[RFC][PATCH 7/9] mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap

[Dave Hansen]

From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>

Age and reclaim anonymous pages if a migration path is available. The
node has other recourses for inactive anonymous pages beyond swap,

#Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
[vishal: fixup the migration->demotion rename]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

--

Changes from Dave 06/2020:
 * rename reclaim_anon_pages()->can_reclaim_anon_pages()

Note: Keith's Intel SoB is commented out because he is no
longer at Intel and his @intel.com mail will bouncee
---

 b/include/linux/node.h |    9 +++++++++
 b/mm/vmscan.c          |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/node.h~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap include/linux/node.h
--- a/include/linux/node.h~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap	2020-08-18 11:36:55.284583173 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/node.h	2020-08-18 11:36:55.290583173 -0700
@@ -180,4 +180,13 @@ static inline void register_hugetlbfs_wi
 
 #define to_node(device) container_of(device, struct node, dev)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
+extern int next_demotion_node(int node);
+#else
+static inline int next_demotion_node(int node)
+{
+	return NUMA_NO_NODE;
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_NODE_H_ */
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap	2020-08-18 11:36:55.286583173 -0700
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c	2020-08-18 11:36:55.292583173 -0700
@@ -295,6 +295,26 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(st
 }
 #endif
 
+static inline bool can_reclaim_anon_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+					  int node_id)
+{
+	/* Always age anon pages when we have swap */
+	if (memcg == NULL) {
+		if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+			return true;
+	} else {
+		if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) > 0)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	/* Also age anon pages if we can auto-migrate them */
+	if (next_demotion_node(node_id) >= 0)
+		return true;
+
+	/* No way to reclaim anon pages */
+	return false;
+}
+
 /*
  * This misses isolated pages which are not accounted for to save counters.
  * As the data only determines if reclaim or compaction continues, it is
@@ -306,7 +326,7 @@ unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(str
 
 	nr = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE) +
 		zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE);
-	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+	if (can_reclaim_anon_pages(NULL, zone_to_nid(zone)))
 		nr += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON) +
 			zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON);
 
@@ -2338,6 +2358,7 @@ enum scan_balance {
 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 			   unsigned long *nr)
 {
+	struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	unsigned long anon_cost, file_cost, total_cost;
 	int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
@@ -2348,7 +2369,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
 	enum lru_list lru;
 
 	/* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
-	if (!sc->may_swap || mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) <= 0) {
+	if (!sc->may_swap || !can_reclaim_anon_pages(memcg, pgdat->node_id)) {
 		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -2631,7 +2652,9 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec
 	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
 	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
 	 */
-	if (total_swap_pages && inactive_is_low(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON))
+	if (can_reclaim_anon_pages(lruvec_memcg(lruvec),
+			       lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->node_id) &&
+	    inactive_is_low(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON))
 		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
 				   sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
 }
@@ -2701,7 +2724,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_recla
 	 */
 	pages_for_compaction = compact_gap(sc->order);
 	inactive_lru_pages = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
-	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+	if (can_reclaim_anon_pages(NULL, pgdat->node_id))
 		inactive_lru_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 
 	return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction;
@@ -3462,7 +3485,7 @@ static void age_active_anon(struct pglis
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 
-	if (!total_swap_pages)
+	if (!can_reclaim_anon_pages(NULL, pgdat->node_id))
 		return;
 
 	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(NULL, pgdat);
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