To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page
tables to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages. A kill switch
will be added in the next patch to disable this behavior. When
disabled, the aging relies on the rmap only.
NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in
the 2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold
pages to swapcache and unmaps them.
To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the
traversal of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied
to page tables and the rmap, as usual.
An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct
follows its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated.
Given an lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls
walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot
pages before it increments max_seq.
When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them
gets a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently. Page
table walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was
migrated, pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted
when its current memcg is under reclaim. Similarly, page table walkers
will not promote pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim.
This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables:
1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that
page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since
the last iteration.
2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so
that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the
query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or
misplaced pages.
3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y.
4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table
spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the
range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This
improves the cache performance for workloads that have large
numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5.
Server benchmark results:
Single workload:
fio (buffered I/O): no change
Single workload:
memcached (anon): +[5.5, 7.5]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-7: 1014393.57 39455.42
patch1-8: 1078507.59 41949.15
Configurations:
no change
Client benchmark results:
kswapd profiles:
patch1-7
45.54% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
9.56% page_vma_mapped_walk
6.70% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
2.78% ptep_clear_flush
2.47% do_raw_spin_lock
2.22% __zram_bvec_write
1.87% lru_gen_look_around
1.78% memmove
1.77% obj_malloc
1.44% free_unref_page_list
patch1-8
47.02% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
6.73% page_vma_mapped_walk
6.14% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
3.39% walk_pte_range
2.63% ptep_clear_flush
2.29% __zram_bvec_write
2.10% do_raw_spin_lock
1.81% memmove
1.73% obj_malloc
1.53% free_unref_page_list
Configurations:
no change
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/
[2] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309021230.721028-9-yuzhao@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Bug: 228114874
Change-Id: I5a3c97cf8ebf8d65d5f9528cd979a637c190053e
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