[PATCH mm-unstable v1 7/7] mm: multi-gen LRU: simplify lru_gen_look_around()

From: T.J. Alumbaugh
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 19:42:16 EST


Update the folio generation in place with or without
current->reclaim_state->mm_walk. The LRU lock is held for longer, if
mm_walk is NULL and the number of folios to update is more than
PAGEVEC_SIZE.

This causes a measurable regression from the LRU lock contention
during a microbencmark. But a tiny regression is not worth the
complexity.

Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <talumbau@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ff3b4aa3c31f..ac51150d2d36 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4587,13 +4587,12 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
{
int i;
- pte_t *pte;
unsigned long start;
unsigned long end;
- unsigned long addr;
struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk;
int young = 0;
- unsigned long bitmap[BITS_TO_LONGS(MIN_LRU_BATCH)] = {};
+ pte_t *pte = pvmw->pte;
+ unsigned long addr = pvmw->address;
struct folio *folio = pfn_folio(pvmw->pfn);
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = folio_memcg(folio);
struct pglist_data *pgdat = folio_pgdat(folio);
@@ -4610,25 +4609,28 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
/* avoid taking the LRU lock under the PTL when possible */
walk = current->reclaim_state ? current->reclaim_state->mm_walk : NULL;

- start = max(pvmw->address & PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_start);
- end = min(pvmw->address | ~PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;
+ start = max(addr & PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_start);
+ end = min(addr | ~PMD_MASK, pvmw->vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;

if (end - start > MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE) {
- if (pvmw->address - start < MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2)
+ if (addr - start < MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2)
end = start + MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE;
- else if (end - pvmw->address < MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2)
+ else if (end - addr < MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2)
start = end - MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE;
else {
- start = pvmw->address - MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2;
- end = pvmw->address + MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2;
+ start = addr - MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2;
+ end = addr + MIN_LRU_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE / 2;
}
}

- pte = pvmw->pte - (pvmw->address - start) / PAGE_SIZE;
+ /* folio_update_gen() requires stable folio_memcg() */
+ if (!mem_cgroup_trylock_pages(memcg))
+ return;

- rcu_read_lock();
arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();

+ pte -= (addr - start) / PAGE_SIZE;
+
for (i = 0, addr = start; addr != end; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long pfn;

@@ -4653,56 +4655,27 @@ void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
!folio_test_swapcache(folio)))
folio_mark_dirty(folio);

+ if (walk) {
+ old_gen = folio_update_gen(folio, new_gen);
+ if (old_gen >= 0 && old_gen != new_gen)
+ update_batch_size(walk, folio, old_gen, new_gen);
+
+ continue;
+ }
+
old_gen = folio_lru_gen(folio);
if (old_gen < 0)
folio_set_referenced(folio);
else if (old_gen != new_gen)
- __set_bit(i, bitmap);
+ folio_activate(folio);
}

arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ mem_cgroup_unlock_pages();

/* feedback from rmap walkers to page table walkers */
if (suitable_to_scan(i, young))
update_bloom_filter(lruvec, max_seq, pvmw->pmd);
-
- if (!walk && bitmap_weight(bitmap, MIN_LRU_BATCH) < PAGEVEC_SIZE) {
- for_each_set_bit(i, bitmap, MIN_LRU_BATCH) {
- folio = pfn_folio(pte_pfn(pte[i]));
- folio_activate(folio);
- }
- return;
- }
-
- /* folio_update_gen() requires stable folio_memcg() */
- if (!mem_cgroup_trylock_pages(memcg))
- return;
-
- if (!walk) {
- spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
- new_gen = lru_gen_from_seq(lruvec->lrugen.max_seq);
- }
-
- for_each_set_bit(i, bitmap, MIN_LRU_BATCH) {
- folio = pfn_folio(pte_pfn(pte[i]));
- if (folio_memcg_rcu(folio) != memcg)
- continue;
-
- old_gen = folio_update_gen(folio, new_gen);
- if (old_gen < 0 || old_gen == new_gen)
- continue;
-
- if (walk)
- update_batch_size(walk, folio, old_gen, new_gen);
- else
- lru_gen_update_size(lruvec, folio, old_gen, new_gen);
- }
-
- if (!walk)
- spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
-
- mem_cgroup_unlock_pages();
}

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