Re: [PATCH] mm: readahead: improve mmap_miss heuristic for concurrent faults

[Roman Gushchin]

Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri 15-08-25 11:32:24, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>> If two or more threads of an application faulting on the same folio,
>> the mmap_miss counter can be decreased multiple times. It breaks the
>> mmap_miss heuristic and keeps the readahead enabled even under extreme
>> levels of memory pressure.
>> 
>> It happens often if file folios backing a multi-threaded application
>> are getting evicted and re-faulted.
>> 
>> Fix it by skipping decreasing mmap_miss if the folio is locked.
>> 
>> This change was evaluated on several hundred thousands hosts in Google's
>> production over a couple of weeks. The number of containers being
>> stuck in a vicious reclaim cycle for a long time was reduced several
>> fold (~10-20x), as well as the overall fleet-wide cpu time spent in
>> direct memory reclaim was meaningfully reduced. No regressions were
>> observed.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Looks good! Feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thank you!