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mm: use pagevec to rotate reclaimable page
authorHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:24:52 +0000 (01:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:42:54 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
commit902aaed0d983dfd459fcb2b678608d4584782200
tree00b18597d87101ba1b37e5dcfde1d91312870160
parent754af6f5a85fcd1ecb456851d20c65e4c6ce10ab
mm: use pagevec to rotate reclaimable page

While running some memory intensive load, system response deteriorated just
after swap-out started.

The cause of this problem is that when a PG_reclaim page is moved to the tail
of the inactive LRU list in rotate_reclaimable_page(), lru_lock spin lock is
acquired every page writeback .  This deteriorates system performance and
makes interrupt hold off time longer when swap-out started.

Following patch solves this problem.  I use pagevec in rotating reclaimable
pages to mitigate LRU spin lock contention and reduce interrupt hold off time.

I did a test that allocating and touching pages in multiple processes, and
pinging to the test machine in flooding mode to measure response under memory
intensive load.

The test result is:

-2.6.23-rc5
--- testmachine ping statistics ---
3000 packets transmitted, 3000 received, 0% packet loss, time 53222ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.074/0.652/172.228/7.176 ms, pipe 11, ipg/ewma
17.746/0.092 ms

-2.6.23-rc5-patched
--- testmachine ping statistics ---
3000 packets transmitted, 3000 received, 0% packet loss, time 51924ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.108/3.884/0.114 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma
17.314/0.091 ms

Max round-trip-time was improved.

The test machine spec is that 4CPU(3.16GHz, Hyper-threading enabled)
8GB memory , 8GB swap.

I did ping test again to observe performance deterioration caused by taking
a ref.

-2.6.23-rc6-with-modifiedpatch
--- testmachine ping statistics ---
3000 packets transmitted, 3000 received, 0% packet loss, time 53386ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.074/0.110/4.716/0.147 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma 17.801/0.129 ms

The result for my original patch is as follows.

-2.6.23-rc5-with-originalpatch
--- testmachine ping statistics ---
3000 packets transmitted, 3000 received, 0% packet loss, time 51924ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.072/0.108/3.884/0.114 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma 17.314/0.091 ms

The influence to response was small.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitalised var warning]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix locking]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix function declaration]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix BUG at include/linux/mm.h:220!]
[hugh@veritas.com: kill redundancy in rotate_reclaimable_page]
[hugh@veritas.com: move_tail_pages into lru_add_drain]
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swap.c