[PATCH 3/3] Provide control over unmapped pages

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Provide control using zone_reclaim() and a boot parameter. The
code reuses functionality from zone_reclaim() to isolate unmapped
pages and reclaim them as a priority, ahead of other mapped pages.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/swap.h |    5 ++-
 mm/page_alloc.c      |    7 +++--
 mm/vmscan.c          |   72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index eba53e7..78b0830 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -252,11 +252,12 @@ extern int vm_swappiness;
 extern int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
 extern long vm_total_pages;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-extern int zone_reclaim_mode;
 extern int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio;
 extern int sysctl_min_slab_ratio;
 extern int zone_reclaim(struct zone *, gfp_t, unsigned int);
+extern bool should_balance_unmapped_pages(struct zone *zone);
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+extern int zone_reclaim_mode;
 #else
 #define zone_reclaim_mode 0
 static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 62b7280..4228da3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1662,6 +1662,9 @@ zonelist_scan:
 			unsigned long mark;
 			int ret;
 
+			if (should_balance_unmapped_pages(zone))
+				wakeup_kswapd(zone, order);
+
 			mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
 			if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark,
 				    classzone_idx, alloc_flags))
@@ -4136,10 +4139,10 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 
 		zone->spanned_pages = size;
 		zone->present_pages = realsize;
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-		zone->node = nid;
 		zone->min_unmapped_pages = (realsize*sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio)
 						/ 100;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+		zone->node = nid;
 		zone->min_slab_pages = (realsize * sysctl_min_slab_ratio) / 100;
 #endif
 		zone->name = zone_names[j];
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0ac444f..98950f4 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -145,6 +145,21 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
 #define scanning_global_lru(sc)	(1)
 #endif
 
+static unsigned long balance_unmapped_pages(int priority, struct zone *zone,
+						struct scan_control *sc);
+static int unmapped_page_control __read_mostly;
+
+static int __init unmapped_page_control_parm(char *str)
+{
+	unmapped_page_control = 1;
+	/*
+	 * XXX: Should we tweak swappiness here?
+	 */
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("unmapped_page_control", unmapped_page_control_parm);
+
+
 static struct zone_reclaim_stat *get_reclaim_stat(struct zone *zone,
 						  struct scan_control *sc)
 {
@@ -2223,6 +2238,12 @@ loop_again:
 				shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone,
 							&sc, priority, 0);
 
+			/*
+			 * We do unmapped page balancing once here and once
+			 * below, so that we don't lose out
+			 */
+			balance_unmapped_pages(priority, zone, &sc);
+
 			if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order,
 					high_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0)) {
 				end_zone = i;
@@ -2258,6 +2279,11 @@ loop_again:
 				continue;
 
 			sc.nr_scanned = 0;
+			/*
+			 * Balance unmapped pages upfront, this should be
+			 * really cheap
+			 */
+			balance_unmapped_pages(priority, zone, &sc);
 
 			/*
 			 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
@@ -2491,7 +2517,8 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order)
 		pgdat->kswapd_max_order = order;
 	if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
 		return;
-	if (zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0))
+	if (zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, low_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0) &&
+		!should_balance_unmapped_pages(zone))
 		return;
 
 	trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
@@ -2740,6 +2767,49 @@ zone_reclaim_unmapped_pages(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Routine to balance unmapped pages, inspired from the code under
+ * CONFIG_NUMA that does unmapped page and slab page control by keeping
+ * min_unmapped_pages in the zone. We currently reclaim just unmapped
+ * pages, slab control will come in soon, at which point this routine
+ * should be called balance cached pages
+ */
+static unsigned long balance_unmapped_pages(int priority, struct zone *zone,
+						struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+	if (unmapped_page_control &&
+		(zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone) > zone->min_unmapped_pages)) {
+		struct scan_control nsc;
+		unsigned long nr_pages;
+
+		nsc = *sc;
+
+		nsc.swappiness = 0;
+		nsc.may_writepage = 0;
+		nsc.may_unmap = 0;
+		nsc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
+
+		nr_pages = zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone) -
+				zone->min_unmapped_pages;
+		/* Magically try to reclaim eighth the unmapped cache pages */
+		nr_pages >>= 3;
+
+		zone_reclaim_unmapped_pages(zone, &nsc, nr_pages);
+		return nsc.nr_reclaimed;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+#define UNMAPPED_PAGE_RATIO 16
+bool should_balance_unmapped_pages(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	if (unmapped_page_control &&
+		(zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone) >
+			UNMAPPED_PAGE_RATIO * zone->min_unmapped_pages))
+		return true;
+	return false;
+}
+
+/*
  * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
  */
 static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)

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