[PATCH 32/34] mm: vmstat: account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaim

[Mel Gorman]

The vmstat allocstall was fairly useful in the general sense but
node-based LRUs change that.  It's important to know if a stall was for an
address-limited allocation request as this will require skipping pages
from other zones.  This patch adds pgstall_* counters to replace
allocstall.  The sum of the counters will equal the old allocstall so it
can be trivially recalculated.  A high number of address-limited
allocation requests may result in a lot of useless LRU scanning for
suitable pages.

As address-limited allocations require pages to be skipped, it's important
to know how much useless LRU scanning took place so this patch adds
pgskip* counters.  This yields the following model

1. The number of address-space limited stalls can be accounted for (pgstall)
2. The amount of useless work required to reclaim the data is accounted (pgskip)
3. The total number of scans is available from pgscan_kswapd and pgscan_direct
   so from that the ratio of useful to useless scans can be calculated.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/vm_event_item.h |  4 +++-
 mm/vmscan.c                   | 15 +++++++++++++--
 mm/vmstat.c                   |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index 1798ff542517..6d47f66f0e9c 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 		FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGALLOC),
+		FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSTALL),
+		FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_SKIP),
 		PGFREE, PGACTIVATE, PGDEACTIVATE,
 		PGFAULT, PGMAJFAULT,
 		PGLAZYFREED,
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 #endif
 		PGINODESTEAL, SLABS_SCANNED, KSWAPD_INODESTEAL,
 		KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY, KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY,
-		PAGEOUTRUN, ALLOCSTALL, PGROTATED,
+		PAGEOUTRUN, PGROTATED,
 		DROP_PAGECACHE, DROP_SLAB,
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 		NUMA_PTE_UPDATES,
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bbd77fa4ec6a..a8b432ff0d14 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 	struct list_head *src = &lruvec->lists[lru];
 	unsigned long nr_taken = 0;
 	unsigned long nr_zone_taken[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0 };
+	unsigned long nr_skipped[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, };
 	unsigned long scan, nr_pages;
 	LIST_HEAD(pages_skipped);
 
@@ -1408,6 +1409,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 
 		if (page_zonenum(page) > sc->reclaim_idx) {
 			list_move(&page->lru, &pages_skipped);
+			nr_skipped[page_zonenum(page)]++;
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -1436,8 +1438,17 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 	 * scanning would soon rescan the same pages to skip and put the
 	 * system at risk of premature OOM.
 	 */
-	if (!list_empty(&pages_skipped))
+	if (!list_empty(&pages_skipped)) {
+		int zid;
+
 		list_splice(&pages_skipped, src);
+		for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) {
+			if (!nr_skipped[zid])
+				continue;
+
+			__count_zid_vm_events(PGSCAN_SKIP, zid, nr_skipped[zid]);
+		}
+	}
 	*nr_scanned = scan;
 	trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->reclaim_idx, sc->order, nr_to_scan, scan,
 				    nr_taken, mode, is_file_lru(lru));
@@ -2679,7 +2690,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 	delayacct_freepages_start();
 
 	if (global_reclaim(sc))
-		count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
+		__count_zid_vm_events(PGSTALL, sc->reclaim_idx, 1);
 
 	do {
 		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index ab7f78995c89..af070cf5e762 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -983,6 +983,8 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"pswpout",
 
 	TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgalloc")
+	TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgstall")
+	TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgskip")
 
 	"pgfree",
 	"pgactivate",
@@ -1008,7 +1010,6 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 	"kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly",
 	"kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly",
 	"pageoutrun",
-	"allocstall",
 
 	"pgrotated",
 
-- 
2.6.4