In vm_pageout_scan_inactive, release the object lock when we go to
refill the scan batch queue so that someone else has a chance to acquire
it. This improves access latency to the object when the pagedaemon is
processing many consecutive pages from a single object, and also in any
case avoids a hiccup during refill for the last touched object.
Reviewed by: alc, markj (previous version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45288
Remove ancient SCCS tags from the tree, automated scripting, with two
minor fixup to keep things compiling. All the common forms in the tree
were removed with a perl script.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Rather than waiting until the batchqueue is full to acquire the lock &
process the queue, we now start trying to acquire the lock using trylocks
when the batchqueue is 1/2 full. This removes almost all contention on the
vm pagequeue mutex for for our busy sendfile() based web workload.
It also greadly reduces the amount of time a network driver ithread
remains blocked on a mutex, and eliminates some packet drops under
heavy load.
So that the system does not loose the benefit of processing large
batchqueues, I've doubled the size of the batchqueues. This way, when
there is no contention, we process the same batch size as before.
This has been run for several months on a busy Netflix server, as well
as on my personal desktop.
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37305
Now that OBJT_DEFAULT objects can't be instantiated, we can simplify
checks of the form object->type == OBJT_DEFAULT || (object->flags &
OBJ_SWAP) != 0. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35788
Commit 4b8365d752 introduced the ability to dynamically register
VM object types, for use by tmpfs, which creates swap-backed objects.
As a part of this, checks for such objects changed from
object->type == OBJT_DEFAULT || object->type == OBJT_SWAP
to
object->type == OBJT_DEFAULT || (object->flags & OBJ_SWAP) != 0
In particular, objects of type OBJT_DEFAULT do not have OBJ_SWAP set;
the swap pager sets this flag when converting from OBJT_DEFAULT to
OBJT_SWAP.
A few of these checks are done without the object lock held. It turns
out that this can result in false negatives since the swap pager
converts objects like so:
object->type = OBJT_SWAP;
object->flags |= OBJ_SWAP;
Fix the problem by adding explicit tests for OBJT_SWAP objects in
unlocked checks.
PR: 258932
Fixes: 4b8365d752 ("Add OBJT_SWAP_TMPFS pager")
Reported by: bdrewery
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35470
This reverts commit 3de96d664a.
Problem is that it is possible to reach the state with ref_count ==
1 for the mapped non-anonymous object. For instance, anonymous posix
shmfd or linux shmfs object could be mapped, and then corresponding
file descriptor closed, dropping the object reference owned by the
shmfd/shmfs file. Then the check in inactive scan assumes that the
object and page are not mapped and frees the page, while they are not.
PR: 261707
Discussed with: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: now
For non-anonymous swap objects, there is always a reference from the
owner to the object to keep it from recycling. Account for it when
deciding should we query pmap for hardware active references for the
page.
As result, we avoid unneeded calls to pmap_ts_referenced(), which for
non-mapped page means avoiding unneccessary lock and unlock of the pv list.
Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33924
Previously we'd always print "out of swap space." This can be
misleading, as there are other reasons an OOM kill can be triggered. In
particular, it's entirely possible to trigger an OOM kill on a system
with plenty of free swap space.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33810
and remove repetetive code that calculates vnode locking type for write.
Reviewed by: khng, markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31405
Mostly in cases where OBJ_SWAP flag works as well, or by reversing the
condition so that object types can be listed.
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30168
This is OBJT_SWAP pager, specialized for tmpfs. Right now, both swap pager
and generic vm code have to explicitly handle swap objects which are tmpfs
vnode v_object, in the special ways. Replace (almost) all such places with
proper methods.
Since VM still needs a notion of the 'swap object', regardless of its
use, add yet another type-classification flag OBJ_SWAP. Set it in
vm_object_allocate() where other type-class flags are set.
This change almost completely eliminates the knowledge of tmpfs from VM,
and opens a way to make OBJT_SWAP_TMPFS loadable from tmpfs.ko.
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30070
With helper page daemon threads, enabled by default in r364786, we
divide the inactive target by the number of threads, rounding down, and
sum the total number of pages freed by the threads. This sum is
compared with the original target, but by rounding down we might lose
pages, causing the page daemon control loop to conclude that inactive
queue scanning isn't keeping up with demand for free pages. Typically
this results in excessive swapping.
Fix the problem by accounting for the error in the main pagedaemon
thread's target. Note that by default the problem will manifest only in
systems with >16 CPUs in a NUMA domain.
Reviewed by: cem
Discussed with: dougm
Reported and tested by: dhw, glebius
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26610
Since r347532 (merged to stable/12) we only count user-wired pages
towards the system limit. However, we now also treat pages wired by
hypervisors (bhyve and virtualbox) as user-wired, so starting VMs with
large amounts of RAM tends to fail due to the low limit.
The purpose of the limit is to provide a seatbelt, not to impose some
policy on the use of wired memory. Thus, increase the default limit to
allow reasonable VM configurations to work without tuning.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: dougm
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26424
Autoscale vm_pageout worker threads from r364129 with CPU count. The
default is arbitrarily chosen to be 16 CPUs per worker thread, but can
be adjusted with the vm.pageout_cpus_per_thread tunable.
There will never be less than 1 thread per populated NUMA domain, and
the previous arbitrary upper limit (at most ncpus/2 threads per NUMA
domain) is preserved.
Care is taken to gracefully handle asymmetric NUMA nodes, such as empty
node systems (e.g., AMD 2990WX) and systems with nodes of varying size
(e.g., some larger >20 core Intel Haswell/Broadwell Xeon).
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Sponsored by: Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26152
In very high throughput workloads, the inactive scan can become overwhelmed
as you have many cores producing pages and a single core freeing. Since
Mark's introduction of batched pagequeue operations, we can now run multiple
inactive threads working on independent batches.
To avoid confusing the pid and other control algorithms, I (Jeff) do this in
a mpi-like fan out and collect model that is driven from the primary page
daemon. It decides whether the shortfall can be overcome with a single
thread and if not dispatches multiple threads and waits for their results.
The heuristic is based on timing the pageout activity and averaging a
pages-per-second variable which is exponentially decayed. This is visible in
sysctl and may be interesting for other purposes.
I (Jeff) have verified that this does indeed double our paging throughput
when used with two threads. With four we tend to run into other contention
problems. For now I would like to commit this infrastructure with only a
single thread enabled.
The number of worker threads per domain can be controlled with the
'vm.pageout_threads_per_domain' tunable.
Submitted by: jeff (earlier version)
Discussed with: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: probably Netflix (based on contemporary commits)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21629
Finish updating comments to reflect new locking protocols introduced
over the past year. In particular, vm_page_lock is now effectively
unused.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25868
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
Currently, the vm.panic_on_oom sysctl is a boolean which controls the
behavior of the VM system when it encounters an out-of-memory situation.
If set to 0, the VM system kills the largest process. If set to any other
value, the VM system will initiate a panic.
This change makes the sysctl a count of events. If set to 0, the VM system
kills the largest process. If set to any other value, the VM system will
kill the largest process until it has seen the specified number of
out-of-memory events. Once it reaches the specified number of events, it
will initiate a panic.
This change is helpful in capturing cores when the system is in a perpetual
cycle of out-of-memory events (as opposed to just hitting one or two
sporadic out-of-memory events).
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23601
r355004 removed return statement from this loop with intention to also
call uma_reclaim_wakeup(). But in case of vm.lowmem_period=0 it causes
infinite loop.
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
The page daemon loops may move pages back to the active queue if
references are detected. In this case we must take care to clear
existing queue operation flags. In particular, PGA_REQUEUE_HEAD may be
set, and that flag is only valid if the page belongs to the inactive
queue.
Also fix a bug in the active queue scan where we were updating "old"
instead of "new". This would only have been hit in rare cases where the
page moved out of the active queue after the beginning of the scan.
Reported by: Bob Prohaska, Idwer Vollering
Tested by: Idwer Vollering
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23001
With the previous reviews, the page lock is no longer required in order
to perform queue operations on a page. It is also no longer needed in
the page queue scans. This change effectively eliminates remaining uses
of the page lock and also the false sharing caused by multiple pages
sharing a page lock.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22885
Some recent work aims to remove the use of the page lock for
synchronizing updates to page queue state. This change adds a mechanism
to preserve the existing behaviour of lazily dequeuing wired pages,
which was previously synchronized using the page lock.
Handle this by setting PGA_DEQUEUE when a managed page's wire count
transitions from 0 to 1. When the page daemon encounters a page with a
flag in PGA_QUEUE_OP_MASK set, it creates a batch queue entry for that
page, but in so doing it does not modify the page itself and thus racing
with a concurrent free of the page is harmless. The flag is advisory;
the page daemon still checks for wirings after acquiring the object and
page xbusy locks.
vm_page_unwire_managed() now clears PGA_DEQUEUE on a 1->0 transition.
It must do this before dropping the reference to avoid a use-after-free
but also handles races with concurrent wirings to ensure that
PGA_DEQUEUE is not left unset on a wired page.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22882
This is in preparation for eliminating the use of the vm_page lock for
protecting queue state operations.
Introduce the vm_page_pqstate_commit_*() functions. These functions act
as helpers around vm_page_astate_fcmpset() and are specialized for
specific types of operations. vm_page_pqstate_commit() wraps these
functions.
Convert a number of routines to use these new helpers. Use
vm_page_release_toq() in vm_page_unwire() and vm_page_release() to
atomically release a wiring reference and release the page into a queue.
This has the side effect that vm_page_unwire() will leave the page in
the active queue if it is already present there.
Convert the page queue scans to use the new helpers. Simplify
vm_pageout_reinsert_inactive(), which requeues pages that were found to
be busy during an inactive queue scan, to avoid duplicating the work of
vm_pqbatch_process_page(). In particular, if PGA_REQUEUE or
PGA_REQUEUE_HEAD is set, let that be handled during batch processing.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22770
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22771
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22772
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22773
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22776
an exclusive object lock.
Previously swap space was freed on a best effort basis when a page that
had valid swap was dirtied, thus invalidating the swap copy. This may be
done inconsistently and requires the object lock which is not always
convenient.
Instead, track when swap space is present. The first dirty is responsible
for deleting space or setting PGA_SWAP_FREE which will trigger background
scans to free the swap space.
Simplify the locking in vm_fault_dirty() now that we can reliably identify
the first dirty.
Discussed with: alc, kib, markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22654
This is a 32-bit structure embedded in each vm_page, consisting mostly
of page queue state. The use of a structure makes it easy to store a
snapshot of a page's queue state in a stack variable and use cmpset
loops to update that state without requiring the page lock.
This change merely adds the structure and updates references to atomic
state fields. No functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, jeff, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22650
Stop subtracting 1024/200 from vmd_page_count/200. I cannot see how
such precise accounting can make a difference on modern systems.
Add some explanation of what the page daemon does and how it handles
memory shortages.
Reviewed by: dougm
Discussed with: jeff, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22396
Use the UMA reclaim thread to asynchronously drain all caches if
there is a severe shortage in a domain. Otherwise we only trigger UMA
reclamation every 10s even when the system has completely run out of
memory.
Stop entirely draining the caches when one domain falls below its min
threshold. In some workloads it is normal for one NUMA domain to end
up being nearly depleted by kernel memory allocations, for example for
the ZFS ARC. The domainset iterators skip domains below the
vmd_min_free theshold on the first iteration, so we should allow that
mechanism to limit further depletion of the domain's free pages before
taking the extreme step of calling uma_reclaim(UMA_RECLAIM_DRAIN_CPU).
Discussed with: jeff
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22395
Atomics are used for page busy and valid state when the shared busy is
held. The details of the locking protocol and valid and dirty
synchronization are in the updated vm_page.h comments.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21594
This is the first in a series of patches that promotes the page busy field
to a first class lock that no longer requires the object lock for
consistency.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21548
In case the implementation ever changes from using a chain of next pointers,
then changing the macro definition will be necessary, but changing all the
files that iterate over vm_map entries will not.
Drop a counter in vm_object.c that would have an effect only if the
vm_map entry count was wrong.
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21882
- Remove a dead variable from the amd64 pmap_extract_and_hold().
- Fix grammar in the vm_page_wire man page.
Reported by: alc
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21639
There are several mechanisms by which a vm_page reference is held,
preventing the page from being freed back to the page allocator. In
particular, holding the page's object lock is sufficient to prevent the
page from being freed; holding the busy lock or a wiring is sufficent as
well. These references are protected by the page lock, which must
therefore be acquired for many per-page operations. This results in
false sharing since the page locks are external to the vm_page
structures themselves and each lock protects multiple structures.
Transition to using an atomically updated per-page reference counter.
The object's reference is counted using a flag bit in the counter. A
second flag bit is used to atomically block new references via
pmap_extract_and_hold() while removing managed mappings of a page.
Thus, the reference count of a page is guaranteed not to increase if the
page is unbusied, unmapped, and the object's write lock is held. As
a consequence of this, the page lock no longer protects a page's
identity; operations which move pages between objects are now
synchronized solely by the objects' locks.
The vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() KPIs are changed. The former
requires that either the object lock or the busy lock is held. The
latter no longer has a return value and may free the page if it releases
the last reference to that page. vm_page_unwire_noq() behaves the same
as before; the caller is responsible for checking its return value and
freeing or enqueuing the page as appropriate. vm_page_wire_mapped() is
introduced for use in pmap_extract_and_hold(). It fails if the page is
concurrently being unmapped, typically triggering a fallback to the
fault handler. vm_page_wire() no longer requires the page lock and
vm_page_unwire() now internally acquires the page lock when releasing
the last wiring of a page (since the page lock still protects a page's
queue state). In particular, synchronization details are no longer
leaked into the caller.
The change excises the page lock from several frequently executed code
paths. In particular, vm_object_terminate() no longer bounces between
page locks as it releases an object's pages, and direct I/O and
sendfile(SF_NOCACHE) completions no longer require the page lock. In
these latter cases we now get linear scalability in the common scenario
where different threads are operating on different files.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped. The DRM ports have been updated to
accomodate the KPI changes.
Reviewed by: jeff (earlier version)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier version), pho
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20486
Queue operations on a page use the page lock when updating the page to
reflect the desired queue state, and the page queue lock when physically
enqueuing or dequeuing a page. Multiple pages share a given page lock,
but queue state is per-page; this false sharing results in heavy lock
contention.
Take a small step towards the use of atomic_cmpset to synchronize
updates to per-page queue state by introducing vm_page_pqstate_cmpset()
and using it in the page daemon. In the longer term the plan is to stop
using the page lock to protect page identity and rely only on the object
and page busy locks. However, since the page daemon avoids acquiring
the object lock except when necessary, some synchronization with a
concurrent free of the page is required. vm_page_pqstate_cmpset() can
be used to ensure that queue state updates are successful only if the
page is not scheduled for a dequeue, which is sufficient for the page
daemon.
Add vm_page_swapqueue(), which moves a page from one queue to another
using vm_page_pqstate_cmpset(). Use it in the active queue scan, which
does not use the object lock. Modify vm_page_dequeue_deferred() to
use vm_page_pqstate_cmpset() as well.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jeff
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21257
The page daemon periodically invokes uma_reclaim() to reclaim cached
items from each zone when the system is under memory pressure. This
is important since the size of these caches is unbounded by default.
However it also results in bursts of high latency when allocating from
heavily used zones as threads miss in the per-CPU caches and must
access the keg in order to allocate new items.
With r340405 we maintain an estimate of each zone's usage of its
(per-NUMA domain) cache of full buckets. Start making use of this
estimate to avoid reclaiming the entire cache when under memory
pressure. In particular, introduce TRIM, DRAIN and DRAIN_CPU
verbs for uma_reclaim() and uma_zone_reclaim(). When trimming, only
items in excess of the estimate are reclaimed. Draining a zone
reclaims all of the cached full buckets (the previous behaviour of
uma_reclaim()), and may further drain the per-CPU caches in extreme
cases.
Now, when under memory pressure, the page daemon will trim zones
rather than draining them. As a result, heavily used zones do not incur
bursts of bucket cache misses following reclamation, but large, unused
caches will be reclaimed as before.
Reviewed by: jeff
Tested by: pho (an earlier version)
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16667
In addition to pagedaemon initiating OOM, also do it from the
vm_fault() internals. Namely, if the thread waits for a free page to
satisfy page fault some preconfigured amount of time, trigger OOM.
These triggers are rate-limited, due to a usual case of several
threads of the same multi-threaded process to enter fault handler
simultaneously. The faults from pagedaemon threads participate in the
calculation of OOM rate, but are not under the limit.
Reviewed by: markj (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Discussed with: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13671
The hold_count and wire_count fields of struct vm_page are separate
reference counters with similar semantics. The remaining essential
differences are that holds are not counted as a reference with respect
to LRU, and holds have an implicit free-on-last unhold semantic whereas
vm_page_unwire() callers must explicitly determine whether to free the
page once the last reference to the page is released.
This change removes the KPIs which directly manipulate hold_count.
Functions such as vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() now return wired pages
instead. Since r328977 the overhead of maintaining LRU for wired pages
is lower, and in many cases vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() callers would
swap holds for wirings on the returned pages anyway, so with this change
we remove a number of page lock acquisitions.
No functional change is intended. __FreeBSD_version is bumped.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
Discussed with: jeff
Discussed with: jhb, np (cxgbe)
Tested by: pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19247
When QUEUE_MACRO_DEBUG_TRASH is configured, removing a queue element
invalidates its queue linkage pointers. vm_pageout_collect_batch()
was relying on these pointers remaining valid after a removal, so
modify it to fetch the next queued page before dequeuing the current
page.
Submitted by: Don Morris <dgmorris@earthlink.net>
Reviewed by: cem, vangyzen
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20842
Use it instead of accessing the wire_count field directly. No
functional change intended.
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20485
Historically we have not distinguished between kernel wirings and user
wirings for accounting purposes. User wirings (via mlock(2)) were
subject to a global limit on the number of wired pages, so if large
swaths of physical memory were wired by the kernel, as happens with
the ZFS ARC among other things, the limit could be exceeded, causing
user wirings to fail.
The change adds a new counter, v_user_wire_count, which counts the
number of virtual pages wired by user processes via mlock(2) and
mlockall(2). Only user-wired pages are subject to the system-wide
limit which helps provide some safety against deadlocks. In
particular, while sources of kernel wirings typically support some
backpressure mechanism, there is no way to reclaim user-wired pages
shorting of killing the wiring process. The limit is exported as
vm.max_user_wired, renamed from vm.max_wired, and changed from u_int
to u_long.
The choice to count virtual user-wired pages rather than physical
pages was done for simplicity. There are mechanisms that can cause
user-wired mappings to be destroyed while maintaining a wiring of
the backing physical page; these make it difficult to accurately
track user wirings at the physical page layer.
The change also closes some holes which allowed user wirings to succeed
even when they would cause the system limit to be exceeded. For
instance, mmap() may now fail with ENOMEM in a process that has called
mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) if the new mapping would cause the user wiring
limit to be exceeded.
Note that bhyve -S is subject to the user wiring limit, which defaults
to 1/3 of physical RAM. Users that wish to exceed the limit must tune
vm.max_user_wired.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie (mlock() test changes)
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
MFC after: 45 days
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19908
linear search can, so use it to avoid a linear search in isqrt.
Approved by: kib (mentor), markj (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20102
