UPSTREAM: mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:06:04 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerlingsen1 <lingsen1@lenovo.com>
Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:37:05 +0000 (17:37 +0800)
commit15c7f4521e1ce91e3d46a78895a7b6811e81f497
tree3ab0c24f00d211badd3366558fa0ae68183846b0
parent63898ef83611853a39a6d2938c5bb9e4beca2772
UPSTREAM: mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing

Refaults happen during transitions between workingsets as well as in-place
thrashing.  Knowing the difference between the two has a range of
applications, including measuring the impact of memory shortage on the
system performance, as well as the ability to smarter balance pressure
between the filesystem cache and the swap-backed workingset.

During workingset transitions, inactive cache refaults and pushes out
established active cache.  When that active cache isn't stale, however,
and also ends up refaulting, that's bonafide thrashing.

Introduce a new page flag that tells on eviction whether the page has been
active or not in its lifetime.  This bit is then stored in the shadow
entry, to classify refaults as transitioning or thrashing.

How many page->flags does this leave us with on 32-bit?

20 bits are always page flags

21 if you have an MMU

23 with the zone bits for DMA, Normal, HighMem, Movable

29 with the sparsemem section bits

30 if PAE is enabled

31 with this patch.

So on 32-bit PAE, that leaves 1 bit for distinguishing two NUMA nodes.  If
that's not enough, the system can switch to discontigmem and re-gain the 6
or 7 sparsemem section bits.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8508cf3ffad4defa202b303e5b6379efc4cd9054)

Bug: 127712811
Test: lmkd in PSI mode
Change-Id: I71df060dce5590a3c654f9a0e8e54deeb74b64c2
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
include/linux/mmzone.h
include/linux/page-flags.h
include/linux/swap.h
include/trace/events/mmflags.h
mm/filemap.c
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/swap_state.c
mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmstat.c
mm/workingset.c