linux/mm/mmzone.c
Nhat Pham b5ba474f3f zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure
Currently, we only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is
hit.  This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are
unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious
memory.  It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead
of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as
memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).

This patch implements a memcg- and NUMA-aware shrinker for zswap, that is
initiated when there is memory pressure.  The shrinker does not have any
parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a
per-memcg basis.

Furthermore, to make it more robust for many workloads and prevent
overshrinking (i.e evicting warm pages that might be refaulted into
memory), we build in the following heuristics:

* Estimate the number of warm pages residing in zswap, and attempt to
  protect this region of the zswap LRU.
* Scale the number of freeable objects by an estimate of the memory
  saving factor. The better zswap compresses the data, the fewer pages
  we will evict to swap (as we will otherwise incur IO for relatively
  small memory saving).
* During reclaim, if the shrinker encounters a page that is also being
  brought into memory, the shrinker will cautiously terminate its
  shrinking action, as this is a sign that it is touching the warmer
  region of the zswap LRU.

As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the
linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in
tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall
performance.  Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe
from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.

[nphamcs@gmail.com: check shrinker enablement early, use less costly stat flushing]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206194456.3234203-1-nphamcs@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231130194023.4102148-7-nphamcs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-12 10:57:02 -08:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* linux/mm/mmzone.c
*
* management codes for pgdats, zones and page flags
*/
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mmzone.h>
struct pglist_data *first_online_pgdat(void)
{
return NODE_DATA(first_online_node);
}
struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
{
int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);
if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
return NULL;
return NODE_DATA(nid);
}
/*
* next_zone - helper magic for for_each_zone()
*/
struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone)
{
pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
if (zone < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES - 1)
zone++;
else {
pgdat = next_online_pgdat(pgdat);
if (pgdat)
zone = pgdat->node_zones;
else
zone = NULL;
}
return zone;
}
static inline int zref_in_nodemask(struct zoneref *zref, nodemask_t *nodes)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
return node_isset(zonelist_node_idx(zref), *nodes);
#else
return 1;
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
}
/* Returns the next zone at or below highest_zoneidx in a zonelist */
struct zoneref *__next_zones_zonelist(struct zoneref *z,
enum zone_type highest_zoneidx,
nodemask_t *nodes)
{
/*
* Find the next suitable zone to use for the allocation.
* Only filter based on nodemask if it's set
*/
if (unlikely(nodes == NULL))
while (zonelist_zone_idx(z) > highest_zoneidx)
z++;
else
while (zonelist_zone_idx(z) > highest_zoneidx ||
(z->zone && !zref_in_nodemask(z, nodes)))
z++;
return z;
}
void lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
enum lru_list lru;
memset(lruvec, 0, sizeof(struct lruvec));
spin_lock_init(&lruvec->lru_lock);
zswap_lruvec_state_init(lruvec);
for_each_lru(lru)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lruvec->lists[lru]);
/*
* The "Unevictable LRU" is imaginary: though its size is maintained,
* it is never scanned, and unevictable pages are not threaded on it
* (so that their lru fields can be reused to hold mlock_count).
* Poison its list head, so that any operations on it would crash.
*/
list_del(&lruvec->lists[LRU_UNEVICTABLE]);
lru_gen_init_lruvec(lruvec);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING) && !defined(LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS)
int folio_xchg_last_cpupid(struct folio *folio, int cpupid)
{
unsigned long old_flags, flags;
int last_cpupid;
old_flags = READ_ONCE(folio->flags);
do {
flags = old_flags;
last_cpupid = (flags >> LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT) & LAST_CPUPID_MASK;
flags &= ~(LAST_CPUPID_MASK << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT);
flags |= (cpupid & LAST_CPUPID_MASK) << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT;
} while (unlikely(!try_cmpxchg(&folio->flags, &old_flags, flags)));
return last_cpupid;
}
#endif