[RFC PATCH 0/4] Reduce tree_lock contention during swap and reclaim of a single file v1

[Mel Gorman]

This is a follow-on series from the thread "[lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700:
aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression" with active parties cc'd.  I've
pushed the series to git.kernel.org where the LKP robot should pick it
up automatically.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git mm-reclaim-contention-v1r15

The progression of this series has been unsatisfactory. Dave originally
reported a problem with tree_lock contention and while it can be fixed
by pushing reclaim to direct reclaim, it slows swap considerably and was
not a universal win. This series is the best balance I've found so far
between the swapping and large rewriter cases.

I never reliably produced the same contentions that Dave did so testing
is needed.  Dave, ideally you would test patches 1+2 and patches 1+4 but
a test of patches 1+3 would also be nice if you have the time. Minimally,
I'm expected that patches 1+2 will help the swapping-to-fast-storage case
(LKP to confirm independently) and may be worth considering on their own
even if Dave's test case is not helped.

 drivers/block/brd.c |   1 +
 mm/vmscan.c         | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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