0.01 ( 5.97%) 0.01 ( 5.22%) Elapsed stddev 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( -9.59%) 0.00 ( 10.77%) 0.00 ( 3.24%) 0.00 ( 24.42%) 0.00 ( 31.86%) 0.00 ( -7.46%) 0.00 ( 6.11%) Elapsed max 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.01 ( -0.01%) 0.01 ( 6.83%) 0.01 ( 5.42%) 0.01 ( 5.79%) 0.01 ( 5.53%) 0.01 ( 6.08%) 0.01 ( 5.26%) Elapsed range 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 7.30%) 0.00 ( 24.38%) 0.00 ( 6.10%) 0.00 ( 30.79%) 0.00 ( 42.52%) 0.00 ( 6.11%) 0.00 ( 10.07%) This patch (of 7): In putback_lru_page() since commit c53954a092 (""mm: remove lru parameter from __lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru") it is no longer needed to determine lru list via page_lru_base_type(). This patch replaces it with simple flag is_unevictable which says that the page was put on the inevictable list. This is the only information that matters in subsequent tests. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11mm: vmscan: fix numa reclaim balance problem in kswapdJohannes Weiner
The way the page allocator interacts with kswapd creates aging imbalances, where the amount of time a userspace page gets in memory under reclaim pressure is dependent on which zone, which node the allocator took the page frame from. #1 fixes missed kswapd wakeups on NUMA systems, which lead to some nodes falling behind for a full reclaim cycle relative to the other nodes in the system #3 fixes an interaction where kswapd and a continuous stream of page allocations keep the preferred zone of a task between the high and low watermark (allocations succeed + kswapd does not go to sleep) indefinitely, completely underutilizing the lower zones and thrashing on the preferred zone These patches are the aging fairness part of the thrash-detection based file LRU balancing. Andrea recommended to submit them separately as they are bugfixes in their own right. The following test ran a foreground workload (memcachetest) with background IO of various sizes on a 4 node 8G system (similar results were observed with single-node 4G systems): parallelio BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC Ops memcachetest-0M 5170.00 ( 0.00%) 5283.00 ( 2.19%) Ops memcachetest-791M 4740.00 ( 0.00%) 5293.00 ( 11.67%) Ops memcachetest-2639M 2551.00 ( 0.00%) 4950.00 ( 94.04%) Ops memcachetest-4487M 2606.00 ( 0.00%) 3922.00 ( 50.50%) Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops io-duration-791M 55.00 ( 0.00%) 18.00 ( 67.27%) Ops io-duration-2639M 235.00 ( 0.00%) 103.00 ( 56.17%) Ops io-duration-4487M 278.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 37.77%) Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-791M 245184.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-2639M 468069.00 ( 0.00%) 108778.00 ( 76.76%) Ops swaptotal-4487M 452529.00 ( 0.00%) 76623.00 ( 83.07%) Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-791M 108297.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-2639M 169537.00 ( 0.00%) 50031.00 ( 70.49%) Ops swapin-4487M 167435.00 ( 0.00%) 34178.00 ( 79.59%) Ops minorfaults-0M 1518666.00 ( 0.00%) 1503993.00 ( 0.97%) Ops minorfaults-791M 1676963.00 ( 0.00%) 1520115.00 ( 9.35%) Ops minorfaults-2639M 1606035.00 ( 0.00%) 1799717.00 (-12.06%) Ops minorfaults-4487M 1612118.00 ( 0.00%) 1583825.00 ( 1.76%) Ops majorfaults-0M 6.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops majorfaults-791M 13836.00 ( 0.00%) 10.00 ( 99.93%) Ops majorfaults-2639M 22307.00 ( 0.00%) 6490.00 ( 70.91%) Ops majorfaults-4487M 21631.00 ( 0.00%) 4380.00 ( 79.75%) BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC User 287.78 460.97 System 2151.67 3142.51 Elapsed 9737.00 8879.34 BAS FAIRALLO BASE FAIRALLOC Minor Faults 53721925 57188551 Major Faults 392195 15157 Swap Ins 2994854 112770 Swap Outs 4907092 134982 Direct pages scanned 0 41824 Kswapd pages scanned 32975063 8128269 Kswapd pages reclaimed 6323069 7093495 Direct pages reclaimed 0 41824 Kswapd efficiency 19% 87% Kswapd velocity 3386.573 915.414 Direct efficiency 100% 100% Direct velocity 0.000 4.710 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% Zone normal velocity 2011.338 550.661 Zone dma32 velocity 1365.623 369.221 Zone dma velocity 9.612 0.242 Page writes by reclaim 18732404.000 614807.000 Page writes file 13825312 479825 Page writes anon 4907092 134982 Page reclaim immediate 85490 5647 Sector Reads 12080532 483244 Sector Writes 88740508 65438876 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 82560 12160 Direct inode steals 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 24401 40013 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 THP fault alloc 6 8 THP collapse alloc 5481 5812 THP splits 75 22 THP fault fallback 0 0 THP collapse fail 0 0 Compaction stalls 0 54 Compaction success 0 45 Compaction failures 0 9 Page migrate success 881492 82278 Page migrate failure 0 0 Compaction pages isolated 0 60334 Compaction migrate scanned 0 53505 Compaction free scanned 0 1537605 Compaction cost 914 86 NUMA PTE updates 46738231 41988419 NUMA hint faults 31175564 24213387 NUMA hint local faults 10427393 6411593 NUMA pages migrated 881492 55344 AutoNUMA cost 156221 121361 The overall runtime was reduced, throughput for both the foreground workload as well as the background IO improved, major faults, swapping and reclaim activity shrunk significantly, reclaim efficiency more than quadrupled. This patch: When the page allocator fails to get a page from all zones in its given zonelist, it wakes up the per-node kswapds for all zones that are at their low watermark. However, with a system under load the free pages in a zone can fluctuate enough that the allocation fails but the kswapd wakeup is also skipped while the zone is still really close to the low watermark. When one node misses a wakeup like this, it won't be aged before all the other node's zones are down to their low watermarks again. And skipping a full aging cycle is an obvious fairness problem. Kswapd runs until the high watermarks are restored, so it should also be woken when the high watermarks are not met. This ages nodes more equally and creates a safety margin for the page counter fluctuation. By using zone_balanced(), it will now check, in addition to the watermark, if compaction requires more order-0 pages to create a higher order page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Bolle <paul.bollee@gmail.com> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-10shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.Dave Chinner
There are no more users of this API, so kill it dead, dead, dead and quietly bury the corpse in a shallow, unmarked grave in a dark forest deep in the hills... [glommer@openvz.org: added flowers to the grave] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10vmscan: per-node deferred workGlauber Costa
The list_lru infrastructure already keeps per-node LRU lists in its node-specific list_lru_node arrays and provide us with a per-node API, and the shrinkers are properly equiped with node information. This means that we can now focus our shrinking effort in a single node, but the work that is deferred from one run to another is kept global at nr_in_batch. Work can be deferred, for instance, during direct reclaim under a GFP_NOFS allocation, where situation, all the filesystem shrinkers will be prevented from running and accumulate in nr_in_batch the amount of work they should have done, but could not. This creates an impedance problem, where upon node pressure, work deferred will accumulate and end up being flushed in other nodes. The problem we describe is particularly harmful in big machines, where many nodes can accumulate at the same time, all adding to the global counter nr_in_batch. As we accumulate more and more, we start to ask for the caches to flush even bigger numbers. The result is that the caches are depleted and do not stabilize. To achieve stable steady state behavior, we need to tackle it differently. In this patch we keep the deferred count per-node, in the new array nr_deferred[] (the name is also a bit more descriptive) and will never accumulate that to other nodes. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10shrinker: add node awarenessDave Chinner
Pass the node of the current zone being reclaimed to shrink_slab(), allowing the shrinker control nodemask to be set appropriately for node aware shrinkers. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10mm: new shrinker APIDave Chinner
The current shrinker callout API uses an a single shrinker call for multiple functions. To determine the function, a special magical value is passed in a parameter to change the behaviour. This complicates the implementation and return value specification for the different behaviours. Separate the two different behaviours into separate operations, one to return a count of freeable objects in the cache, and another to scan a certain number of objects in the cache for freeing. In defining these new operations, ensure the return values and resultant behaviours are clearly defined and documented. Modify shrink_slab() to use the new API and implement the callouts for all the existing shrinkers. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-09mm: vmscan: do not scale writeback pages when deciding whether to set ↵Mel Gorman
ZONE_WRITEBACK After the patch "mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop" was merged the scanning priority of kswapd changed. The priority now rises until it is scanning enough pages to meet the high watermark. shrink_inactive_list sets ZONE_WRITEBACK if a number of pages were encountered under writeback but this value is scaled based on the priority. As kswapd frequently scans with a higher priority now it is relatively easy to set ZONE_WRITEBACK. This patch removes the scaling and treates writeback pages similar to how it treats unqueued dirty pages and congested pages. The user-visible effect should be that kswapd will writeback fewer pages from reclaim context. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09mm: vmscan: do not continue scanning if reclaim was aborted for compactionMel Gorman
Direct reclaim is not aborting to allow compaction to go ahead properly. do_try_to_free_pages is told to abort reclaim which is happily ignores and instead increases priority instead until it reaches 0 and starts shrinking file/anon equally. This patch corrects the situation by aborting reclaim when requested instead of raising priority. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: remove lru parameter from __lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lruMel Gorman
Similar to __pagevec_lru_add, this patch removes the LRU parameter from __lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru as the caller does not control the exact LRU the page gets added to. lru_cache_add_lru gets renamed to lru_cache_add the name is silly without the lru parameter. With the parameter removed, it is required that the caller indicate if they want the page added to the active or inactive list by setting or clearing PageActive respectively. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the patch] [gang.chen@asianux.com: fix used-unintialized warning] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru> Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into accountMel Gorman
Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should begin writing back pages. This fails to account for buffer pages that can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for filesystems like ext3 ordered mode. Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not be accounted as congested. This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under writeback. An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode. By default the page flags are obeyed. Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the problem could be addressed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: treat pages marked for immediate reclaim as zone congestionMel Gorman
Currently a zone will only be marked congested if the underlying BDI is congested but if dirty pages are spread across zones it is possible that an individual zone is full of dirty pages without being congested. The impact is that zone gets scanned very quickly potentially reclaiming really clean pages. This patch treats pages marked for immediate reclaim as congested for the purposes of marking a zone ZONE_CONGESTED and stalling in wait_iff_congested. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: move direct reclaim wait_iff_congested into shrink_listMel Gorman
shrink_inactive_list makes decisions on whether to stall based on the number of dirty pages encountered. The wait_iff_congested() call in shrink_page_list does no such thing and it's arbitrary. This patch moves the decision on whether to set ZONE_CONGESTED and the wait_iff_congested call into shrink_page_list. This keeps all the decisions on whether to stall or not in the one place. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: set zone flags before blockingMel Gorman
In shrink_page_list a decision may be made to stall and flag a zone as ZONE_WRITEBACK so that if a large number of unqueued dirty pages are encountered later then the reclaimer will stall. Set ZONE_WRITEBACK before potentially going to sleep so it is noticed sooner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: stall page reclaim after a list of pages have been processedMel Gorman
Commit "mm: vmscan: Block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writeback" blocks page reclaim if it encounters pages under writeback marked for immediate reclaim. It blocks while pages are still isolated from the LRU which is unnecessary. This patch defers the blocking until after the isolated pages have been processed and tidies up some of the comments. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: stall page reclaim and writeback pages based on dirty/writepage ↵Mel Gorman
pages encountered Further testing of the "Reduce system disruption due to kswapd" discovered a few problems. First and foremost, it's possible for pages under writeback to be freed which will lead to badness. Second, as pages were not being swapped the file LRU was being scanned faster and clean file pages were being reclaimed. In some cases this results in increased read IO to re-read data from disk. Third, more pages were being written from kswapd context which can adversly affect IO performance. Lastly, it was observed that PageDirty pages are not necessarily dirty on all filesystems (buffers can be clean while PageDirty is set and ->writepage generates no IO) and not all filesystems set PageWriteback when the page is being written (e.g. ext3). This disconnect confuses the reclaim stalling logic. This follow-up series is aimed at these problems. The tests were based on three kernels vanilla: kernel 3.9 as that is what the current mmotm uses as a baseline mmotm-20130522 is mmotm as of 22nd May with "Reduce system disruption due to kswapd" applied on top as per what should be in Andrew's tree right now lessdisrupt-v7r10 is this follow-up series on top of the mmotm kernel The first test used memcached+memcachetest while some background IO was in progress as implemented by the parallel IO tests implement in MM Tests. memcachetest benchmarks how many operations/second memcached can service. It starts with no background IO on a freshly created ext4 filesystem and then re-runs the test with larger amounts of IO in the background to roughly simulate a large copy in progress. The expectation is that the IO should have little or no impact on memcachetest which is running entirely in memory. parallelio 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanilla mm1-mmotm-20130522 mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Ops memcachetest-0M 23117.00 ( 0.00%) 22780.00 ( -1.46%) 22763.00 ( -1.53%) Ops memcachetest-715M 23774.00 ( 0.00%) 23299.00 ( -2.00%) 22934.00 ( -3.53%) Ops memcachetest-2385M 4208.00 ( 0.00%) 24154.00 (474.00%) 23765.00 (464.76%) Ops memcachetest-4055M 4104.00 ( 0.00%) 25130.00 (512.33%) 24614.00 (499.76%) Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops io-duration-715M 12.00 ( 0.00%) 7.00 ( 41.67%) 6.00 ( 50.00%) Ops io-duration-2385M 116.00 ( 0.00%) 21.00 ( 81.90%) 21.00 ( 81.90%) Ops io-duration-4055M 160.00 ( 0.00%) 36.00 ( 77.50%) 35.00 ( 78.12%) Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-715M 140138.00 ( 0.00%) 18.00 ( 99.99%) 18.00 ( 99.99%) Ops swaptotal-2385M 385682.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-4055M 418029.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-715M 144.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-2385M 134227.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-4055M 125618.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops minorfaults-0M 1536429.00 ( 0.00%) 1531632.00 ( 0.31%) 1533541.00 ( 0.19%) Ops minorfaults-715M 1786996.00 ( 0.00%) 1612148.00 ( 9.78%) 1608832.00 ( 9.97%) Ops minorfaults-2385M 1757952.00 ( 0.00%) 1614874.00 ( 8.14%) 1613541.00 ( 8.21%) Ops minorfaults-4055M 1774460.00 ( 0.00%) 1633400.00 ( 7.95%) 1630881.00 ( 8.09%) Ops majorfaults-0M 1.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops majorfaults-715M 184.00 ( 0.00%) 167.00 ( 9.24%) 166.00 ( 9.78%) Ops majorfaults-2385M 24444.00 ( 0.00%) 155.00 ( 99.37%) 93.00 ( 99.62%) Ops majorfaults-4055M 21357.00 ( 0.00%) 147.00 ( 99.31%) 134.00 ( 99.37%) memcachetest is the transactions/second reported by memcachetest. In the vanilla kernel note that performance drops from around 23K/sec to just over 4K/second when there is 2385M of IO going on in the background. With current mmotm, there is no collapse in performance and with this follow-up series there is little change. swaptotal is the total amount of swap traffic. With mmotm and the follow-up series, the total amount of swapping is much reduced. 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Minor Faults 11160152 10706748 10622316 Major Faults 46305 755 678 Swap Ins 260249 0 0 Swap Outs 683860 18 18 Direct pages scanned 0 678 2520 Kswapd pages scanned 6046108 8814900 1639279 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1081954 1172267 1094635 Direct pages reclaimed 0 566 2304 Kswapd efficiency 17% 13% 66% Kswapd velocity 5217.560 7618.953 1414.879 Direct efficiency 100% 83% 91% Direct velocity 0.000 0.586 2.175 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% 0% Zone normal velocity 5105.086 6824.681 671.158 Zone dma32 velocity 112.473 794.858 745.896 Zone dma velocity 0.000 0.000 0.000 Page writes by reclaim 1929612.000 6861768.000 32821.000 Page writes file 1245752 6861750 32803 Page writes anon 683860 18 18 Page reclaim immediate 7484 40 239 Sector Reads 1130320 93996 86900 Sector Writes 13508052 10823500 11804436 Page rescued immediate 0 0 0 Slabs scanned 33536 27136 18560 Direct inode steals 0 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 8641 1035 0 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 0 THP fault alloc 8 37 33 THP collapse alloc 508 552 515 THP splits 24 1 1 THP fault fallback 0 0 0 THP collapse fail 0 0 0 There are a number of observations to make here 1. Swap outs are almost eliminated. Swap ins are 0 indicating that the pages swapped were really unused anonymous pages. Related to that, major faults are much reduced. 2. kswapd efficiency was impacted by the initial series but with these follow-up patches, the efficiency is now at 66% indicating that far fewer pages were skipped during scanning due to dirty or writeback pages. 3. kswapd velocity is reduced indicating that fewer pages are being scanned with the follow-up series as kswapd now stalls when the tail of the LRU queue is full of unqueued dirty pages. The stall gives flushers a chance to catch-up so kswapd can reclaim clean pages when it wakes 4. In light of Zlatko's recent reports about zone scanning imbalances, mmtests now reports scanning velocity on a per-zone basis. With mainline, you can see that the scanning activity is dominated by the Normal zone with over 45 times more scanning in Normal than the DMA32 zone. With the series currently in mmotm, the ratio is slightly better but it is still the case that the bulk of scanning is in the highest zone. With this follow-up series, the ratio of scanning between the Normal and DMA32 zone is roughly equal. 5. As Dave Chinner observed, the current patches in mmotm increased the number of pages written from kswapd context which is expected to adversly impact IO performance. With the follow-up patches, far fewer pages are written from kswapd context than the mainline kernel 6. With the series in mmotm, fewer inodes were reclaimed by kswapd. With the follow-up series, there is less slab shrinking activity and no inodes were reclaimed. 7. Note that "Sectors Read" is drastically reduced implying that the source data being used for the IO is not being aggressively discarded due to page reclaim skipping over dirty pages and reclaiming clean pages. Note that the reducion in reads could also be due to inode data not being re-read from disk after a slab shrink. 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Mean sda-avgqz 166.99 32.09 33.44 Mean sda-await 853.64 192.76 185.43 Mean sda-r_await 6.31 9.24 5.97 Mean sda-w_await 2992.81 202.65 192.43 Max sda-avgqz 1409.91 718.75 698.98 Max sda-await 6665.74 3538.00 3124.23 Max sda-r_await 58.96 111.95 58.00 Max sda-w_await 28458.94 3977.29 3148.61 In light of the changes in writes from reclaim context, the number of reads and Dave Chinner's concerns about IO performance I took a closer look at the IO stats for the test disk. Few observations 1. The average queue size is reduced by the initial series and roughly the same with this follow up. 2. Average wait times for writes are reduced and as the IO is completing faster it at least implies that the gain is because flushers are writing the files efficiently instead of page reclaim getting in the way. 3. The reduction in maximum write latency is staggering. 28 seconds down to 3 seconds. Jan Kara asked how NFS is affected by all of this. Unstable pages can be taken into account as one of the patches in the series shows but it is still the case that filesystems with unusual handling of dirty or writeback could still be treated better. Tests like postmark, fsmark and largedd showed up nothing useful. On my test setup, pages are simply not being written back from reclaim context with or without the patches and there are no changes in performance. My test setup probably is just not strong enough network-wise to be really interesting. I ran a longer-lived memcached test with IO going to NFS instead of a local disk parallelio 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanilla mm1-mmotm-20130522 mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Ops memcachetest-0M 23323.00 ( 0.00%) 23241.00 ( -0.35%) 23321.00 ( -0.01%) Ops memcachetest-715M 25526.00 ( 0.00%) 24763.00 ( -2.99%) 23242.00 ( -8.95%) Ops memcachetest-2385M 8814.00 ( 0.00%) 26924.00 (205.47%) 23521.00 (166.86%) Ops memcachetest-4055M 5835.00 ( 0.00%) 26827.00 (359.76%) 25560.00 (338.05%) Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops io-duration-715M 65.00 ( 0.00%) 71.00 ( -9.23%) 11.00 ( 83.08%) Ops io-duration-2385M 129.00 ( 0.00%) 94.00 ( 27.13%) 53.00 ( 58.91%) Ops io-duration-4055M 301.00 ( 0.00%) 100.00 ( 66.78%) 108.00 ( 64.12%) Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-715M 14394.00 ( 0.00%) 949.00 ( 93.41%) 63.00 ( 99.56%) Ops swaptotal-2385M 401483.00 ( 0.00%) 24437.00 ( 93.91%) 30118.00 ( 92.50%) Ops swaptotal-4055M 554123.00 ( 0.00%) 35688.00 ( 93.56%) 63082.00 ( 88.62%) Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-715M 4522.00 ( 0.00%) 560.00 ( 87.62%) 63.00 ( 98.61%) Ops swapin-2385M 169861.00 ( 0.00%) 5026.00 ( 97.04%) 13917.00 ( 91.81%) Ops swapin-4055M 192374.00 ( 0.00%) 10056.00 ( 94.77%) 25729.00 ( 86.63%) Ops minorfaults-0M 1445969.00 ( 0.00%) 1520878.00 ( -5.18%) 1454024.00 ( -0.56%) Ops minorfaults-715M 1557288.00 ( 0.00%) 1528482.00 ( 1.85%) 1535776.00 ( 1.38%) Ops minorfaults-2385M 1692896.00 ( 0.00%) 1570523.00 ( 7.23%) 1559622.00 ( 7.87%) Ops minorfaults-4055M 1654985.00 ( 0.00%) 1581456.00 ( 4.44%) 1596713.00 ( 3.52%) Ops majorfaults-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 1.00 (-99.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops majorfaults-715M 763.00 ( 0.00%) 265.00 ( 65.27%) 75.00 ( 90.17%) Ops majorfaults-2385M 23861.00 ( 0.00%) 894.00 ( 96.25%) 2189.00 ( 90.83%) Ops majorfaults-4055M 27210.00 ( 0.00%) 1569.00 ( 94.23%) 4088.00 ( 84.98%) 1. Performance does not collapse due to IO which is good. IO is also completing faster. Note with mmotm, IO completes in a third of the time and faster again with this series applied 2. Swapping is reduced, although not eliminated. The figures for the follow-up look bad but it does vary a bit as the stalling is not perfect for nfs or filesystems like ext3 with unusual handling of dirty and writeback pages 3. There are swapins, particularly with larger amounts of IO indicating that active pages are being reclaimed. However, the number of much reduced. 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Minor Faults 36339175 35025445 35219699 Major Faults 310964 27108 51887 Swap Ins 2176399 173069 333316 Swap Outs 3344050 357228 504824 Direct pages scanned 8972 77283 43242 Kswapd pages scanned 20899983 8939566 14772851 Kswapd pages reclaimed 6193156 5172605 5231026 Direct pages reclaimed 8450 73802 39514 Kswapd efficiency 29% 57% 35% Kswapd velocity 3929.743 1847.499 3058.840 Direct efficiency 94% 95% 91% Direct velocity 1.687 15.972 8.954 Percentage direct scans 0% 0% 0% Zone normal velocity 3721.907 939.103 2185.142 Zone dma32 velocity 209.522 924.368 882.651 Zone dma velocity 0.000 0.000 0.000 Page writes by reclaim 4082185.000 526319.000 537114.000 Page writes file 738135 169091 32290 Page writes anon 3344050 357228 504824 Page reclaim immediate 9524 170 5595843 Sector Reads 8909900 861192 1483680 Sector Writes 13428980 1488744 2076800 Page rescued immediate 0 0 0 Slabs scanned 38016 31744 28672 Direct inode steals 0 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 424 0 0 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 0 THP fault alloc 14 15 119 THP collapse alloc 1767 1569 1618 THP splits 30 29 25 THP fault fallback 0 0 0 THP collapse fail 8 5 0 Compaction stalls 17 41 100 Compaction success 7 31 95 Compaction failures 10 10 5 Page migrate success 7083 22157 62217 Page migrate failure 0 0 0 Compaction pages isolated 14847 48758 135830 Compaction migrate scanned 18328 48398 138929 Compaction free scanned 2000255 355827 1720269 Compaction cost 7 24 68 I guess the main takeaway again is the much reduced page writes from reclaim context and reduced reads. 3.9.0 3.9.0 3.9.0 vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10 Mean sda-avgqz 23.58 0.35 0.44 Mean sda-await 133.47 15.72 15.46 Mean sda-r_await 4.72 4.69 3.95 Mean sda-w_await 507.69 28.40 33.68 Max sda-avgqz 680.60 12.25 23.14 Max sda-await 3958.89 221.83 286.22 Max sda-r_await 63.86 61.23 67.29 Max sda-w_await 11710.38 883.57 1767.28 And as before, write wait times are much reduced. This patch: The patch "mm: vmscan: Have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, not priority" decides whether to writeback pages from reclaim context based on the number of dirty pages encountered. This situation is flagged too easily and flushers are not given the chance to catch up resulting in more pages being written from reclaim context and potentially impacting IO performance. The check for PageWriteback is also misplaced as it happens within a PageDirty check which is nonsense as the dirty may have been cleared for IO. The accounting is updated very late and pages that are already under writeback, were reactivated, could not unmapped or could not be released are all missed. Similarly, a page is considered congested for reasons other than being congested and pages that cannot be written out in the correct context are skipped. Finally, it considers stalling and writing back filesystem pages due to encountering dirty anonymous pages at the tail of the LRU which is dumb. This patch causes kswapd to begin writing filesystem pages from reclaim context only if page reclaim found that all filesystem pages at the tail of the LRU were unqueued dirty pages. Before it starts writing filesystem pages, it will stall to give flushers a chance to catch up. The decision on whether wait_iff_congested is also now determined by dirty filesystem pages only. Congested pages are based on whether the underlying BDI is congested regardless of the context of the reclaiming process. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: move logic from balance_pgdat() to kswapd_shrink_zone()Mel Gorman
balance_pgdat() is very long and some of the logic can and should be internal to kswapd_shrink_zone(). Move it so the flow of balance_pgdat() is marginally easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scanMel Gorman
Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks each zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or not. This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either. This patch checks once per pgdat scan if kswapd should be writing pages. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writebackMel Gorman
Historically, kswapd used to congestion_wait() at higher priorities if it was not making forward progress. This made no sense as the failure to make progress could be completely independent of IO. It was later replaced by wait_iff_congested() and removed entirely by commit 258401a6 (mm: don't wait on congested zones in balance_pgdat()) as it was duplicating logic in shrink_inactive_list(). This is problematic. If kswapd encounters many pages under writeback and it continues to scan until it reaches the high watermark then it will quickly skip over the pages under writeback and reclaim clean young pages or push applications out to swap. The use of wait_iff_congested() is not suited to kswapd as it will only stall if the underlying BDI is really congested or a direct reclaimer was unable to write to the underlying BDI. kswapd bypasses the BDI congestion as it sets PF_SWAPWRITE but even if this was taken into account then it would cause direct reclaimers to stall on writeback which is not desirable. This patch sets a ZONE_WRITEBACK flag if direct reclaim or kswapd is encountering too many pages under writeback. If this flag is set and kswapd encounters a PageReclaim page under writeback then it'll assume that the LRU lists are being recycled too quickly before IO can complete and block waiting for some IO to complete. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, ↵Mel Gorman
not priority Currently kswapd queues dirty pages for writeback if scanning at an elevated priority but the priority kswapd scans at is not related to the number of unqueued dirty encountered. Since commit "mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop", the priority is related to the size of the LRU and the zone watermark which is no indication as to whether kswapd should write pages or not. This patch tracks if an excessive number of unqueued dirty pages are being encountered at the end of the LRU. If so, it indicates that dirty pages are being recycled before flusher threads can clean them and flags the zone so that kswapd will start writing pages until the zone is balanced. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priorityMel Gorman
Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is considered to be a near OOM condition. Kswapd can reach priority 0 quite easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot reclaim such as pages under writeback. When this happens, kswapd reclaims very aggressively even though there may be no real risk of allocation failure or OOM. This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the world. Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an OOM situation. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progressMel Gorman
In the past, kswapd makes a decision on whether to compact memory after the pgdat was considered balanced. This more or less worked but it is late to make such a decision and does not fit well now that kswapd makes a decision whether to exit the zone scanning loop depending on reclaim progress. This patch will compact a pgdat if at least the requested number of pages were reclaimed from unbalanced zones for a given priority. If any zone is currently balanced, kswapd will not call compaction as it is expected the necessary pages are already available. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: flatten kswapd priority loopMel Gorman
kswapd stops raising the scanning priority when at least SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed or the pgdat is considered balanced. It then rechecks if it needs to restart at DEF_PRIORITY and whether high-order reclaim needs to be reset. This is not wrong per-se but it is confusing to follow and forcing kswapd to stay at DEF_PRIORITY may require several restarts before it has scanned enough pages to meet the high watermark even at 100% efficiency. This patch irons out the logic a bit by controlling when priority is raised and removing the "goto loop_again". This patch has kswapd raise the scanning priority until it is scanning enough pages that it could meet the high watermark in one shrink of the LRU lists if it is able to reclaim at 100% efficiency. It will not raise the scanning prioirty higher unless it is failing to reclaim any pages. To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least twice the number of pages as the allocation request. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapdMel Gorman
Simplistically, the anon and file LRU lists are scanned proportionally depending on the value of vm.swappiness although there are other factors taken into account by get_scan_count(). The patch "mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims" limits the number of pages kswapd reclaims but it breaks this proportional scanning and may evenly shrink anon/file LRUs regardless of vm.swappiness. This patch preserves the proportional scanning and reclaim. It does mean that kswapd will reclaim more than requested but the number of pages will be related to the high watermark. [mhocko@suse.cz: Correct proportional reclaim for memcg and simplify] [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Recalculate scan based on target] [hannes@cmpxchg.org: Account for already scanned pages properly] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03mm: vmscan: limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priorityMel Gorman
This series does not fix all the current known problems with reclaim but it addresses one important swapping bug when there is background IO. Changelog since V3 - Drop the slab shrink changes in light of Glaubers series and discussions highlighted that there were a number of potential problems with the patch. (mel) - Rebased to 3.10-rc1 Changelog since V2 - Preserve ratio properly for proportional scanning (kamezawa) Changelog since V1 - Rename ZONE_DIRTY to ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY (andi) - Reformat comment in shrink_page_list (andi) - Clarify some comments (dhillf) - Rework how the proportional scanning is preserved - Add PageReclaim check before kswapd starts writeback - Reset sc.nr_reclaimed on every full zone scan Kswapd and page reclaim behaviour has been screwy in one way or the other for a long time. Very broadly speaking it worked in the far past because machines were limited in memory so it did not have that many pages to scan and it stalled congestion_wait() frequently to prevent it going completely nuts. In recent times it has behaved very unsatisfactorily with some of the problems compounded by the removal of stall logic and the introduction of transparent hugepage support with high-order reclaims. There are many variations of bugs that are rooted in this area. One example is reports of a large copy operations or backup causing the machine to grind to a halt or applications pushed to swap. Sometimes in low memory situations a large percentage of memory suddenly gets reclaimed. In other cases an application starts and kswapd hits 100% CPU usage for prolonged periods of time and so on. There is now talk of introducing features like an extra free kbytes tunable to work around aspects of the problem instead of trying to deal with it. It's compounded by the problem that it can be very workload and machine specific. This series aims at addressing some of the worst of these problems without attempting to fundmentally alter how page reclaim works. Patches 1-2 limits the number of pages kswapd reclaims while still obeying the anon/file proportion of the LRUs it should be scanning. Patches 3-4 control how and when kswapd raises its scanning priority and deletes the scanning restart logic which is tricky to follow. Patch 5 notes that it is too easy for kswapd to reach priority 0 when scanning and then reclaim the world. Down with that sort of thing. Patch 6 notes that kswapd starts writeback based on scanning priority which is not necessarily related to dirty pages. It will have kswapd writeback pages if a number of unqueued dirty pages have been recently encountered at the tail of the LRU. Patch 7 notes that sometimes kswapd should stall waiting on IO to complete to reduce LRU churn and the likelihood that it'll reclaim young clean pages or push applications to swap. It will cause kswapd to block on IO if it detects that pages being reclaimed under writeback are recycling through the LRU before the IO completes. Patchies 8-9 are cosmetic but balance_pgdat() is easier to follow after they are applied. This was tested using memcached+memcachetest while some background IO was in progress as implemented by the parallel IO tests implement in MM Tests. memcachetest benchmarks how many operations/second memcached can service and it is run multiple times. It starts with no background IO and then re-runs the test with larger amounts of IO in the background to roughly simulate a large copy in progress. The expectation is that the IO should have little or no impact on memcachetest which is running entirely in memory. 3.10.0-rc1 3.10.0-rc1 vanilla lessdisrupt-v4 Ops memcachetest-0M 22155.00 ( 0.00%) 22180.00 ( 0.11%) Ops memcachetest-715M 22720.00 ( 0.00%) 22355.00 ( -1.61%) Ops memcachetest-2385M 3939.00 ( 0.00%) 23450.00 (495.33%) Ops memcachetest-4055M 3628.00 ( 0.00%) 24341.00 (570.92%) Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops io-duration-715M 12.00 ( 0.00%) 7.00 ( 41.67%) Ops io-duration-2385M 118.00 ( 0.00%) 21.00 ( 82.20%) Ops io-duration-4055M 162.00 ( 0.00%) 36.00 ( 77.78%) Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-715M 140134.00 ( 0.00%) 18.00 ( 99.99%) Ops swaptotal-2385M 392438.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swaptotal-4055M 449037.00 ( 0.00%) 27864.00 ( 93.79%) Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-715M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-2385M 148031.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops swapin-4055M 135109.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops minorfaults-0M 1529984.00 ( 0.00%) 1530235.00 ( -0.02%) Ops minorfaults-715M 1794168.00 ( 0.00%) 1613750.00 ( 10.06%) Ops minorfaults-2385M 1739813.00 ( 0.00%) 1609396.00 ( 7.50%) Ops minorfaults-4055M 1754460.00 ( 0.00%) 1614810.00 ( 7.96%) Ops majorfaults-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Ops majorfaults-715M 185.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 2.70%) Ops majorfaults-2385M 24472.00 ( 0.00%) 101.00 ( 99.59%) Ops majorfaults-4055M 22302.00 ( 0.00%) 229.00 ( 98.97%) Note how the vanilla kernels performance collapses when there is enough IO taking place in the background. This drop in performance is part of what users complain of when they start backups. Note how the swapin and major fault figures indicate that processes were being pushed to swap prematurely. With the series applied, there is no noticable performance drop and while there is still some swap activity, it's tiny. 20 iterations of this test were run in total and averaged. Every 5 iterations, additional IO was generated in the background using dd to measure how the workload was impacted. The 0M, 715M, 2385M and 4055M subblock refer to the amount of IO going on in the background at each iteration. So memcachetest-2385M is reporting how many transactions/second memcachetest recorded on average over 5 iterations while there was 2385M of IO going on in the ground. There are six blocks of information reported here memcachetest is the transactions/second reported by memcachetest. In the vanilla kernel note that performance drops from around 22K/sec to just under 4K/second when there is 2385M of IO going on in the background. This is one type of performance collapse users complain about if a large cp or backup starts in the background io-duration refers to how long it takes for the background IO to complete. It's showing that with the patched kernel that the IO completes faster while not interfering with the memcache workload swaptotal is the total amount of swap traffic. With the patched kernel, the total amount of swapping is much reduced although it is still not zero. swapin in this case is an indication as to whether we are swap trashing. The closer the swapin/swapout ratio is to 1, the worse the trashing is. Note with the patched kernel that there is no swapin activity indicating that all the pages swapped were really inactive unused pages. minorfaults are just minor faults. An increased number of minor faults can indicate that page reclaim is unmapping the pages but not swapping them out before they are faulted back in. With the patched kernel, there is only a small change in minor faults majorfaults are just major faults in the target workload and a high number can indicate that a workload is being prematurely swapped. With the patched kernel, major faults are much reduced. As there are no swapin's recorded so it's not being swapped. The likely explanation is that that libraries or configuration files used by the workload during startup get paged out by the background IO. Overall with the series applied, there is no noticable performance drop due to background IO and while there is still some swap activity, it's tiny and the lack of swapins imply that the swapped pages were inactive and unused. 3.10.0-rc1 3.10.0-rc1 vanilla lessdisrupt-v4 Page Ins 1234608 101892 Page Outs 12446272 11810468 Swap Ins 283406 0 Swap Outs 698469 27882 Direct pages scanned 0 136480 Kswapd pages scanned 6266537 5369364 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1088989 930832 Direct pages reclaimed 0 120901 Kswapd efficiency 17% 17% Kswapd velocity 5398.371 4635.115 Direct efficiency 100% 88% Direct velocity 0.000 117.817 Percentage direct scans 0% 2% Page writes by reclaim 1655843 4009929 Page writes file 957374 3982047 Page writes anon 698469 27882 Page reclaim immediate 5245 1745 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 33664 25216 Direct inode steals 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 19409 778 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 THP fault alloc 35 30 THP collapse alloc 472 401 THP splits 27 22 THP fault fallback 0 0 THP collapse fail 0 1 Compaction stalls 0 4 Compaction success 0 0 Compaction failures 0 4 Page migrate success 0 0 Page migrate failure 0 0 Compaction pages isolated 0 0 Compaction migrate scanned 0 0 Compaction free scanned 0 0 Compaction cost 0 0 NUMA PTE updates 0 0 NUMA hint faults 0 0 NUMA hint local faults 0 0 NUMA pages migrated 0 0 AutoNUMA cost 0 0 Unfortunately, note that there is a small amount of direct reclaim due to kswapd no longer reclaiming the world. ftrace indicates that the direct reclaim stalls are mostly harmless with the vast bulk of the stalls incurred by dd 23 tclsh-3367 38 memcachetest-13733 49 memcachetest-12443 57 tee-3368 1541 dd-13826 1981 dd-12539 A consequence of the direct reclaim for dd is that the processes for the IO workload may show a higher system CPU usage. There is also a risk that kswapd not reclaiming the world may mean that it stays awake balancing zones, does not stall on the appropriate events and continually scans pages it cannot reclaim consuming CPU. This will be visible as continued high CPU usage but in my own tests I only saw a single spike lasting less than a second and I did not observe any problems related to reclaim while running the series on my desktop. This patch: The number of pages kswapd can reclaim is bound by the number of pages it scans which is related to the size of the zone and the scanning priority. In many cases the priority remains low because it's reset every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX reclaimed pages but in the event kswapd scans a large number of pages it cannot reclaim, it will raise the priority and potentially discard a large percentage of the zone as sc->nr_to_reclaim is ULONG_MAX. The user-visible effect is a reclaim "spike" where a large percentage of memory is suddenly freed. It would be bad enough if this was just unused memory but because of how anon/file pages are balanced it is possible that applications get pushed to swap unnecessarily. This patch limits the number of pages kswapd will reclaim to the high watermark. Reclaim will still overshoot due to it not being a hard limit as shrink_lruvec() will ignore the sc.nr_to_reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY but it prevents kswapd reclaiming the world at higher priorities. The number of pages it reclaims is not adjusted for high-order allocations as kswapd will reclaim excessively if it is to balance zones for high-order allocations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaimShaohua Li
In page reclaim, huge page is split. split_huge_page() adds tail pages to LRU list. Since we are reclaiming a huge page, it's better we reclaim all subpages of the huge page instead of just the head page. This patch adds split tail pages to shrink page list so the tail pages can be reclaimed soon. Before this patch, run a swap workload: thp_fault_alloc 3492 thp_fault_fallback 608 thp_collapse_alloc 6 thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 thp_split 916 With this patch: thp_fault_alloc 4085 thp_fault_fallback 16 thp_collapse_alloc 90 thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 thp_split 1272 fallback allocation is reduced a lot. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29memcg: add memory.pressure_level eventsAnton Vorontsov
With this patch userland applications that want to maintain the interactivity/memory allocation cost can use the pressure level notifications. The levels are defined like this: The "low" level means that the system is reclaiming memory for new allocations. Monitoring this reclaiming activity might be useful for maintaining cache level. Upon notification, the program (typically "Activity Manager") might analyze vmstat and act in advance (i.e. prematurely shutdown unimportant services). The "medium" level means that the system is experiencing medium memory pressure, the system might be making swap, paging out active file caches, etc. Upon this event applications may decide to further analyze vmstat/zoneinfo/memcg or internal memory usage statistics and free any resources that can be easily reconstructed or re-read from a disk. The "critical" level means that the system is actively thrashing, it is about to out of memory (OOM) or even the in-kernel OOM killer is on its way to trigger. Applications should do whatever they can to help the system. It might be too late to consult with vmstat or any other statistics, so it's advisable to take an immediate action. The events are propagated upward until the event is handled, i.e. the events are not pass-through. Here is what this means: for example you have three cgroups: A->B->C. Now you set up an event listener on cgroups A, B and C, and suppose group C experiences some pressure. In this situation, only group C will receive the notification, i.e. groups A and B will not receive it. This is done to avoid excessive "broadcasting" of messages, which disturbs the system and which is especially bad if we are low on memory or thrashing. So, organize the cgroups wisely, or propagate the events manually (or, ask us to implement the pass-through events, explaining why would you need them.) Performance wise, the memory pressure notifications feature itself is lightweight and does not require much of bookkeeping, in contrast to the rest of memcg features. Unfortunately, as of current memcg implementation, pages accounting is an inseparable part and cannot be turned off. The good news is that there are some efforts[1] to improve the situation; plus, implementing the same, fully API-compatible[2] interface for CONFIG_MEMCG=n case (e.g. embedded) is also a viable option, so it will not require any changes on the userland side. [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/6291 [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/454 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CGROPUPS=n warnings] Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm/vmscan.c: minor cleanup for kswapdHillf Danton
Local variable total_scanned is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-17mm/vmscan: fix error return in kswapd_run()Xishi Qiu
Fix the error return value in kswapd_run(). The bug was introduced by commit d5dc0ad928fb ("mm/vmscan: fix error number for failed kthread"). Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23vmscan: change type of vm_total_pages to unsigned longZhang Yanfei
This variable is calculated from nr_free_pagecache_pages so change its type to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23mm: use up free swap space before reaching OOM killMinchan Kim
Recently, Luigi reported there are lots of free swap space when OOM happens. It's easily reproduced on zram-over-swap, where many instance of memory hogs are running and laptop_mode is enabled. He said there was no problem when he disabled laptop_mode. The problem when I investigate problem is following as. Assumption for easy explanation: There are no page cache page in system because they all are already reclaimed. 1. try_to_free_pages disable may_writepage when laptop_mode is enabled. 2. shrink_inactive_list isolates victim pages from inactive anon lru list. 3. shrink_page_list adds them to swapcache via add_to_swap but it doesn't pageout because sc->may_writepage is 0 so the page is rotated back into inactive anon lru list. The add_to_swap made the page Dirty by SetPageDirty. 4. 3 couldn't reclaim any pages so do_try_to_free_pages increase priority and retry reclaim with higher priority. 5. shrink_inactlive_list try to isolate victim pages from inactive anon lru list but got failed because it try to isolate pages with ISOLATE_CLEAN mode but inactive anon lru list is full of dirty pages by 3 so it just returns without any reclaim progress. 6. do_try_to_free_pages doesn't set may_writepage due to zero total_scanned. Because sc->nr_scanned is increased by shrink_page_list but we don't call shrink_page_list in 5 due to short of isolated pages. Above loop is continued until OOM happens. The problem didn't happen before [1] was merged because old logic's isolatation in shrink_inactive_list was successful and tried to call shrink_page_list to pageout them but it still ends up failed to page out by may_writepage. But important point is that sc->nr_scanned was increased although we couldn't swap out them so do_try_to_free_pages could set may_writepages. Since commit f80c0673610e ("mm: zone_reclaim: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware") was introduced, it's not a good idea any more to depends on only the number of scanned pages for setting may_writepage. So this patch adds new trigger point of setting may_writepage as below DEF_PRIOIRTY - 2 which is used to show the significant memory pressure in VM so it's good fit for our purpose which would be better to lose power saving or clickety rather than OOM killing. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reported-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>