vmscan: evict use-once pages first

When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those
pages first, before considering evicting other pages.

This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems
because only three things can happen to an inactive file page:

1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list
2) evicted by the pageout code
3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted

The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or
allocated for something else.  If the pages are used for streaming IO,
this pageout pattern continues.  Otherwise, we will fall back to the
normal pageout pattern.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 25b9ca93d2327e942da46f8d9545a7a514c6ed13..45add35dda1b5da25a1ad7d9ff88c94687cb3cad 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 extern void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
                                                        int priority);
 int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                       struct zone *zone,
                                       enum lru_list lru);
@@ -239,6 +240,12 @@ mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
        return 1;
 }
 
+static inline int
+mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+       return 1;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long
 mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone,
                         enum lru_list lru)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 78eb8552818b6b94d4add7ec06ecdc881add1f67..70db6e0a5eece0a3a6d40f2089d91271968c3361 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -570,6 +570,17 @@ int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
        return 0;
 }
 
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+       unsigned long active;
+       unsigned long inactive;
+
+       inactive = mem_cgroup_get_local_zonestat(memcg, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
+       active = mem_cgroup_get_local_zonestat(memcg, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
+
+       return (active > inactive);
+}
+
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                       struct zone *zone,
                                       enum lru_list lru)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e5245d051647e6271604c613f9ebc8685e2884e7..9673437a54572790fcc77da4ab2b9aa8b67a5582 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1351,12 +1351,48 @@ static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
        return low;
 }
 
+static int inactive_file_is_low_global(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       unsigned long active, inactive;
+
+       active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
+       inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
+
+       return (active > inactive);
+}
+
+/**
+ * inactive_file_is_low - check if file pages need to be deactivated
+ * @zone: zone to check
+ * @sc:   scan control of this context
+ *
+ * When the system is doing streaming IO, memory pressure here
+ * ensures that active file pages get deactivated, until more
+ * than half of the file pages are on the inactive list.
+ *
+ * Once we get to that situation, protect the system's working
+ * set from being evicted by disabling active file page aging.
+ *
+ * This uses a different ratio than the anonymous pages, because
+ * the page cache uses a use-once replacement algorithm.
+ */
+static int inactive_file_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+       int low;
+
+       if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
+               low = inactive_file_is_low_global(zone);
+       else
+               low = mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup);
+       return low;
+}
+
 static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
        struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, int priority)
 {
        int file = is_file_lru(lru);
 
-       if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) {
+       if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE && inactive_file_is_low(zone, sc)) {
                shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
                return 0;
        }