Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2] mm: swap: clean up swap readahead

From: Huang\, Ying
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 00:19:00 EST


Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 04:02:27PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> [snip]
>>
>> > diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
>> > index 39ae7cfad90f..c56cce64b2c3 100644
>> > --- a/mm/swap_state.c
>> > +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
>> > @@ -332,32 +332,38 @@ struct page *lookup_swap_cache(swp_entry_t entry, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> > unsigned long addr)
>> > {
>> > struct page *page;
>> > - unsigned long ra_info;
>> > - int win, hits, readahead;
>> >
>> > page = find_get_page(swap_address_space(entry), swp_offset(entry));
>> >
>> > INC_CACHE_INFO(find_total);
>> > if (page) {
>> > + bool vma_ra = swap_use_vma_readahead();
>> > + bool readahead = TestClearPageReadahead(page);
>> > +
>>
>> TestClearPageReadahead() cannot be called for compound page. As in
>>
>> PAGEFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
>> TESTCLEARFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
>>
>> > INC_CACHE_INFO(find_success);
>> > if (unlikely(PageTransCompound(page)))
>> > return page;
>> > - readahead = TestClearPageReadahead(page);
>>
>> So we can only call it here after checking whether page is compound.
>
> Hi Huang,
>
> Thanks for cathing this.
> However, I don't see the reason we should rule out THP page for
> readahead marker. Could't we relax the rule?
>
> I hope we can do so that we could remove PageTransCompound check
> for readahead marker, which makes code ugly.
>
> From 748b084d5c3960ec2418d8c51a678aada30f1072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:43 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: relax policy for PG_readahead
>
> This flag is in use for anon THP page so let's relax it.
>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/page-flags.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index e34a27727b9a..f12d4dfae580 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ PAGEFLAG(MappedToDisk, mappedtodisk, PF_NO_TAIL)
> /* PG_readahead is only used for reads; PG_reclaim is only for writes */
> PAGEFLAG(Reclaim, reclaim, PF_NO_TAIL)
> TESTCLEARFLAG(Reclaim, reclaim, PF_NO_TAIL)
> -PAGEFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> - TESTCLEARFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> +PAGEFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_TAIL)
> + TESTCLEARFLAG(Readahead, reclaim, PF_NO_TAIL)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> /*

We never set Readahead bit for THP in reality. The original code acts
as document for this. I don't think it is a good idea to change this
without a good reason.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying