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2024-11-11mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback functionKairui Song1-8/+7
Now isolation no longer takes the list_lru global node lock, only use the per-cgroup lock instead. And this lock is inside the list_lru_one being walked, no longer needed to pass the lock explicitly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-7-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-11mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scopeKairui Song1-1/+0
Currently, every list_lru has a per-node lock that protects adding, deletion, isolation, and reparenting of all list_lru_one instances belonging to this list_lru on this node. This lock contention is heavy when multiple cgroups modify the same list_lru. This lock can be split into per-cgroup scope to reduce contention. To achieve this, we need a stable list_lru_one for every cgroup. This commit adds a lock to each list_lru_one and introduced a helper function lock_list_lru_of_memcg, making it possible to pin the list_lru of a memcg. Then reworked the reparenting process. Reparenting will switch the list_lru_one instances one by one. By locking each instance and marking it dead using the nr_items counter, reparenting ensures that all items in the corresponding cgroup (on-list or not, because items have a stable cgroup, see below) will see the list_lru_one switch synchronously. Objcg reparent is also moved after list_lru reparent so items will have a stable mem cgroup until all list_lru_one instances are drained. The only caller that doesn't work the *_obj interfaces are direct calls to list_lru_{add,del}. But it's only used by zswap and that's also based on objcg, so it's fine. This also changes the bahaviour of the isolation function when LRU_RETRY or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY is returned, because now releasing the lock could unblock reparenting and free the list_lru_one, isolation function will have to return withoug re-lock the lru. prepare() { mkdir /tmp/test-fs modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=33554432 mkfs.xfs -f /dev/ram0 mount -t xfs /dev/ram0 /tmp/test-fs for i in $(seq 1 512); do mkdir "/tmp/test-fs/$i" for j in $(seq 1 10240); do echo TEST-CONTENT > "/tmp/test-fs/$i/$j" done & done; wait } do_test() { read_worker() { sleep 1 tar -cv "$1" &>/dev/null } read_in_all() { cd "/tmp/test-fs" && ls for i in $(seq 1 512); do (exec sh -c 'echo "$PPID"') > "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i/cgroup.procs" read_worker "$i" & done; wait } for i in $(seq 1 512); do mkdir -p "/sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/$i" done echo +memory > /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/cgroup.subtree_control echo 512M > /sys/fs/cgroup/benchmark/memory.max echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches time read_in_all } Above script simulates compression of small files in multiple cgroups with memory pressure. Run prepare() then do_test for 6 times: Before: real 0m7.762s user 0m11.340s sys 3m11.224s real 0m8.123s user 0m11.548s sys 3m2.549s real 0m7.736s user 0m11.515s sys 3m11.171s real 0m8.539s user 0m11.508s sys 3m7.618s real 0m7.928s user 0m11.349s sys 3m13.063s real 0m8.105s user 0m11.128s sys 3m14.313s After this commit (about ~15% faster): real 0m6.953s user 0m11.327s sys 2m42.912s real 0m7.453s user 0m11.343s sys 2m51.942s real 0m6.916s user 0m11.269s sys 2m43.957s real 0m6.894s user 0m11.528s sys 2m45.346s real 0m6.911s user 0m11.095s sys 2m43.168s real 0m6.773s user 0m11.518s sys 2m40.774s Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-6-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-11mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parametersKairui Song1-2/+2
Patch series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope". When LOCKDEP is not enabled, lock_class_key is an empty struct that is never used. But the list_lru initialization function still takes a placeholder pointer as parameter, and the compiler cannot optimize it because the function is not static and exported. Remove this parameter and move it inside the list_lru struct. Only use it when LOCKDEP is enabled. Kernel builds with LOCKDEP will be slightly larger, while !LOCKDEP builds without it will be slightly smaller (the common case). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241104175257.60853-2-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-06memcg: workingset: remove folio_memcg_rcu usageShakeel Butt1-12/+2
The function workingset_activation() is called from folio_mark_accessed() with the guarantee that the given folio can not be freed under us in workingset_activation(). In addition, the association of the folio and its memcg can not be broken here because charge migration is no more. There is no need to use folio_memcg_rcu. Simply use folio_memcg_charged() because that is what this function cares about. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: provide folio_memcg_charged stub for CONFIG_MEMCG=n] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241026163707.2479526-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03cachestat: do not flush stats in recency checkNhat Pham1-3/+11
syzbot detects that cachestat() is flushing stats, which can sleep, in its RCU read section (see [1]). This is done in the workingset_test_recent() step (which checks if the folio's eviction is recent). Move the stat flushing step to before the RCU read section of cachestat, and skip stat flushing during the recency check. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627201737.3506959-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: b00684722262 ("mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent()") Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzbot+b7f13b2d0cc156edf61a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/000000000000f71227061bdf97e0@google.com/ Debugged-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-05-07mm: cleanup WORKINGSET_NODES in workingsetShakeel Butt1-3/+4
WORKINGSET_NODES is not exposed in the memcg stats and thus there is no need to use the memcg specific stat update functions for it. In future if we decide to expose WORKINGSET_NODES in the memcg stats, we can revert this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240501172617.678560-7-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-21mm: move mapping_set_update out of <linux/swap.h>Christoph Hellwig1-0/+1
mapping_set_update is only used inside mm/. Move mapping_set_update to mm/internal.h and turn it into an inline function instead of a macro. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
2024-01-05mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinkerShakeel Butt1-1/+1
One of our workloads (Postgres 14 + sysbench OLTP) regressed on newer upstream kernel and on further investigation, it seems like the cause is the always synchronous rstat flush in the count_shadow_nodes() added by the commit f82e6bf9bb9b ("mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical stats"). On further inspection it seems like we don't really need accurate stats in this function as it was already approximating the amount of appropriate shadow entries to keep for maintaining the refault information. Since there is already 2 sec periodic rstat flush, we don't need exact stats here. Let's ratelimit the rstat flush in this code path. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228073055.4046430-1-shakeelb@google.com Fixes: f82e6bf9bb9b ("mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical stats") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-20mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushingYosry Ahmed1-3/+7
Stats flushing for memcg currently follows the following rules: - Always flush the entire memcg hierarchy (i.e. flush the root). - Only one flusher is allowed at a time. If someone else tries to flush concurrently, they skip and return immediately. - A periodic flusher flushes all the stats every 2 seconds. The reason this approach is followed is because all flushes are serialized by a global rstat spinlock. On the memcg side, flushing is invoked from userspace reads as well as in-kernel flushers (e.g. reclaim, refault, etc). This approach aims to avoid serializing all flushers on the global lock, which can cause a significant performance hit under high concurrency. This approach has the following problems: - Occasionally a userspace read of the stats of a non-root cgroup will be too expensive as it has to flush the entire hierarchy [1]. - Sometimes the stats accuracy are compromised if there is an ongoing flush, and we skip and return before the subtree of interest is actually flushed, yielding stale stats (by up to 2s due to periodic flushing). This is more visible when reading stats from userspace, but can also affect in-kernel flushers. The latter problem is particulary a concern when userspace reads stats after an event occurs, but gets stats from before the event. Examples: - When memory usage / pressure spikes, a userspace OOM handler may look at the stats of different memcgs to select a victim based on various heuristics (e.g. how much private memory will be freed by killing this). Reading stale stats from before the usage spike in this case may cause a wrongful OOM kill. - A proactive reclaimer may read the stats after writing to memory.reclaim to measure the success of the reclaim operation. Stale stats from before reclaim may give a false negative. - Reading the stats of a parent and a child memcg may be inconsistent (child larger than parent), if the flush doesn't happen when the parent is read, but happens when the child is read. As for in-kernel flushers, they will occasionally get stale stats. No regressions are currently known from this, but if there are regressions, they would be very difficult to debug and link to the source of the problem. This patch aims to fix these problems by restoring subtree flushing, and removing the unified/coalesced flushing logic that skips flushing if there is an ongoing flush. This change would introduce a significant regression with global stats flushing thresholds. With per-memcg stats flushing thresholds, this seems to perform really well. The thresholds protect the underlying lock from unnecessary contention. This patch was tested in two ways to ensure the latency of flushing is up to par, on a machine with 384 cpus: - A synthetic test with 5000 concurrent workers in 500 cgroups doing allocations and reclaim, as well as 1000 readers for memory.stat (variation of [2]). No regressions were noticed in the total runtime. Note that significant regressions in this test are observed with global stats thresholds, but not with per-memcg thresholds. - A synthetic stress test for concurrently reading memcg stats while memory allocation/freeing workers are running in the background, provided by Wei Xu [3]. With 250k threads reading the stats every 100ms in 50k cgroups, 99.9% of reads take <= 50us. Less than 0.01% of reads take more than 1ms, and no reads take more than 100ms. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABWYdi0c6__rh-K7dcM_pkf9BJdTRtAU08M43KO9ME4-dsgfoQ@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tka13M-zVZTyQJYL1iUAYvuQ1fcHbCjcOBZcz6POYTV-4g@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAAPL-u9D2b=iF5Lf_cRnKxUfkiEe0AMDTu6yhrUAzX0b6a6rDg@mail.gmail.com/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/zswap.c] [yosryahmed@google.com: remove stats flushing mutex] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJD7tkZgP3m-VVPn+fF_YuvXeQYK=tZZjJHj=dzD=CcSSpp2qg@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-6-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-20mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent()Yosry Ahmed1-12/+24
The workingset code flushes the stats in workingset_refault() to get accurate stats of the eviction memcg. In preparation for more scoped flushed and passing the eviction memcg to the flush call, move the call to workingset_test_recent() where we have a pointer to the eviction memcg. The flush call is sleepable, and cannot be made in an rcu read section. Hence, minimize the rcu read section by also moving it into workingset_test_recent(). Furthermore, instead of holding the rcu read lock throughout workingset_test_recent(), only hold it briefly to get a ref on the eviction memcg. This allows us to make the flush call after we get the eviction memcg. As for workingset_refault(), nothing else there appears to be protected by rcu. The memcg of the faulted folio (which is not necessarily the same as the eviction memcg) is protected by the folio lock, which is held from all callsites. Add a VM_BUG_ON() to make sure this doesn't change from under us. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-5-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-20sync mm-stable with mm-hotfixes-stable to pick up depended-upon changesAndrew Morton1-3/+3
2023-12-12mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cacheYu Zhao1-3/+3
Unmapped folios accessed through file descriptors can be underprotected. Those folios are added to the oldest generation based on: 1. The fact that they are less costly to reclaim (no need to walk the rmap and flush the TLB) and have less impact on performance (don't cause major PFs and can be non-blocking if needed again). 2. The observation that they are likely to be single-use. E.g., for client use cases like Android, its apps parse configuration files and store the data in heap (anon); for server use cases like MySQL, it reads from InnoDB files and holds the cached data for tables in buffer pools (anon). However, the oldest generation can be very short lived, and if so, it doesn't provide the PID controller with enough time to respond to a surge of refaults. (Note that the PID controller uses weighted refaults and those from evicted generations only take a half of the whole weight.) In other words, for a short lived generation, the moving average smooths out the spike quickly. To fix the problem: 1. For folios that are already on LRU, if they can be beyond the tracking range of tiers, i.e., five accesses through file descriptors, move them to the second oldest generation to give them more time to age. (Note that tiers are used by the PID controller to statistically determine whether folios accessed multiple times through file descriptors are worth protecting.) 2. When adding unmapped folios to LRU, adjust the placement of them so that they are not too close to the tail. The effect of this is similar to the above. On Android, launching 55 apps sequentially: Before After Change workingset_refault_anon 25641024 25598972 0% workingset_refault_file 115016834 106178438 -8% Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208061407.2125867-1-yuzhao@google.com Fixes: ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-12list_lru: allow explicit memcg and NUMA node selectionNhat Pham1-2/+2
Patch series "workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback", v8. There are currently several issues with zswap writeback: 1. There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in the zswap pool. 2. We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages). This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure. The new shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis. As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds. This patch (of 6): The interface of list_lru is based on the assumption that the list node and the data it represents belong to the same allocated on the correct node/memcg. While this assumption is valid for existing slab objects LRU such as dentries and inodes, it is undocumented, and rather inflexible for certain potential list_lru users (such as the upcoming zswap shrinker and the THP shrinker). It has caused us a lot of issues during our development. This patch changes list_lru interface so that the caller must explicitly specify numa node and memcg when adding and removing objects. The old list_lru_add() and list_lru_del() are renamed to list_lru_add_obj() and list_lru_del_obj(), respectively. It also extends the list_lru API with a new function, list_lru_putback, which undoes a previous list_lru_isolate call. Unlike list_lru_add, it does not increment the LRU node count (as list_lru_isolate does not decrement the node count). list_lru_putback also allows for explicit memcg and NUMA node selection. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-2-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04mm: workingset: dynamically allocate the mm-shadow shrinkerQi Zheng1-13/+16
Use new APIs to dynamically allocate the mm-shadow shrinker. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911094444.68966-20-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> Cc: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com> Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Cc: Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org> Cc: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru> Cc: Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Yue Hu <huyue2@coolpad.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-24mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical statsYosry Ahmed1-0/+1
Currently, memcg uses rstat to maintain aggregated hierarchical stats. Counters are maintained for hierarchical stats at each memcg. Rstat tracks which cgroups have updates on which cpus to keep those counters fresh on the read-side. Non-hierarchical stats are currently not covered by rstat. Their per-cpu counters are summed up on every read, which is expensive. The original implementation did the same. At some point before rstat, non-hierarchical aggregated counters were introduced by commit a983b5ebee57 ("mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting"). However, those counters were updated on the performance critical write-side, which caused regressions, so they were later removed by commit 815744d75152 ("mm: memcontrol: don't batch updates of local VM stats and events"). See [1] for more detailed history. Kernel versions in between a983b5ebee57 & 815744d75152 (a year and a half) enjoyed cheap reads of non-hierarchical stats, specifically on cgroup v1. When moving to more recent kernels, a performance regression for reading non-hierarchical stats is observed. Now that we have rstat, we know exactly which percpu counters have updates for each stat. We can maintain non-hierarchical counters again, making reads much more efficient, without affecting the performance critical write-side. Hence, add non-hierarchical (i.e local) counters for the stats, and extend rstat flushing to keep those up-to-date. A caveat is that we now need a stats flush before reading local/non-hierarchical stats through {memcg/lruvec}_page_state_local() or memcg_events_local(), where we previously only needed a flush to read hierarchical stats. Most contexts reading non-hierarchical stats are already doing a flush, add a flush to the only missing context in count_shadow_nodes(). With this patch, reading memory.stat from 1000 memcgs is 3x faster on a machine with 256 cpus on cgroup v1: # for i in $(seq 1000); do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cg$i; done # time cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cg*/memory.stat > /dev/null real 0m0.125s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.120s After: real 0m0.032s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.027s To make sure there are no regressions on cgroup v2, I ran an artificial reclaim/refault stress test [2] that creates (NR_CPUS * 2) cgroups, assigns them limits, runs a worker process in each cgroup that allocates tmpfs memory equal to quadruple the limit (to invoke reclaim continuously), and then reads back the entire file (to invoke refaults). All workers are run in parallel, and zram is used as a swapping backend. Both reclaim and refault have conditional stats flushing. I ran this on a machine with 112 cpus, once on mm-unstable, and once on mm-unstable with this patch reverted. (1) A few runs without this patch: # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m9.949s user 0m0.496s sys 14m44.974s # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m10.049s user 0m0.486s sys 14m55.791s # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m9.984s user 0m0.481s sys 14m53.841s (2) A few runs with this patch: # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m9.885s user 0m0.486s sys 14m48.753s # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m9.903s user 0m0.495s sys 14m48.339s # time ./stress_reclaim_refault.sh real 0m9.861s user 0m0.507s sys 14m49.317s No regressions are observed with this patch. There is actually a very slight improvement. If I have to guess, maybe it's because we avoid the percpu loop in count_shadow_nodes() when calling lruvec_page_state_local(), but I could not prove this using perf, it's probably in the noise. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230725201811.GA1231514@cmpxchg.org/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkb17x=qwoO37uxyYXLEUVp15BQKR+Xfh7Sg9Hx-wTQ_=w@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230803185046.1385770-1-yosryahmed@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230726153223.821757-2-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09Multi-gen LRU: fix workingset accountingKalesh Singh1-3/+7
On Android app cycle workloads, MGLRU showed a significant reduction in workingset refaults although pgpgin/pswpin remained relatively unchanged. This indicated MGLRU may be undercounting workingset refaults. This has impact on userspace programs, like Android's LMKD, that monitor workingset refault statistics to detect thrashing. It was found that refaults were only accounted if the MGLRU shadow entry was for a recently evicted folio. However, recently evicted folios should be accounted as workingset activation, and refaults should be accounted regardless of recency. Fix MGLRU's workingset refault and activation accounting to more closely match that of the conventional active/inactive LRU. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230523205922.3852731-1-kaleshsingh@google.com Fixes: ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation") Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09mm: multi-gen LRU: cleanup lru_gen_test_recent()T.J. Alumbaugh1-30/+16
Avoid passing memcg* and pglist_data* to lru_gen_test_recent() since we only use the lruvec anyway. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230522112058.2965866-4-talumbau@google.com Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09workingset: refactor LRU refault to expose refault recency checkNhat Pham1-48/+102
Patch series "cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files", v13. There is currently no good way to query the page cache statistics of large files and directory trees. There is mincore(), but it scales poorly: the kernel writes out a lot of bitmap data that userspace has to aggregate, when the user really does not care about per-page information in that case. The user also needs to mmap and unmap each file as it goes along, which can be quite slow as well. Some use cases where this information could come in handy: * Allowing database to decide whether to perform an index scan or direct table queries based on the in-memory cache state of the index. * Visibility into the writeback algorithm, for performance issues diagnostic. * Workload-aware writeback pacing: estimating IO fulfilled by page cache (and IO to be done) within a range of a file, allowing for more frequent syncing when and where there is IO capacity, and batching when there is not. * Computing memory usage of large files/directory trees, analogous to the du tool for disk usage. More information about these use cases could be found in this thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315170934.GA97793@cmpxchg.org/ This series of patches introduces a new system call, cachestat, that summarizes the page cache statistics (number of cached pages, dirty pages, pages marked for writeback, evicted pages etc.) of a file, in a specified range of bytes. It also include a selftest suite that tests some typical usage. Currently, the syscall is only wired in for x86 architecture. This interface is inspired by past discussion and concerns with fincore, which has a similar design (and as a result, issues) as mincore. Relevant links: https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04207.html https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1302.1/04209.html I have also developed a small tool that computes the memory usage of files and directories, analogous to the du utility. User can choose between mincore or cachestat (with cachestat exporting more information than mincore). To compare the performance of these two options, I benchmarked the tool on the root directory of a Meta's server machine, each for five runs: Using cachestat real -- Median: 33.377s, Average: 33.475s, Standard Deviation: 0.3602 user -- Median: 4.08s, Average: 4.1078s, Standard Deviation: 0.0742 sys -- Median: 28.823s, Average: 28.8866s, Standard Deviation: 0.2689 Using mincore: real -- Median: 102.352s, Average: 102.3442s, Standard Deviation: 0.2059 user -- Median: 10.149s, Average: 10.1482s, Standard Deviation: 0.0162 sys -- Median: 91.186s, Average: 91.2084s, Standard Deviation: 0.2046 I also ran both syscalls on a 2TB sparse file: Using cachestat: real 0m0.009s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.009s Using mincore: real 0m37.510s user 0m2.934s sys 0m34.558s Very large files like this are the pathological case for mincore. In fact, to compute the stats for a single 2TB file, mincore takes as long as cachestat takes to compute the stats for the entire tree! This could easily happen inadvertently when we run it on subdirectories. Mincore is clearly not suitable for a general-purpose command line tool. Regarding security concerns, cachestat() should not pose any additional issues. The caller already has read permission to the file itself (since they need an fd to that file to call cachestat). This means that the caller can access the underlying data in its entirety, which is a much greater source of information (and as a result, a much greater security risk) than the cache status itself. The latest API change (in v13 of the patch series) is suggested by Jens Axboe. It allows for 64-bit length argument, even on 32-bit architecture (which is previously not possible due to the limit on the number of syscall arguments). Furthermore, it eliminates the need for compatibility handling - every user can use the same ABI. This patch (of 4): In preparation for computing recently evicted pages in cachestat, refactor workingset_refault and lru_gen_refault to expose a helper function that would test if an evicted page is recently evicted. [penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp: add missing rcu_read_unlock() in lru_gen_refault()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/610781bc-cf11-fc89-a46f-87cb8235d439@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230503013608.2431726-2-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18mm: workingset: update description of the source fileYang Yang1-6/+17
The calculation of workingset size is the core logic of handling refault, it had been updated several times[1][2] after workingset.c was created[3]. But the description hadn't been updated accordingly, this mismatch may confuse the readers. So we update the description to make it consistent to the code. [1] commit 34e58cac6d8f ("mm: workingset: let cache workingset challenge anon") [2] commit aae466b0052e ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU") [3] commit a528910e12ec ("mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202304131634494948454@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18workingset: memcg: sleep when flushing stats in workingset_refault()Yosry Ahmed1-2/+3
In workingset_refault(), we call mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited() to read accurate stats within an RCU read section and with sleeping disallowed. Move the call above the RCU read section to make it non-atomic. Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically where possible. Since workingset_refault() is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited(), just make it non-atomic, and rename it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-7-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18memcg: sleep during flushing stats in safe contextsYosry Ahmed1-1/+1
Currently, all contexts that flush memcg stats do so with sleeping not allowed. Some of these contexts are perfectly safe to sleep in, such as reading cgroup files from userspace or the background periodic flusher. Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus and the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically where possible. Refactor the code to make mem_cgroup_flush_stats() non-atomic (aka sleepable), and provide a separate atomic version. The atomic version is used in reclaim, refault, writeback, and in mem_cgroup_usage(). All other code paths are left to use the non-atomic version. This includes callbacks for userspace reads and the periodic flusher. Since refault is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(), change it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited(). Reclaim and refault code paths are modified to do non-atomic flushing in separate later patches -- so it will eventually be changed back to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-6-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18memcg: rename mem_cgroup_flush_stats_"delayed" to "ratelimited"Yosry Ahmed1-1/+1
mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed() suggests his is using a delayed_work, but this is actually sometimes flushing directly from the callsite. What it's doing is ratelimited calls. A better name would be mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-3-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02swap_state: update shadow_nodes for anonymous pageYang Yang1-8/+13
Shadow_nodes is for shadow nodes reclaiming of workingset handling, it is updated when page cache add or delete since long time ago workingset only supported page cache. But when workingset supports anonymous page detection, we missied updating shadow nodes for it. This caused that shadow nodes of anonymous page will never be reclaimd by scan_shadow_nodes() even they use much memory and system memory is tense. So update shadow_nodes of anonymous page when swap cache is add or delete by calling xas_set_update(..workingset_update_node). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202301182013032211005@zte.com.cn Fixes: aae466b0052e ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU") Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18workingset: fix confusion around eviction vs refault containerJohannes Weiner1-1/+2
Refault decisions are made based on the lruvec where the page was evicted, as that determined its LRU order while it was alive. Stats and workingset aging must then occur on the lruvec of the new page, as that's the node and cgroup that experience the refault and that's the lruvec whose nonresident info ages out by a new resident page. Those lruvecs could be different when a page is shared between cgroups, or the refaulting page is allocated on a different node. There are currently two mix-ups: 1. When swap is available, the resident anon set must be considered when comparing the refault distance. The comparison is made against the right anon set, but the check for swap is not. When pages get evicted from a cgroup with swap, and refault in one without, this can incorrectly consider a hot refault as cold - and vice versa. Fix that by using the eviction cgroup for the swap check. 2. The stats and workingset age are updated against the wrong lruvec altogether: the right cgroup but the wrong NUMA node. When a page refaults on a different NUMA node, this will have confusing stats and distort the workingset age on a different lruvec - again possibly resulting in hot/cold misclassifications down the line. Fix the swap check and the refault pgdat to address both concerns. This was found during code review. It hasn't caused notable issues in production, suggesting that those refault-migrations are relatively rare in practice. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104222944.2380117-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-01-18mm: multi-gen LRU: rename lru_gen_struct to lru_gen_folioYu Zhao1-2/+2
Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU", v3. Overview ======== An memcg LRU is a per-node LRU of memcgs. It is also an LRU of LRUs, since each node and memcg combination has an LRU of folios (see mem_cgroup_lruvec()). Its goal is to improve the scalability of global reclaim, which is critical to system-wide memory overcommit in data centers. Note that memcg reclaim is currently out of scope. Its memory bloat is a pointer to each lruvec and negligible to each pglist_data. In terms of traversing memcgs during global reclaim, it improves the best-case complexity from O(n) to O(1) and does not affect the worst-case complexity O(n). Therefore, on average, it has a sublinear complexity in contrast to the current linear complexity. The basic structure of an memcg LRU can be understood by an analogy to the active/inactive LRU (of folios): 1. It has the young and the old (generations), i.e., the counterparts to the active and the inactive; 2. The increment of max_seq triggers promotion, i.e., the counterpart to activation; 3. Other events trigger similar operations, e.g., offlining an memcg triggers demotion, i.e., the counterpart to deactivation. In terms of global reclaim, it has two distinct features: 1. Sharding, which allows each thread to start at a random memcg (in the old generation) and improves parallelism; 2. Eventual fairness, which allows direct reclaim to bail out at will and reduces latency without affecting fairness over some time. The commit message in patch 6 details the workflow: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-7-yuzhao@google.com/ The following is a simple test to quickly verify its effectiveness. Test design: 1. Create multiple memcgs. 2. Each memcg contains a job (fio). 3. All jobs access the same amount of memory randomly. 4. The system does not experience global memory pressure. 5. Periodically write to the root memory.reclaim. Desired outcome: 1. All memcgs have similar pgsteal counts, i.e., stddev(pgsteal) over mean(pgsteal) is close to 0%. 2. The total pgsteal is close to the total requested through memory.reclaim, i.e., sum(pgsteal) over sum(requested) is close to 100%. Actual outcome [1]: MGLRU off MGLRU on stddev(pgsteal) / mean(pgsteal) 75% 20% sum(pgsteal) / sum(requested) 425% 95% #################################################################### MEMCGS=128 for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg done start() { echo $BASHPID > /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/cgroup.procs fio -name=memcg$memcg --numjobs=1 --ioengine=mmap \ --filename=/dev/zero --size=1920M --rw=randrw \ --rate=64m,64m --random_distribution=random \ --fadvise_hint=0 --time_based --runtime=10h \ --group_reporting --minimal } for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do start & done sleep 600 for ((i = 0; i < 600; i++)); do echo 256m >/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim sleep 6 done for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do grep "pgsteal " /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/memory.stat done #################################################################### [1]: This was obtained from running the above script (touches less than 256GB memory) on an EPYC 7B13 with 512GB DRAM for over an hour. This patch (of 8): The new name lru_gen_folio will be mor