From 612e44939c3c77245ac80843c0c7876c8cf97282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:57:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: workingset: eviction buckets for bigmem/lowbit machines For per-cgroup thrash detection, we need to store the memcg ID inside the radix tree cookie as well. However, on 32 bit that doesn't leave enough bits for the eviction timestamp to cover the necessary range of recently evicted pages. The radix tree entry would look like this: [ RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL(2) | ZONEID(2) | MEMCGID(16) | EVICTION(12) ] 12 bits means 4096 pages, means 16M worth of recently evicted pages. But refaults are actionable up to distances covering half of memory. To not miss refaults, we have to stretch out the range at the cost of how precisely we can tell when a page was evicted. This way we can shave off lower bits from the eviction timestamp until the necessary range is covered. E.g. grouping evictions into 1M buckets (256 pages) will stretch the longest representable refault distance to 4G. This patch implements eviction buckets that are automatically sized according to the available bits and the necessary refault range, in preparation for per-cgroup thrash detection. The maximum actionable distance is currently half of memory, but to support memory hotplug of up to 200% of boot-time memory, we size the buckets to cover double the distance. Beyond that, thrashing won't be detectable anymore. During boot, the kernel will print out the exact parameters, like so: [ 0.113929] workingset: timestamp_bits=12 max_order=18 bucket_order=6 In this example, there are 12 radix entry bits available for the eviction timestamp, to cover a maximum distance of 2^18 pages (this is a 1G machine). Consequently, evictions must be grouped into buckets of 2^6 pages, or 256K. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/workingset.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c index f874b2c663e3..9a26a60368d2 100644 --- a/mm/workingset.c +++ b/mm/workingset.c @@ -156,8 +156,19 @@ ZONES_SHIFT + NODES_SHIFT) #define EVICTION_MASK (~0UL >> EVICTION_SHIFT) +/* + * Eviction timestamps need to be able to cover the full range of + * actionable refaults. However, bits are tight in the radix tree + * entry, and after storing the identifier for the lruvec there might + * not be enough left to represent every single actionable refault. In + * that case, we have to sacrifice granularity for distance, and group + * evictions into coarser buckets by shaving off lower timestamp bits. + */ +static unsigned int bucket_order __read_mostly; + static void *pack_shadow(unsigned long eviction, struct zone *zone) { + eviction >>= bucket_order; eviction = (eviction << NODES_SHIFT) | zone_to_nid(zone); eviction = (eviction << ZONES_SHIFT) | zone_idx(zone); eviction = (eviction << RADIX_TREE_EXCEPTIONAL_SHIFT); @@ -178,7 +189,7 @@ static void unpack_shadow(void *shadow, struct zone **zonep, entry >>= NODES_SHIFT; *zonep = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones + zid; - *evictionp = entry; + *evictionp = entry << bucket_order; } /** @@ -400,8 +411,25 @@ static struct lock_class_key shadow_nodes_key; static int __init workingset_init(void) { + unsigned int timestamp_bits; + unsigned int max_order; int ret; + BUILD_BUG_ON(BITS_PER_LONG < EVICTION_SHIFT); + /* + * Calculate the eviction bucket size to cover the longest + * actionable refault distance, which is currently half of + * memory (totalram_pages/2). However, memory hotplug may add + * some more pages at runtime, so keep working with up to + * double the initial memory by using totalram_pages as-is. + */ + timestamp_bits = BITS_PER_LONG - EVICTION_SHIFT; + max_order = fls_long(totalram_pages - 1); + if (max_order > timestamp_bits) + bucket_order = max_order - timestamp_bits; + printk("workingset: timestamp_bits=%d max_order=%d bucket_order=%u\n", + timestamp_bits, max_order, bucket_order); + ret = list_lru_init_key(&workingset_shadow_nodes, &shadow_nodes_key); if (ret) goto err; -- 2.39.5