linux/mm
Suleiman Souhlal 6f04f48dc9 mm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough.
Prior to this change, we would decide whether to force scan a LRU during
reclaim if that LRU itself was too small for the current priority.
However, this can lead to the file LRU getting force scanned even if
there are a lot of anonymous pages we can reclaim, leading to hot file
pages getting needlessly reclaimed.

To address this, we instead only force scan when none of the reclaimable
LRUs are big enough.

Gives huge improvements with zswap.  For example, when doing -j20 kernel
build in a 500MB container with zswap enabled, runtime (in seconds) is
greatly reduced:

x without this change
+ with this change
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       700.997       790.076       763.928        754.05      39.59493
+   5       141.634       197.899       155.706         161.9     21.270224
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -592.15 +/- 46.3521
        -78.5293% +/- 6.14709%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 31.7819)

Should also give some improvements in regular (non-zswap) swap cases.

Yes, hughd found significant speedup using regular swap, with several
memcgs under pressure; and it should also be effective in the non-memcg
case, whenever one or another zone LRU is forced too small.

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: print more details for bad_page() 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map' 2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary 2014-05-06 13:04:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c 2014-05-05 15:44:47 +02:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
fremap.c mm: softdirty: make freshly remapped file pages being softdirty unconditionally 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to avoid conflicts 2014-05-07 13:15:46 +02:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string() 2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: ensure hugepage access is denied if hugepages are not supported 2014-05-06 13:04:58 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject 2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
interval_tree.c
iov_iter.c take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c 2014-04-01 23:19:30 -04:00
Kconfig hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: postpone the disabling of kmemleak early logging 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
ksm.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: madvise: fix MADV_WILLNEED on shmem swapouts 2014-05-23 09:37:29 -07:00
Makefile block: move mm/bounce.c to block/ 2014-05-19 20:01:52 -06:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: add physical memory list 2014-05-20 08:58:39 +02:00
memcontrol.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: move register_memory_resource out of the lock_memory_hotplug 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison 2014-05-23 09:37:30 -07:00
memory.c x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels 2014-06-04 16:53:55 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: add unlikely and likely hints 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
migrate.c mm: fix swapops.h:131 bug if remap_file_pages raced migration 2014-03-20 22:09:09 -07:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c mm: per-thread vma caching 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range 2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page() 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm/nobootmem.c: mark function as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
nommu.c mm: fix 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' and coding style 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: mark functions as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
page_io.c Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom 2014-05-06 13:04:58 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs 2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c percpu: make pcpu_alloc_chunk() use pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree() 2014-04-14 16:18:06 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range 2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
process_vm_access.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
rmap.c mm: softdirty: don't forget to save file map softdiry bit on unmap 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
shmem.c mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read() 2014-04-13 14:10:26 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
slab.c sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
slab.h sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
slob.c mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru 2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
slub.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
swap.c mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
truncate.c mm: filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries 2014-05-06 13:04:59 -07:00
util.c nick kvfree() from apparmor 2014-05-06 14:02:53 -04:00
vmacache.c mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check 2014-04-28 14:24:09 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: enhance vm_map_ram() comment 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
vmpressure.c arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c mm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough. 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
vmstat.c CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments 2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration 2014-03-20 13:43:45 +01:00
zswap.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-04-07 16:38:06 -07:00