From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89660C04AB6 for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 00:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650EA2054F for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 00:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726441AbfE2A5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2019 20:57:44 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:43340 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726062AbfE2A5o (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 May 2019 20:57:44 -0400 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 May 2019 17:57:42 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 Received: from yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com (HELO yhuang-dev) ([10.239.159.29]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 May 2019 17:57:41 -0700 From: "Huang\, Ying" To: Yang Shi Cc: , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [v7 PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: correct some vmscan counters for THP swapout References: <1559025859-72759-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> <1559025859-72759-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 08:57:40 +0800 In-Reply-To: <1559025859-72759-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> (Yang Shi's message of "Tue, 28 May 2019 14:44:19 +0800") Message-ID: <87sgsy6prv.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yang Shi writes: > Since commit bd4c82c22c36 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after > swapped out"), THP can be swapped out in a whole. But, nr_reclaimed > and some other vm counters still get inc'ed by one even though a whole > THP (512 pages) gets swapped out. > > This doesn't make too much sense to memory reclaim. For example, direct > reclaim may just need reclaim SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages, reclaiming one THP > could fulfill it. But, if nr_reclaimed is not increased correctly, > direct reclaim may just waste time to reclaim more pages, > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 512 pages in worst case. > > And, it may cause pgsteal_{kswapd|direct} is greater than > pgscan_{kswapd|direct}, like the below: > > pgsteal_kswapd 122933 > pgsteal_direct 26600225 > pgscan_kswapd 174153 > pgscan_direct 14678312 > > nr_reclaimed and nr_scanned must be fixed in parallel otherwise it would > break some page reclaim logic, e.g. > > vmpressure: this looks at the scanned/reclaimed ratio so it won't > change semantics as long as scanned & reclaimed are fixed in parallel. > > compaction/reclaim: compaction wants a certain number of physical pages > freed up before going back to compacting. > > kswapd priority raising: kswapd raises priority if we scan fewer pages > than the reclaim target (which itself is obviously expressed in order-0 > pages). As a result, kswapd can falsely raise its aggressiveness even > when it's making great progress. > > Other than nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed, some other counters, e.g. > pgactivate, nr_skipped, nr_ref_keep and nr_unmap_fail need to be fixed > too since they are user visible via cgroup, /proc/vmstat or trace > points, otherwise they would be underreported. > > When isolating pages from LRUs, nr_taken has been accounted in base > page, but nr_scanned and nr_skipped are still accounted in THP. It > doesn't make too much sense too since this may cause trace point > underreport the numbers as well. > > So accounting those counters in base page instead of accounting THP as > one page. > > nr_dirty, nr_unqueued_dirty, nr_congested and nr_writeback are used by > file cache, so they are not impacted by THP swap. > > This change may result in lower steal/scan ratio in some cases since > THP may get split during page reclaim, then a part of tail pages get > reclaimed instead of the whole 512 pages, but nr_scanned is accounted > by 512, particularly for direct reclaim. But, this should be not a > significant issue. > > Cc: "Huang, Ying" > Cc: Johannes Weiner > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Mel Gorman > Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" > Cc: Hugh Dickins > Cc: Shakeel Butt > Cc: Hillf Danton > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Looks good to me! Thanks for your effort! Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Best Regards, Huang, Ying