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Liam R. Howlett authored
vma_lookup() walks the VMA tree for a specific value, find_vma() will search the tree after walking to a specific value. It is more efficient to only walk to the requested value since privcmd_ioctl_mmap() will exit the loop if vm_start != msg->va. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-20-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by:
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Only write to the maple tree if we are not inserting or the insert isn't going to overwrite the area to clear. This avoids spanning writes and node coealescing when unnecessary. The change requires a custom search for the linked list addition to find the correct VMA for the prev link. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-19-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Remove the RB tree and start using the maple tree for vm_area_struct tracking. Drop validate_mm() calls in expand_upwards() and expand_downwards() as the lock is not held. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-18-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
These users of the rbtree should probably have been walks of the linked list, but convert them to use walks of the maple tree. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-17-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
This rather specialised walk can use the VMA iterator. If this proves to be too slow, we can write a custom routine to find the two largest gaps, but it will be somewhat complicated, so let's see if we need it first. Update the kunit test case to use the maple tree. This also fixes an issue with the kunit testcase not adding the last VMA to the list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-16-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Fixes: 17ccae8b (mm/damon: add kunit tests) Signed-off-by:
SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
The maple tree was already tracking VMAs in this function by an earlier commit, but the rbtree iterator was being used to iterate the list. Change the iterator to use a maple tree native iterator and switch to the maple tree advanced API to avoid multiple walks of the tree during insert operations. Unexport the now-unused vma_store() function. For performance reasons we bulk allocate the maple tree nodes. The node calculations are done internally to the tree and use the VMA count and assume the worst-case node requirements. The VM_DONT_COPY flag does not allow for the most efficient copy method of the tree and so a bulk loading algorithm is used. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-15-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
The maple tree code was added to find the unmapped area in a previous commit and was checked against what the rbtree returned, but the actual result was never used. Start using the maple tree implementation and remove the rbtree code. Add kernel documentation comment for these functions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-14-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Use the maple tree's advanced API and a maple state to walk the tree for the entry at the address of the next vma, then use the maple state to walk back one entry to find the previous entry. Add kernel documentation comments for this API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-13-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Using the maple tree interface mt_find() will handle the RCU locking and will start searching at the address up to the limit, ULONG_MAX in this case. Add kernel documentation to this API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-12-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
This simplifies the implementation and is faster than using the linked list. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-11-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) authored
This thin layer of abstraction over the maple tree state is for iterating over VMAs. You can go forwards, go backwards or ask where the iterator is. Rename the existing vma_next() to __vma_next() -- it will be removed by the end of this series. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-10-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Start tracking the VMAs with the new maple tree structure in parallel with the rb_tree. Add debug and trace events for maple tree operations and duplicate the rb_tree that is created on forks into the maple tree. The maple tree is added to the mm_struct including the mm_init struct, added support in required mm/mmap functions, added tracking in kernel/fork for process forking, and used to find the unmapped_area and checked against what the rbtree finds. This also moves the mmap_lock() in exit_mmap() since the oom reaper call does walk the VMAs. Otherwise lockdep will be unhappy if oom happens. When splitting a vma fails due to allocations of the maple tree nodes, the error path in __split_vma() calls new->vm_ops->close(new). The page accounting for hugetlb is actually in the close() operation, so it accounts for the removal of 1/2 of the VMA which was not adjusted. This results in a negative exit value. To avoid the negative charge, set vm_start = vm_end and vm_pgoff = 0. There is also a potential accounting issue in special mappings from insert_vm_struct() failing to allocate, so reverse the charge there in the failure scenario. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-9-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
This is a test suite that uses the radix test infrastructure. It has been split into its own commit to allow for easier review of the maple tree code. The testing includes: - Allocation of nodes - gfp flag allocation checks - Expansion & contraction of tree - preallocation checks - tree navigation by next/prev - tree navigation by iterators (mas_for_each, etc) - Number of nodes for a given number of entries - Generic tree construction tests - Addition and removal of entries in forward and reverse numerical indexes - gap searching both forward and reverse - Combining gaps by overwriting entries in different ways - splitting right-most node - splitting left-most node - overwriting multiple slots - overwriting across different levels of the tree - overwriting the middle of a tree - causing a 3-way split up to the root by overwriting the last slot and first slot of different nodes and spanning different levels - RCU stress testing of the tree with threads - Duplication of the tree by entry count - Tests which were generated by fuzzers have been added. - A large number of tests which come from recording crashing in a VM and reconstructing the tree (see check_erase2_set()) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-8-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
maple tree uses lockdep_is_held, so define it as external in the header. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-7-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Add support for kmem_cache_free_bulk() and kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() to the radix tree test suite. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-6-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Add functions to get the number of allocations, and total allocations from a kmem_cache. Also add a function to get the allocated size and a way to zero the total allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-5-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
kmem_cache_set_non_kernel() is a mechanism to allow a certain number of kmem_cache_alloc requests to succeed even when GFP_KERNEL is not set in the flags. This functionality allows for testing different paths though the code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-4-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
define pr_err to printk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-3-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
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Liam R. Howlett authored
Patch series "Introducing the Maple Tree" The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially one with a simple interface. If you use an rbtree with other data structures to improve performance or an interval tree to track non-overlapping ranges, then this is for you. The tree has a branching factor of 10 for non-leaf nodes and 16 for leaf nodes. With the increased branching factor, it is significantly shorter than the rbtree so it has fewer cache misses. The removal of the linked list between subsequent entries also reduces the cache misses and the need to pull in the previous and next VMA during many tree alterations. The first user that is covered in this patch set is the vm_area_struct, where three data structures are replaced by the maple tree: the augmented rbtree, the vma cache, and the linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The long term goal is to reduce or remove the mmap_lock contention. The plan is to get to the point where we use the maple tree in RCU mode. Readers will not block for writers. A single write operation will be allowed at a time. A reader re-walks if stale data is encountered. VMAs would be RCU enabled and this mode would be entered once multiple tasks are using the mm_struct. Davidlor said : Yes I like the maple tree, and at this stage I don't think we can ask for : more from this series wrt the MM - albeit there seems to still be some : folks reporting breakage. Fundamentally I see Liam's work to (re)move : complexity out of the MM (not to say that the actual maple tree is not : complex) by consolidating the three complimentary data structures very : much worth it considering performance does not take a hit. This was very : much a turn off with the range locking approach, which worst case scenario : incurred in prohibitive overhead. Also as Liam and Matthew have : mentioned, RCU opens up a lot of nice performance opportunities, and in : addition academia[1] has shown outstanding scalability of address spaces : with the foundation of replacing the locked rbtree with RCU aware trees. A similar work has been discovered in the academic press https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/rcuvm:asplos12.pdf Sheer coincidence. We designed our tree with the intention of solving the hardest problem first. Upon settling on a b-tree variant and a rough outline, we researched ranged based b-trees and RCU b-trees and did find that article. So it was nice to find reassurances that we were on the right path, but our design choice of using ranges made that paper unusable for us. This patch (of 70): The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially one with a simple interface. If you use an rbtree with other data structures to improve performance or an interval tree to track non-overlapping ranges, then this is for you. The tree has a branching factor of 10 for non-leaf nodes and 16 for leaf nodes. With the increased branching factor, it is significantly shorter than the rbtree so it has fewer cache misses. The removal of the linked list between subsequent entries also reduces the cache misses and the need to pull in the previous and next VMA during many tree alterations. The first user that is covered in this patch set is the vm_area_struct, where three data structures are replaced by the maple tree: the augmented rbtree, the vma cache, and the linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The long term goal is to reduce or remove the mmap_lock contention. The plan is to get to the point where we use the maple tree in RCU mode. Readers will not block for writers. A single write operation will be allowed at a time. A reader re-walks if stale data is encountered. VMAs would be RCU enabled and this mode would be entered once multiple tasks are using the mm_struct. There is additional BUG_ON() calls added within the tree, most of which are in debug code. These will be replaced with a WARN_ON() call in the future. There is also additional BUG_ON() calls within the code which will also be reduced in number at a later date. These exist to catch things such as out-of-range accesses which would crash anyways. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-2-Liam.Howlett@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Add /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/ where all memory tier related details can be found. All allocated memory tiers will be listed there as /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/ The nodes which are part of a specific memory tier can be listed via /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/nodes A directory hierarchy looks like :/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ tree memory_tier4/ memory_tier4/ ├── nodes ├── subsystem -> ../../../../bus/memory_tiering └── uevent :/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ cat memory_tier4/nodes 0,2 [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: drop toptier_nodes from sysfs] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922102201.62168-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081736.119281-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
The most common case for certain node_random usage (demotion nodemask) is with nodemask weight 1. We can avoid calling get_random_init() in that case and always return the only node set in the nodemask. A simple test as below before = rdtsc_ordered(); for (i= 0; i < 100; i++) { rand = node_random(&nmask); } after = rdtsc_ordered(); Without fix after - before : 16438 With fix after - before : 816 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-11-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by:
Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
With memory tier support we can have memory only NUMA nodes in the top tier from which we want to avoid promotion tracking NUMA faults. Update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers. All NUMA nodes are by default top tier nodes. With lower(slower) memory tiers added we consider all memory tiers above a memory tier having CPU NUMA nodes as a top memory tier [sj@kernel.org: include missed header file, memory-tiers.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820190720.248704-1-sj@kernel.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm/memory.c needs linux/memory-tiers.h] [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: make toptier_distance inclusive upper bound of toptiers] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081457.118960-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-10-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Jagdish Gediya authored
Currently, a higher tier node can only be demoted to selected nodes on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path. This strict demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space). This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that currently. This patch adds support to get all the allowed demotion targets for a memory tier. demote_page_list() function is now modified to utilize this allowed node mask as the fallback allocation mask. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-9-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Now that we track node-specific memtier in pg_data_t, we can drop memtier from memtype. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-8-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Also update different helpes to use NODE_DATA()->memtier. Since node specific memtier can change based on the reassignment of NUMA node to a different memory tiers, accessing NODE_DATA()->memtier needs to happen under an rcu read lock or memory_tier_lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This patch switch the demotion target building logic to use memory tiers instead of NUMA distance. All N_MEMORY NUMA nodes will be placed in the default memory tier and additional memory tiers will be added by drivers like dax kmem. This patch builds the demotion target for a NUMA node by looking at all memory tiers below the tier to which the NUMA node belongs. The closest node in the immediately following memory tier is used as a demotion target. Since we are now only building demotion target for N_MEMORY NUMA nodes the CPU hotplug calls are removed in this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
By default, all nodes are assigned to the default memory tier which is the memory tier designated for nodes with DRAM Set dax kmem device node's tier to slower memory tier by assigning abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE. Low-level drivers like papr_scm or ACPI NFIT can initialize memory device type to a more accurate value based on device tree details or HMAT. If the kernel doesn't find the memory type initialized, a default slower memory type is assigned by the kmem driver. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: assign correct memory type for multiple dax devices with the same node affinity] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826100224.542312-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-5-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
If the new NUMA node onlined doesn't have a abstract distance assigned, the kernel adds the NUMA node to default memory tier. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: fix kernel error with memory hotplug] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825092019.379069-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
This moves memory demotion related code to mm/memory-tiers.c. No functional change in this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Patch series "mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion", v15. The current kernel has the basic memory tiering support: Inactive pages on a higher tier NUMA node can be migrated (demoted) to a lower tier NUMA node to make room for new allocations on the higher tier NUMA node. Frequently accessed pages on a lower tier NUMA node can be migrated (promoted) to a higher tier NUMA node to improve the performance. In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed. The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier, and builds the tier hierarchy tier-by-tier by establishing the per-node demotion targets based on the distances between nodes. This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for several important use cases: * The current tier initialization code always initializes each memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed memory-only node on a virtual machine) and that should be put into a higher tier. * The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier. But on a system with HBM (e.g. GPU memory) devices, these memory-only HBM NUMA nodes should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are better to be placed into the next lower tier. * Also because the current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier, when a CPU is hot-added (or hot-removed) and triggers a memory node from CPU-less into a CPU node (or vice versa), the memory tier hierarchy gets changed, even though no memory node is added or removed. This can make the tier hierarchy unstable and make it difficult to support tier-based memory accounting. * A higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with shortest distance on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path, not any other node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space), and has resulted in the feature request for an interface to override the system-wide, per-node demotion order from the userspace. This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that. This patch series make the creation of memory tiers explicit under the control of device driver. Memory Tier Initialization ========================== Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific performance range into a memory tier. By default, all memory nodes are assigned to the default tier with abstract distance 512. A device driver can move its memory nodes from the default tier. For example, PMEM can move its memory nodes below the default tier, whereas GPU can move its memory nodes above the default tier. The kernel initialization code makes the decision on which exact tier a memory node should be assigned to based on the requests from the device drivers as well as the memory device hardware information provided by the firmware. Hot-adding/removing CPUs doesn't affect memory tier hierarchy. This patch (of 10): In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed. The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier, and builds the tier hierarchy by establishing the per-node demotion targets based on the distances between nodes. This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for several important use cases, The current tier initialization code always initializes each memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed memory-only node on a virtual machine) that should be put into a higher tier. The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier. But on a system with HBM or GPU devices, the memory-only NUMA nodes mapping these devices should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are better to be placed into the next lower tier. With current kernel higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with shortest distance on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path, not any other node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space), This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that. This patch series address the above by defining memory tiers explicitly. Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific performance range into a memory tier. This patch configures the range/chunk size to be 128. The default DRAM abstract distance is 512. We can have 4 memory tiers below the default DRAM with abstract distance range 0 - 127, 127 - 255, 256- 383, 384 - 511. Faster memory devices can be placed in these faster(higher) memory tiers. Slower memory devices like persistent memory will have abstract distance higher than the default DRAM level. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Aneesh] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
Add a design doc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-15-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Acked-by:
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Acked-by:
Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Acked-by:
Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net> Acked-by:
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Tested-by:
Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu> Tested-by:
Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com> Tested-by:
Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Tested-by:
Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru> Tested-by:
Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu> Tested-by:
Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works> Tested-by:
Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
Add an admin guide. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-14-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
Add /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen for working set estimation and proactive reclaim. These techniques are commonly used to optimize job scheduling (bin packing) in data centers [1][2]. Compared with the page table-based approach and the PFN-based approach, this lruvec-based approach has the following advantages: 1. It offers better choices because it is aware of memcgs, NUMA nodes, shared mappings and unmapped page cache. 2. It is more scalable because it is O(nr_hot_pages), whereas the PFN-based approach is O(nr_total_pages). Add /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen_full for debugging. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297858.3304053 [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507731 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-13-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as requested by many desktop users [1]. When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds from getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered if this working set cannot be kept in memory. Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms), N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing. Larger values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM kills. Compared with the size-based approach [2], this time-based approach has the following advantages: 1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications and memory sizes. 2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ydza%2FzXKY9ATRoh6@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20101028191523.GA14972@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-12-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled as a kill switch. Components that can be disabled include: 0x0001: the multi-gen LRU core 0x0002: walking page table, when arch_has_hw_pte_young() returns true 0x0004: clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries, when CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y [yYnN]: apply to all the components above E.g., echo y >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled 0x0007 echo 5 >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled 0x0005 NB: the page table walks happen on the scale of seconds under heavy memory pressure, in which case the mmap_lock contention is a lesser concern, compared with the LRU lock contention and the I/O congestion. So far the only well-known case of the mmap_lock contention happens on Android, due to Scudo [1] which allocates several thousand VMAs for merely a few hundred MBs. The SPF and the Maple Tree also have provided their own assessments [2][3]. However, if walking page tables does worsen the mmap_lock contention, the kill switch can be used to disable it. In this case the multi-gen LRU will suffer a minor performance degradation, as shown previously. Clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries can also be disabled, since this behavior was not tested on x86 varieties other than Intel and AMD. [1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/scudo [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128131006.67712-1-michel@lespinasse.org/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426150616.3937571-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-11-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by: -
Yu Zhao authored
When multiple memcgs are available, it is possible to use generations as a frame of reference to make better choices and improve overall performance under global memory pressure. This patch adds a basic optimization to select memcgs that can drop single-use unmapped clean pages first. Doing so reduces the chance of going into the aging path or swapping, which can be costly. A typical example that benefits from this optimization is a server running mixed types of workloads, e.g., heavy anon workload in one memcg and heavy buffered I/O workload in the other. Though this optimization can be applied to both kswapd and direct reclaim, it is only added to kswapd to keep the patchset manageable. Later improvements may cover the direct reclaim path. While ensuring certain fairness to all eligible memcgs, proportional scans of individual memcgs also require proper backoff to avoid overshooting their aggregate reclaim target by too much. Otherwise it can cause high direct reclaim latency. The conditions for backoff are: 1. At low priorities, for direct reclaim, if aging fairness or direct reclaim latency is at risk, i.e., aging one memcg multiple times or swapping after the target is met. 2. At high priorities, for global reclaim, if per-zone free pages are above respective watermarks. Server benchmark results: Mixed workloads: fio (buffered I/O): +[19, 21]% IOPS BW patch1-8: 1880k 7343MiB/s patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s memcached (anon): +[119, 123]% Ops/sec KB/sec patch1-8: 862768.65 33514.68 patch1-9: 1911022.12 74234.54 Mixed workloads: fio (buffered I/O): +[75, 77]% IOPS BW 5.19-rc1: 1279k 4996MiB/s patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s memcached (anon): +[13, 15]% Ops/sec KB/sec 5.19-rc1: 1673524.04 65008.87 patch1-9: 1911022.12 74234.54 Configurations: (changes since patch 6) cat mixed.sh modprobe brd rd_nr=2 rd_size=56623104 swapoff -a mkswap /dev/ram0 swapon /dev/ram0 mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram1 mount -t ext4 /dev/ram1 /mnt memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=50000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000 fio -name=mglru --numjobs=36 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \ --buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \ --iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \ --rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \ --time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=90m --group_reporting & pid=$! sleep 200 memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=50000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed kill -INT $pid wait Client benchmark results: no change (CONFIG_MEMCG=n) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-10-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by: -
Yu Zhao authored
To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages. A kill switch will be added in the next patch to disable this behavior. When disabled, the aging relies on the rmap only. NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the 2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages to swapcache and unmaps them. To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page tables and the rmap, as usual. An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated. Given an lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages before it increments max_seq. When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently. Page table walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated, pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current memcg is under reclaim. Similarly, page table walkers will not promote pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim. This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables: 1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since the last iteration. 2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or misplaced pages. 3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y. 4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This improves the cache performance for workloads that have large numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5. Server benchmark results: Single workload: fio (buffered I/O): no change Single workload: memcached (anon): +[8, 10]% Ops/sec KB/sec patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29 patch1-8: 1245274.91 48435.66 Configurations: no change Client benchmark results: kswapd profiles: patch1-7 48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 2.92% ptep_clear_flush 2.53% __zram_bvec_write 2.11% do_raw_spin_lock 2.02% memmove 1.93% lru_gen_look_around 1.56% free_unref_page_list 1.40% memset patch1-8 49.44% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 6.19% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 5.97% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 3.13% get_pfn_folio 2.85% ptep_clear_flush 2.42% __zram_bvec_write 2.08% do_raw_spin_lock 1.92% memmove 1.44% alloc_zspage 1.36% memset Configurations: no change Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3]. kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/ [2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-9-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by: -
Yu Zhao authored
Searching the rmap for PTEs mapping each page on an LRU list (to test and clear the accessed bit) can be expensive because pages from different VMAs (PA space) are not cache friendly to the rmap (VA space). For workloads mostly using mapped pages, searching the rmap can incur the highest CPU cost in the reclaim path. This patch exploits spatial locality to reduce the trips into the rmap. When shrink_page_list() walks the rmap and finds a young PTE, a new function lru_gen_look_around() scans at most BITS_PER_LONG-1 adjacent PTEs. On finding another young PTE, it clears the accessed bit and updates the gen counter of the page mapped by this PTE to (max_seq%MAX_NR_GENS)+1. Server benchmark results: Single workload: fio (buffered I/O): no change Single workload: memcached (anon): +[3, 5]% Ops/sec KB/sec patch1-6: 1106168.46 43025.04 patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29 Configurations: no change Client benchmark results: kswapd profiles: patch1-6 39.03% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 18.47% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 6.74% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 3.97% do_raw_spin_lock 2.49% ptep_clear_flush 2.48% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first 1.92% folio_referenced_one 1.88% __zram_bvec_write 1.48% memmove 1.31% vma_interval_tree_iter_next patch1-7 48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 2.92% ptep_clear_flush 2.53% __zram_bvec_write 2.11% do_raw_spin_lock 2.02% memmove 1.93% lru_gen_look_around 1.56% free_unref_page_list 1.40% memset Configurations: no change Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-8-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by:
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Yu Zhao authored
To avoid confusion, the terms "promotion" and "demotion" will be applied to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "activation" and "deactivation" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual. The aging produces young generations. Given an lruvec, it increments max_seq when max_seq-min_seq+1 approaches MIN_NR_GENS. The aging promotes hot pages to the youngest generation when it finds them accessed through page tables; the demotion of cold pages happens consequently when it increments max_seq. Promotion in the aging path does not involve any LRU list operations, only the updates of the gen counter and lrugen->nr_pages[]; demotion, unless as the result of the increment of max_seq, requires LRU list operations, e.g., lru_deactivate_fn(). The aging has the complexity O(nr_hot_pages), since it is only interested in hot pages. The eviction consumes old generations. Given an lruvec, it increments min_seq when lrugen->lists[] indexed by min_seq%MAX_NR_GENS becomes empty. A feedback loop modeled after the PID controller monitors refaults over anon and file types and decides which type to evict when both types are available from the same generation. The protection of pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors takes place in the eviction path. Each generation is divided into multiple tiers. A page accessed N times through file descriptors is in tier order_base_2(N). Tiers do not have dedicated lrugen->lists[], only bits in folio->flags. The aforementioned feedback loop also monitors refaults over all tiers and decides when to protect pages in which tiers (N>1), using the first tier (N=0,1) as a baseline. The first tier contains single-use unmapped clean pages, which are most likely the best choices. In contrast to promotion in the aging path, the protection of a page in the eviction path is achieved by moving this page to the next generation, i.e., min_seq+1, if the feedback loop decides so. This approach has the following advantages: 1. It removes the cost of activation in the buffered access path by inferring whether pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors are statistically hot and thus worth protecting in the eviction path. 2. It takes pages accessed through page tables into account and avoids overprotecting pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors. (Pages accessed through page tables are in the first tier, since N=0.) 3. More tiers provide better protection for pages accessed more than twice through file descriptors, when under heavy buffered I/O workloads. Server benchmark results: Single workload: fio (buffered I/O): +[30, 32]% IOPS BW 5.19-rc1: 2673k 10.2GiB/s patch1-6: 3491k 13.3GiB/s Single workload: memcached (anon): -[4, 6]% Ops/sec KB/sec 5.19-rc1: 1161501.04 45177.25 patch1-6: 1106168.46 43025.04 Configurations: CPU: two Xeon 6154 Mem: total 256G Node 1 was only used as a ram disk to reduce the variance in the results. patch drivers/block/brd.c <<EOF 99,100c99,100 < gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM; < page = alloc_page(gfp_flags); --- > gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_THISNODE; > page = alloc_pages_node(1, gfp_flags, 0); EOF cat >>/etc/systemd/system.conf <<EOF CPUAffinity=numa NUMAPolicy=bind NUMAMask=0 EOF cat >>/etc/memcached.conf <<EOF -m 184320 -s /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock -a 0766 -t 36 -B binary EOF cat fio.sh modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=113246208 swapoff -a mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0 mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /mnt mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test echo 38654705664 >/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/memory.max echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/test/cgroup.procs fio -name=mglru --numjobs=72 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \ --buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \ --iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \ --rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \ --time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=5m --group_reporting cat memcached.sh modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=113246208 swapoff -a mkswap /dev/ram0 swapon /dev/ram0 memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000 memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \ -P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \ --key-maximum=65000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \ --ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed Client benchmark results: kswapd profiles: 5.19-rc1 40.33% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 21.80% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 7.53% do_raw_spin_lock 3.95% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 2.52% vma_interval_tree_iter_next 2.37% folio_referenced_one 2.28% vma_interval_tree_subtree_search 1.97% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first 1.60% ptep_clear_flush 1.06% __zram_bvec_write patch1-6 39.03% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work) 18.47% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead) 6.74% _raw_spin_unlock_irq 3.97% do_raw_spin_lock 2.49% ptep_clear_flush 2.48% anon_vma_interval_tree_iter_first 1.92% folio_referenced_one 1.88% __zram_bvec_write 1.48% memmove 1.31% vma_interval_tree_iter_next Configurations: CPU: single Snapdragon 7c Mem: total 4G ChromeOS MemoryPressure [1] [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/tast-tests/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-7-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by: -
Yu Zhao authored
Evictable pages are divided into multiple generations for each lruvec. The youngest generation number is stored in lrugen->max_seq for both anon and file types as they are aged on an equal footing. The oldest generation numbers are stored in lrugen->min_seq[] separately for anon and file types as clean file pages can be evicted regardless of swap constraints. These three variables are monotonically increasing. Generation numbers are truncated into order_base_2(MAX_NR_GENS+1) bits in order to fit into the gen counter in folio->flags. Each truncated generation number is an index to lrugen->lists[]. The sliding window technique is used to track at least MIN_NR_GENS and at most MAX_NR_GENS generations. The gen counter stores a value within [1, MAX_NR_GENS] while a page is on one of lrugen->lists[]. Otherwise it stores 0. There are two conceptually independent procedures: "the aging", which produces young generations, and "the eviction", which consumes old generations. They form a closed-loop system, i.e., "the page reclaim". Both procedures can be invoked from userspace for the purposes of working set estimation and proactive reclaim. These techniques are commonly used to optimize job scheduling (bin packing) in data centers [1][2]. To avoid confusion, the terms "hot" and "cold" will be applied to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "active" and "inactive" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual. The protection of hot pages and the selection of cold pages are based on page access channels and patterns. There are two access channels: one through page tables and the other through file descriptors. The protection of the former channel is by design stronger because: 1. The uncertainty in determining the access patterns of the former channel is higher due to the approximation of the accessed bit. 2. The cost of evicting the former channel is higher due to the TLB flushes required and the likelihood of encountering the dirty bit. 3. The penalty of underprotecting the former channel is higher because applications usually do not prepare themselves for major page faults like they do for blocked I/O. E.g., GUI applications commonly use dedicated I/O threads to avoid blocking rendering threads. There are also two access patterns: one with temporal locality and the other without. For the reasons listed above, the former channel is assumed to follow the former pattern unless VM_SEQ_READ or VM_RAND_READ is present; the latter channel is assumed to follow the latter pattern unless outlying refaults have been observed [3][4]. The next patch will address the "outlying refaults". Three macros, i.e., LRU_REFS_WIDTH, LRU_REFS_PGOFF and LRU_REFS_MASK, used later are added in this patch to make the entire patchset less diffy. A page is added to the youngest generation on faulting. The aging needs to check the accessed bit at least twice before handing this page over to the eviction. The first check takes care of the accessed bit set on the initial fault; the second check makes sure this page has not been used since then. This protocol, AKA second chance, requires a minimum of two generations, hence MIN_NR_GENS. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297858.3304053 [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507731 [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/495543/ [4] https://lwn.net/Articles/815342/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-6-yuzhao@google.comSigned-off-by:
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