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* [patch 00/20] VM pageout scalability improvements (V5)
@ 2008-03-04 22:51 Rik van Riel
  2008-03-04 22:51 ` [patch 01/20] move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c Rik van Riel
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  0 siblings, 20 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2008-03-04 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-mm, KOSAKI Motohiro, Lee Schermerhorn

On large memory systems, the VM can spend way too much time scanning
through pages that it cannot (or should not) evict from memory. Not
only does it use up CPU time, but it also provokes lock contention
and can leave large systems under memory presure in a catatonic state.

Against 2.6.25-rc3-mm1

This patch series improves VM scalability by:

1) making the locking a little more scalable

2) putting filesystem backed, swap backed and non-reclaimable pages
   onto their own LRUs, so the system only scans the pages that it
   can/should evict from memory

3) switching to SEQ replacement for the anonymous LRUs, so the
   number of pages that need to be scanned when the system
   starts swapping is bound to a reasonable number

More info on the overall design can be found at:

	http://linux-mm.org/PageReplacementDesign

An all-in-one patch can be found at:

	http://people.redhat.com/riel/splitvm/

Changelog:
- make page_alloc.c compile without CONFIG_NORECLAIM_MLOCK (minchan Kim)
- BUG() does not take an argument (minchan Kim) 
- clean up is_active_lru and is_file_lru (Andy Whitcroft)
- clean up shrink_active_list temp list names (KOSAKI Motohiro)
- add total active & inactive memory totals for vmstat -a (KOSAKI Motohiro)
- only try global anon page aging on global lru scans (KOSAKI Motohiro)
- make function descriptions follow the kernel-doc format (Rik van Riel)
- simplify mlock_vma_pages_range and munlock_vma_pages_range (Lee Schermerhorn)
- remove some more arguments, rename to mlock_vma_pages_all (Lee Schermerhorn)
- many code cleanups (Lee Schermerhorn)
- pass correct vma arg to mlock_vma_pages_range from do_brk (Rik van Riel)
- port to 2.6.25-rc3-mm1

- pull the memcontrol lru arrayification earlier into the patch series
- use a pagevec array similar to the lru array
- clean up the code in various places
- improved pageout balancing and reduced pageout cpu use

- fix compilation on PPC and without memcontrol
- make page_is_pagecache more readable
- replace get_scan_ratio with correct version

- merge memcontroller split LRU code into the main split LRU patch,
  since it is not functionally different (it was split up only to help
  people who had seen the last version of the patch series review it)
- drop the page_file_cache debugging patch, since it never triggered
- reintroduce code to not scan anon list if swap is full
- add code to scan anon list if page cache is very small already
- use lumpy reclaim more aggressively for smaller order > 1 allocations

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* [patch 00/20] VM pageout scalability improvements
@ 2007-12-18 21:15 Rik van Riel
  2007-12-18 21:15 ` [patch 04/20] free swap space on swap-in/activation Rik van Riel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2007-12-18 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm; +Cc: linux-kernel, lee.shermerhorn

On large memory systems, the VM can spend way too much time scanning
through pages that it cannot (or should not) evict from memory. Not
only does it use up CPU time, but it also provokes lock contention
and can leave large systems under memory presure in a catatonic state.

This patch series improves VM scalability by:

1) making the locking a little more scalable

2) putting filesystem backed, swap backed and non-reclaimable pages
   onto their own LRUs, so the system only scans the pages that it
   can/should evict from memory

3) switching to SEQ replacement for the anonymous LRUs, so the
   number of pages that need to be scanned when the system
   starts swapping is bound to a reasonable number

The noreclaim patches come verbatim from Lee Schermerhorn and
Nick Piggin.  I have not taken a detailed look at them yet and
all I have done is fix the rejects against the latest -mm kernel.

I am posting this series now because I would like to get more
feedback, while I am studying and improving the noreclaim patches
myself.

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2008-03-04 22:51 [patch 00/20] VM pageout scalability improvements (V5) Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:51 ` [patch 01/20] move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:51 ` [patch 02/20] Use an indexed array for LRU variables Rik van Riel
2008-03-05  0:31   ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 03/20] use an array for the LRU pagevecs Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 04/20] free swap space on swap-in/activation Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 05/20] define page_file_cache() function Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 06/20] split LRU lists into anon & file sets Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 07/20] SEQ replacement for anonymous pages Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 08/20] add some sanity checks to get_scan_ratio Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 09/20] add newly swapped in pages to the inactive list Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 10/20] more aggressively use lumpy reclaim Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 11/20] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure Rik van Riel
2008-03-05  0:34   ` minchan Kim
2008-03-05  4:21     ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 12/20] Non-reclaimable page statistics Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 13/20] scan noreclaim list for reclaimable pages Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 14/20] ramfs pages are non-reclaimable Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 15/20] SHM_LOCKED pages are nonreclaimable Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 16/20] non-reclaimable mlocked pages Rik van Riel
2008-03-05  0:28   ` minchan Kim
2008-03-05  4:18     ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 17/20] mlock vma pages under mmap_sem held for read Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 18/20] handle mlocked pages during map/unmap and truncate Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 19/20] account mlocked pages Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 22:52 ` [patch 20/20] cull non-reclaimable anon pages from the LRU at fault time Rik van Riel
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