Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] mm: madvise: Avoid split during MADV_PAGEOUT and MADV_COLD

Ryan Roberts
2024-03-13T11:08:30Z

On 13/03/2024 10:37, Barry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:36 PM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 13/03/2024 09:16, Barry Song wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:03 PM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 13/03/2024 07:19, Barry Song wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 4:01 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rework madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() to avoid splitting any large
>>>>>> folio that is fully and contiguously mapped in the pageout/cold vm
>>>>>> range. This change means that large folios will be maintained all the
>>>>>> way to swap storage. This both improves performance during swap-out, by
>>>>>> eliding the cost of splitting the folio, and sets us up nicely for
>>>>>> maintaining the large folio when it is swapped back in (to be covered in
>>>>>> a separate series).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Folios that are not fully mapped in the target range are still split,
>>>>>> but note that behavior is changed so that if the split fails for any
>>>>>> reason (folio locked, shared, etc) we now leave it as is and move to the
>>>>>> next pte in the range and continue work on the proceeding folios.
>>>>>> Previously any failure of this sort would cause the entire operation to
>>>>>> give up and no folios mapped at higher addresses were paged out or made
>>>>>> cold. Given large folios are becoming more common, this old behavior
>>>>>> would have likely lead to wasted opportunities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While we are at it, change the code that clears young from the ptes to
>>>>>> use ptep_test_and_clear_young(), which is more efficent than
>>>>>> get_and_clear/modify/set, especially for contpte mappings on arm64,
>>>>>> where the old approach would require unfolding/refolding and the new
>>>>>> approach can be done in place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> This looks so much better than our initial RFC.
>>>>> Thank you for your excellent work!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks - its a team effort - I had your PoC and David's previous batching work
>>>> to use as a template.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> mm/madvise.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
>>>>>> index 547dcd1f7a39..56c7ba7bd558 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/madvise.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
>>>>>> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
>>>>>> LIST_HEAD(folio_list);
>>>>>> bool pageout_anon_only_filter;
>>>>>> unsigned int batch_count = 0;
>>>>>> + int nr;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
>>>>>> return -EINTR;
>>>>>> @@ -423,7 +424,8 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
>>>>>> return 0;
>>>>>> flush_tlb_batched_pending(mm);
>>>>>> arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>>>>> - for (; addr < end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
>>>>>> + for (; addr < end; pte += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE) {
>>>>>> + nr = 1;
>>>>>> ptent = ptep_get(pte);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (++batch_count == SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
>>>>>> @@ -447,55 +449,66 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
>>>>>> continue;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> - * Creating a THP page is expensive so split it only if we
>>>>>> - * are sure it's worth. Split it if we are only owner.
>>>>>> + * If we encounter a large folio, only split it if it is not
>>>>>> + * fully mapped within the range we are operating on. Otherwise
>>>>>> + * leave it as is so that it can be swapped out whole. If we
>>>>>> + * fail to split a folio, leave it in place and advance to the
>>>>>> + * next pte in the range.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
>>>>>> - int err;
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> - if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) > 1)
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> - if (pageout_anon_only_filter && !folio_test_anon(folio))
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> - if (!folio_trylock(folio))
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> - folio_get(folio);
>>>>>> - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>>>>> - pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
>>>>>> - start_pte = NULL;
>>>>>> - err = split_folio(folio);
>>>>>> - folio_unlock(folio);
>>>>>> - folio_put(folio);
>>>>>> - if (err)
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> - start_pte = pte =
>>>>>> - pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
>>>>>> - if (!start_pte)
>>>>>> - break;
>>>>>> - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>>>>> - pte--;
>>>>>> - addr -= PAGE_SIZE;
>>>>>> - continue;
>>>>>> + const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY |
>>>>>> + FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
>>>>>> + int max_nr = (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, pte, ptent, max_nr,
>>>>>> + fpb_flags, NULL);
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if we have a quick way to avoid folio_pte_batch() if users
>>>>> are doing madvise() on a portion of a large folio.
>>>>
>>>> Good idea. Something like this?:
>>>>
>>>> if (pte_pfn(pte) == folio_pfn(folio)
>>>
>>> what about
>>>
>>> "If (pte_pfn(pte) == folio_pfn(folio) && max_nr >= nr_pages)"
>>>
>>> just to account for cases where the user's end address falls within
>>> the middle of a large folio?
>>
>> yes, even better. I'll add this for the next version.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW, another minor issue is here:
>>>
>>> if (++batch_count == SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
>>> batch_count = 0;
>>> if (need_resched()) {
>>> arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>> pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
>>> cond_resched();
>>> goto restart;
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> We are increasing 1 for nr ptes, thus, we are holding PTL longer
>>> than small folios case? we used to increase 1 for each PTE.
>>> Does it matter?
>>
>> I thought about that, but the vast majority of the work is per-folio, not
>> per-pte. So I concluded it would be best to continue to increment per-folio.
>
> Okay. The original patch commit b2f557a21bc8 ("mm/madvise: add
> cond_resched() in madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range()")
> primarily addressed the real-time wake-up latency issue. MADV_PAGEOUT
> and MADV_COLD are much less critical compared
> to other scenarios where operations like do_anon_page or do_swap_page
> necessarily need PTL to progress. Therefore, adopting
> an approach that relatively aggressively releases the PTL seems to
> neither harm MADV_PAGEOUT/COLD nor disadvantage
> others.
>
> We are slightly increasing the duration of holding the PTL due to the
> iteration of folio_pte_batch() potentially taking longer than
> the case of small folios, which do not require it.

If we can't scan all the PTEs in a page table without dropping the PTL
intermittently we have bigger problems. This all works perfectly fine in all the
other PTE iterators; see zap_pte_range() for example.

> However, compared
> to operations like folio_isolate_lru() and folio_deactivate(),
> this increase seems negligible. Recently, we have actually removed
> ptep_test_and_clear_young() for MADV_PAGEOUT,
> which should also benefit real-time scenarios. Nonetheless, there is a
> small risk with large folios, such as 1 MiB mTHP, where
> we may need to loop 256 times in folio_pte_batch().

As I understand it, RT and THP are mutually exclusive. RT can't handle the extra
latencies THPs can cause in allocation path, etc. So I don't think you will see
a problem here.

>
> I would vote for increasing 'nr' or maybe max(log2(nr), 1) rather than
> 1 for two reasons:
>
> 1. We are not making MADV_PAGEOUT/COLD worse; in fact, we are
> improving them by reducing the time taken to put the same
> number of pages into the reclaim list.
>
> 2. MADV_PAGEOUT/COLD scenarios are not urgent compared to others that
> genuinely require the PTL to progress. Moreover,
> the majority of time spent on PAGEOUT is actually reclaim_pages().

I understand your logic. But I'd rather optimize for fewer lock acquisitions for
the !RT+THP case, since RT+THP is not supported.

>
>>>
>>>> nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, pte, ptent, max_nr,
>>>> fpb_flags, NULL);
>>>>
>>>> If we are not mapping the first page of the folio, then it can't be a full
>>>> mapping, so no need to call folio_pte_batch(). Just split it.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + if (nr < folio_nr_pages(folio)) {
>>>>>> + int err;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) > 1)
>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>> + if (pageout_anon_only_filter && !folio_test_anon(folio))
>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>> + if (!folio_trylock(folio))
>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>> + folio_get(folio);
>>>>>> + arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>>>>> + pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
>>>>>> + start_pte = NULL;
>>>>>> + err = split_folio(folio);
>>>>>> + folio_unlock(folio);
>>>>>> + folio_put(folio);
>>>>>> + if (err)
>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>> + start_pte = pte =
>>>>>> + pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
>>>>>> + if (!start_pte)
>>>>>> + break;
>>>>>> + arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
>>>>>> + nr = 0;
>>>>>> + continue;
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> * Do not interfere with other mappings of this folio and
>>>>>> - * non-LRU folio.
>>>>>> + * non-LRU folio. If we have a large folio at this point, we
>>>>>> + * know it is fully mapped so if its mapcount is the same as its
>>>>>> + * number of pages, it must be exclusive.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> - if (!folio_test_lru(folio) || folio_mapcount(folio) != 1)
>>>>>> + if (!folio_test_lru(folio) ||
>>>>>> + folio_mapcount(folio) != folio_nr_pages(folio))
>>>>>> continue;
>>>>>
>>>>> This looks so perfect and is exactly what I wanted to achieve.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (pageout_anon_only_filter && !folio_test_anon(folio))
>>>>>> continue;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_large(folio), folio);
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> - if (!pageout && pte_young(ptent)) {
>>>>>> - ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte,
>>>>>> - tlb->fullmm);
>>>>>> - ptent = pte_mkold(ptent);
>>>>>> - set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
>>>>>> - tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
>>>>>> + if (!pageout) {
>>>>>> + for (; nr != 0; nr--, pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
>>>>>> + if (ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte))
>>>>>> + tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>
>>>>> This looks so smart. if it is not pageout, we have increased pte
>>>>> and addr here; so nr is 0 and we don't need to increase again in
>>>>> for (; addr < end; pte += nr, addr += nr * PAGE_SIZE)
>>>>>
>>>>> otherwise, nr won't be 0. so we will increase addr and
>>>>> pte by nr.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. I'm hoping that Lance is able to follow a similar pattern for
>>>> madvise_free_pte_range().
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 2.25.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Overall, LGTM,
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>
> Thanks
> Barry