mm/mglru: try to stop at high watermarks
The initial MGLRU patchset didn't include the memcg LRU support, and it relied on should_abort_scan(), added by commit f76c8337 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: optimize multiple memcgs"), to "backoff to avoid overshooting their aggregate reclaim target by too much". Later on when the memcg LRU was added, should_abort_scan() was deemed unnecessary, and the test results [1] showed no side effects after it was removed by commit a579086c ("mm: multi-gen LRU: remove eviction fairness safeguard"). However, that test used memory.reclaim, which sets nr_to_reclaim to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. So it can overshoot only by SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX-1 pages, i.e., from nr_reclaimed=nr_to_reclaim-1 to nr_reclaimed=nr_to_reclaim+SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX-1. Compared with the batch size kswapd sets to nr_to_reclaim, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX is tiny. Therefore that test isn't able to reproduce the worst case scenario, i.e., kswapd overshooting GBs on large systems and "consuming 100% CPU" (see the Closes tag). Bring back a simplified version of should_abort_scan() on top of the memcg LRU, so that kswapd stops when all eligible zones are above their respective high watermarks plus a small delta to lower the chance of KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY. Note that this only applies to order-0 reclaim, meaning compaction-induced reclaim can still run wild (which is a different problem). On Android, launching 55 apps sequentially: Before After Change pgpgin 838377172 802955040 -4% pgpgout 38037080 34336300 -10% [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20221222041905.2431096-1-yuzhao@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208061407.2125867-2-yuzhao@google.com Fixes: a579086c ("mm: multi-gen LRU: remove eviction fairness safeguard") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> Reported-by: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAK8fFZ4DY+GtBA40Pm7Nn5xCHy+51w3sfxPqkqpqakSXYyX+Wg@mail.gmail.com/Tested-by: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com> Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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