user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/swap.h, branch v3.10.44

mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim

2013-04-29T22:54:38Z

In page reclaim, huge page is split. split_huge_page() adds tail pages to LRU list. Since we are reclaiming a huge page, it's better we reclaim all subpages of the huge page instead of just the head page. This patch adds split tail pages to shrink page list so the tail pages can be reclaimed soon. Before this patch, run a swap workload: thp_fault_alloc 3492 thp_fault_fallback 608 thp_collapse_alloc 6 thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 thp_split 916 With this patch: thp_fault_alloc 4085 thp_fault_fallback 16 thp_collapse_alloc 90 thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0 thp_split 1272 fallback allocation is reduced a lot. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting

2013-04-29T22:54:38Z

To prevent flooding the swap device with writebacks, frontswap backends need to count and limit the number of outstanding writebacks. The incrementing of the counter can be done before the call to __swap_writepage(). However, the caller must receive a notification when the writeback completes in order to decrement the counter. To achieve this functionality, this patch modifies __swap_writepage() to take the bio completion callback function as an argument. end_swap_bio_write(), the normal bio completion function, is also made non-static so that code doing the accounting can call it after the accounting is done. There should be no behavioural change to existing code. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings Signed-off-by: Bob Liu Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: break up swap_writepage() for frontswap backends

2013-04-29T22:54:38Z

swap_writepage() is currently where frontswap hooks into the swap write path to capture pages with the frontswap_store() function. However, if a frontswap backend wants to "resume" the writeback of a page to the swap device, it can't call swap_writepage() as the page will simply reenter the backend. This patch separates swap_writepage() into a top and bottom half, the bottom half named __swap_writepage() to allow a frontswap backend, like zswap, to resume writeback beyond the frontswap_store() hook. __add_to_swap_cache() is also made non-static so that the page for which writeback is to be resumed can be added to the swap cache. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings Signed-off-by: Bob Liu Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmscan: change type of vm_total_pages to unsigned long

2013-02-24T01:50:22Z

This variable is calculated from nr_free_pagecache_pages so change its type to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix return type for functions nr_free_*_pages

2013-02-24T01:50:21Z

Currently, the amount of RAM that functions nr_free_*_pages return is held in unsigned int. But in machines with big memory (exceeding 16TB), the amount may be incorrect because of overflow, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Julian Anastasov Cc: David Miller Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen Cc: Ron Minnich Cc: Latchesar Ionkov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

2013-02-24T01:50:17Z

swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD). The main contention comes from swap_info_get(). This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new per-partition lock. Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and swap_list are still protected by swap_lock. nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock. In theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually there are free swap pages. But sounds not a big problem. Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only protected by swap_info_struct.lock. Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it. read the flags is ok with either the locks hold. If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold the former first to avoid deadlock. swap_entry_free() can change swap_list. To delete that code, we add a new highest_priority_index. Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we check it. If it's valid, we use it. It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock(). But in practice, swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush). And BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock. We never free swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag. The only risk without the lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me. But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem. "swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s. This patch further improves the speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement. It's a multi-process test, so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches. [arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu] [hughd@google.com: add missing unlock] [minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: make each swap partition have one address_space

2013-02-24T01:50:17Z

When I use several fast SSD to do swap, swapper_space.tree_lock is heavily contended. This makes each swap partition have one address_space to reduce the lock contention. There is an array of address_space for swap. The swap entry type is the index to the array. In my test with 3 SSD, this increases the swapout throughput 20%. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert unneeded change to __add_to_swap_cache] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmscan: save work scanning (almost) empty LRU lists

2013-02-24T01:50:09Z

In certain cases (kswapd reclaim, memcg target reclaim), a fixed minimum amount of pages is scanned from the LRU lists on each iteration, to make progress. Do not make this minimum bigger than the respective LRU list size, however, and save some busy work trying to isolate and reclaim pages that are not there. Empty LRU lists are quite common with memory cgroups in NUMA environments because there exists a set of LRU lists for each zone for each memory cgroup, while the memory of a single cgroup is expected to stay on just one node. The number of expected empty LRU lists is thus memcgs * (nodes - 1) * lru types Each attempt to reclaim from an empty LRU list does expensive size comparisons between lists, acquires the zone's lru lock etc. Avoid that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Satoru Moriya Cc: Simon Jeons Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable

2012-10-09T07:22:55Z

page_evictable(page, vma) is an irritant: almost all its callers pass NULL for vma. Remove the vma arg and use mlocked_vma_newpage(vma, page) explicitly in the couple of places it's needed. But in those places we don't even need page_evictable() itself! They're dealing with a freshly allocated anonymous page, which has no "mapping" and cannot be mlocked yet. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Ying Han Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: swap: implement generic handler for swap_activate

2012-08-01T01:42:47Z

The version of swap_activate introduced is sufficient for swap-over-NFS but would not provide enough information to implement a generic handler. This patch shuffles things slightly to ensure the same information is available for aops->swap_activate() as is available to the core. No functionality change. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Paris Cc: James Morris Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Xiaotian Feng Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds