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author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2009-06-16 15:33:20 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 19:47:45 -0700 |
commit | 90afa5de6f3fa89a733861e843377302479fcf7e (patch) | |
tree | 2870878fa3361c27551b5a18c4732073ae1432bd | |
parent | 84a892456046921a40646114deed65e2df93a1bc (diff) | |
download | linux-rt-90afa5de6f3fa89a733861e843377302479fcf7e.tar.gz |
vmscan: properly account for the number of page cache pages zone_reclaim() can reclaim
A bug was brought to my attention against a distro kernel but it affects
mainline and I believe problems like this have been reported in various
guises on the mailing lists although I don't have specific examples at the
moment.
The reported problem was that malloc() stalled for a long time (minutes in
some cases) if a large tmpfs mount was occupying a large percentage of
memory overall. The pages did not get cleaned or reclaimed by
zone_reclaim() because the zone_reclaim_mode was unsuitable, but the lists
are uselessly scanned frequencly making the CPU spin at near 100%.
This patchset intends to address that bug and bring the behaviour of
zone_reclaim() more in line with expectations which were noticed during
investigation. It is based on top of mmotm and takes advantage of
Kosaki's work with respect to zone_reclaim().
Patch 1 fixes the heuristics that zone_reclaim() uses to determine if the
scan should go ahead. The broken heuristic is what was causing the
malloc() stall as it uselessly scanned the LRU constantly. Currently,
zone_reclaim is assuming zone_reclaim_mode is 1 and historically it
could not deal with tmpfs pages at all. This fixes up the heuristic so
that an unnecessary scan is more likely to be correctly avoided.
Patch 2 notes that zone_reclaim() returning a failure automatically means
the zone is marked full. This is not always true. It could have
failed because the GFP mask or zone_reclaim_mode were unsuitable.
Patch 3 introduces a counter zreclaim_failed that will increment each
time the zone_reclaim scan-avoidance heuristics fail. If that
counter is rapidly increasing, then zone_reclaim_mode should be
set to 0 as a temporarily resolution and a bug reported because
the scan-avoidance heuristic is still broken.
This patch:
On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that
is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA
distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that
clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not
being met.
There is a heuristic that determines if the scan is worthwhile but the
problem is that the heuristic is not being properly applied and is
basically assuming zone_reclaim_mode is 1 if it is enabled. The lack of
proper detection can manfiest as high CPU usage as the LRU list is scanned
uselessly.
Historically, once enabled it was depending on NR_FILE_PAGES which may
include swapcache pages that the reclaim_mode cannot deal with. Patch
vmscan-change-the-number-of-the-unmapped-files-in-zone-reclaim.patch by
Kosaki Motohiro noted that zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) included
pages that were not file-backed such as swapcache and made a calculation
based on the inactive, active and mapped files. This is far superior when
zone_reclaim==1 but if RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then NR_FILE_PAGES is a
reasonable starting figure.
This patch alters how zone_reclaim() works out how many pages it might be
able to reclaim given the current reclaim_mode. If RECLAIM_SWAP is set in
the reclaim_mode it will either consider NR_FILE_PAGES as potential
candidates or else use NR_{IN}ACTIVE}_PAGES-NR_FILE_MAPPED to discount
swapcache and other non-file-backed pages. If RECLAIM_WRITE is not set,
then NR_FILE_DIRTY number of pages are not candidates. If RECLAIM_SWAP is
not set, then NR_FILE_MAPPED are not.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Estimate unmapped pages minus tmpfs pages]
[fengguang.wu@intel.com: Fix underflow problem in Kosaki's estimate]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 52 |
2 files changed, 53 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 0ea5adbc5b16..c4de6359d440 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -315,10 +315,14 @@ min_unmapped_ratio: This is available only on NUMA kernels. -A percentage of the total pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will only -occur if more than this percentage of pages are file backed and unmapped. -This is to insure that a minimal amount of local pages is still available for -file I/O even if the node is overallocated. +This is a percentage of the total pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will +only occur if more than this percentage of pages are in a state that +zone_reclaim_mode allows to be reclaimed. + +If zone_reclaim_mode has the value 4 OR'd, then the percentage is compared +against all file-backed unmapped pages including swapcache pages and tmpfs +files. Otherwise, only unmapped pages backed by normal files but not tmpfs +files and similar are considered. The default is 1 percent. diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 057e44b97aa1..79a98d98ed33 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2356,6 +2356,48 @@ int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1; */ int sysctl_min_slab_ratio = 5; +static inline unsigned long zone_unmapped_file_pages(struct zone *zone) +{ + unsigned long file_mapped = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED); + unsigned long file_lru = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) + + zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); + + /* + * It's possible for there to be more file mapped pages than + * accounted for by the pages on the file LRU lists because + * tmpfs pages accounted for as ANON can also be FILE_MAPPED + */ + return (file_lru > file_mapped) ? (file_lru - file_mapped) : 0; +} + +/* Work out how many page cache pages we can reclaim in this reclaim_mode */ +static long zone_pagecache_reclaimable(struct zone *zone) +{ + long nr_pagecache_reclaimable; + long delta = 0; + + /* + * If RECLAIM_SWAP is set, then all file pages are considered + * potentially reclaimable. Otherwise, we have to worry about + * pages like swapcache and zone_unmapped_file_pages() provides + * a better estimate + */ + if (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP) + nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES); + else + nr_pagecache_reclaimable = zone_unmapped_file_pages(zone); + + /* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */ + if (!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE)) + delta += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY); + + /* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */ + if (unlikely(delta > nr_pagecache_reclaimable)) + delta = nr_pagecache_reclaimable; + + return nr_pagecache_reclaimable - delta; +} + /* * Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim. */ @@ -2390,9 +2432,7 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0; p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state; - if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) - - zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) > - zone->min_unmapped_pages) { + if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) > zone->min_unmapped_pages) { /* * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing * priorities until we have enough memory freed. @@ -2450,10 +2490,8 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by * unmapped file backed pages. */ - if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) - - zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages - && zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) - <= zone->min_slab_pages) + if (zone_pagecache_reclaimable(zone) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages && + zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) <= zone->min_slab_pages) return 0; if (zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone)) |