[ 20/41] mm: zone_reclaim: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 30 2012 - 13:39:25 EST


From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f80c0673610e36ae29d63e3297175e22f70dde5f upstream.

Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. THP and compaction disrupt the LRU list
leading to poor reclaim decisions which has a variable
performance impact.

In __zone_reclaim case, we don't want to shrink mapped page. Nonetheless,
we have isolated mapped page and re-add it into LRU's head. It's
unnecessary CPU overhead and makes LRU churning.

Of course, when we isolate the page, the page might be mapped but when we
try to migrate the page, the page would be not mapped. So it could be
migrated. But race is rare and although it happens, it's no big deal.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++
mm/vmscan.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ static inline int is_unevictable_lru(enu
#define ISOLATE_ACTIVE ((__force isolate_mode_t)0x2)
/* Isolate clean file */
#define ISOLATE_CLEAN ((__force isolate_mode_t)0x4)
+/* Isolate unmapped file */
+#define ISOLATE_UNMAPPED ((__force isolate_mode_t)0x8)

/* LRU Isolation modes. */
typedef unsigned __bitwise__ isolate_mode_t;
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1048,6 +1048,9 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page
if ((mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN) && (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page)))
return ret;

+ if ((mode & ISOLATE_UNMAPPED) && page_mapped(page))
+ return ret;
+
if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
/*
* Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
@@ -1471,6 +1474,12 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to
reclaim_mode |= ISOLATE_ACTIVE;

lru_add_drain();
+
+ if (!sc->may_unmap)
+ reclaim_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
+ if (!sc->may_writepage)
+ reclaim_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
+
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);

if (scanning_global_lru(sc)) {
@@ -1588,19 +1597,26 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
struct page *page;
struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
unsigned long nr_rotated = 0;
+ isolate_mode_t reclaim_mode = ISOLATE_ACTIVE;

lru_add_drain();
+
+ if (!sc->may_unmap)
+ reclaim_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
+ if (!sc->may_writepage)
+ reclaim_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
+
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
if (scanning_global_lru(sc)) {
nr_taken = isolate_pages_global(nr_pages, &l_hold,
&pgscanned, sc->order,
- ISOLATE_ACTIVE, zone,
+ reclaim_mode, zone,
1, file);
zone->pages_scanned += pgscanned;
} else {
nr_taken = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(nr_pages, &l_hold,
&pgscanned, sc->order,
- ISOLATE_ACTIVE, zone,
+ reclaim_mode, zone,
sc->mem_cgroup, 1, file);
/*
* mem_cgroup_isolate_pages() keeps track of


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