The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-mglru-fix-underprotected-page-cache.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Subject: mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 23:14:04 -0700
Unmapped folios accessed through file descriptors can be underprotected. Those folios are added to the oldest generation based on:
1. The fact that they are less costly to reclaim (no need to walk the rmap and flush the TLB) and have less impact on performance (don't cause major PFs and can be non-blocking if needed again). 2. The observation that they are likely to be single-use. E.g., for client use cases like Android, its apps parse configuration files and store the data in heap (anon); for server use cases like MySQL, it reads from InnoDB files and holds the cached data for tables in buffer pools (anon).
However, the oldest generation can be very short lived, and if so, it doesn't provide the PID controller with enough time to respond to a surge of refaults. (Note that the PID controller uses weighted refaults and those from evicted generations only take a half of the whole weight.) In other words, for a short lived generation, the moving average smooths out the spike quickly.
To fix the problem: 1. For folios that are already on LRU, if they can be beyond the tracking range of tiers, i.e., five accesses through file descriptors, move them to the second oldest generation to give them more time to age. (Note that tiers are used by the PID controller to statistically determine whether folios accessed multiple times through file descriptors are worth protecting.) 2. When adding unmapped folios to LRU, adjust the placement of them so that they are not too close to the tail. The effect of this is similar to the above.
On Android, launching 55 apps sequentially: Before After Change workingset_refault_anon 25641024 25598972 0% workingset_refault_file 115016834 106178438 -8%
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208061407.2125867-1-yuzhao@google.com Fixes: ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla quic_charante@quicinc.com Tested-by: Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh@google.com Cc: T.J. Mercier tjmercier@google.com Cc: Kairui Song ryncsn@gmail.com Cc: Hillf Danton hdanton@sina.com Cc: Jaroslav Pulchart jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- mm/workingset.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h~mm-mglru-fix-underprotected-page-cache +++ a/include/linux/mm_inline.h @@ -232,22 +232,27 @@ static inline bool lru_gen_add_folio(str if (folio_test_unevictable(folio) || !lrugen->enabled) return false; /* - * There are three common cases for this page: - * 1. If it's hot, e.g., freshly faulted in or previously hot and - * migrated, add it to the youngest generation. - * 2. If it's cold but can't be evicted immediately, i.e., an anon page - * not in swapcache or a dirty page pending writeback, add it to the - * second oldest generation. - * 3. Everything else (clean, cold) is added to the oldest generation. + * There are four common cases for this page: + * 1. If it's hot, i.e., freshly faulted in, add it to the youngest + * generation, and it's protected over the rest below. + * 2. If it can't be evicted immediately, i.e., a dirty page pending + * writeback, add it to the second youngest generation. + * 3. If it should be evicted first, e.g., cold and clean from + * folio_rotate_reclaimable(), add it to the oldest generation. + * 4. Everything else falls between 2 & 3 above and is added to the + * second oldest generation if it's considered inactive, or the + * oldest generation otherwise. See lru_gen_is_active(). */ if (folio_test_active(folio)) seq = lrugen->max_seq; else if ((type == LRU_GEN_ANON && !folio_test_swapcache(folio)) || (folio_test_reclaim(folio) && (folio_test_dirty(folio) || folio_test_writeback(folio)))) - seq = lrugen->min_seq[type] + 1; - else + seq = lrugen->max_seq - 1; + else if (reclaiming || lrugen->min_seq[type] + MIN_NR_GENS >= lrugen->max_seq) seq = lrugen->min_seq[type]; + else + seq = lrugen->min_seq[type] + 1;
gen = lru_gen_from_seq(seq); flags = (gen + 1UL) << LRU_GEN_PGOFF; --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-mglru-fix-underprotected-page-cache +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4232,7 +4232,7 @@ static bool sort_folio(struct lruvec *lr }
/* protected */ - if (tier > tier_idx) { + if (tier > tier_idx || refs == BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH)) { int hist = lru_hist_from_seq(lrugen->min_seq[type]);
gen = folio_inc_gen(lruvec, folio, false); --- a/mm/workingset.c~mm-mglru-fix-underprotected-page-cache +++ a/mm/workingset.c @@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ static void lru_gen_refault(struct folio * 1. For pages accessed through page tables, hotter pages pushed out * hot pages which refaulted immediately. * 2. For pages accessed multiple times through file descriptors, - * numbers of accesses might have been out of the range. + * they would have been protected by sort_folio(). */ - if (lru_gen_in_fault() || refs == BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH)) { - folio_set_workingset(folio); + if (lru_gen_in_fault() || refs >= BIT(LRU_REFS_WIDTH) - 1) { + set_mask_bits(&folio->flags, 0, LRU_REFS_MASK | BIT(PG_workingset)); mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_RESTORE_BASE + type, delta); } unlock: _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yuzhao@google.com are