From ddd6d8e975b171ea3f63a011a75820883ff0d479 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Zhao Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:29:38 +0000 Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: remove MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL stats Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: Have secondary MMUs participate in MM_WALK". Today, the MM_WALK capability causes MGLRU to clear the young bit from PMDs and PTEs during the page table walk before eviction, but MGLRU does not call the clear_young() MMU notifier in this case. By not calling this notifier, the MM walk takes less time/CPU, but it causes pages that are accessed mostly through KVM / secondary MMUs to appear younger than they should be. We do call the clear_young() notifier today, but only when attempting to evict the page, so we end up clearing young/accessed information less frequently for secondary MMUs than for mm PTEs, and therefore they appear younger and are less likely to be evicted. Therefore, memory that is *not* being accessed mostly by KVM will be evicted *more* frequently, worsening performance. ChromeOS observed a tab-open latency regression when enabling MGLRU with a setup that involved running a VM: Tab-open latency histogram (ms) Version p50 mean p95 p99 max base 1315 1198 2347 3454 10319 mglru 2559 1311 7399 12060 43758 fix 1119 926 2470 4211 6947 This series replaces the final non-selftest patchs from this series[1], which introduced a similar change (and a new MMU notifier) with KVM optimizations. I'll send a separate series (to Sean and Paolo) for the KVM optimizations. This series also makes proactive reclaim with MGLRU possible for KVM memory. I have verified that this functions correctly with the selftest from [1], but given that that test is a KVM selftest, I'll send it with the rest of the KVM optimizations later. Andrew, let me know if you'd like to take the test now anyway. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240926013506.860253-18-jthoughton@google.com/ This patch (of 2): The removed stats, MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL, are not very helpful and become more complicated to properly compute when adding test/clear_young() notifiers in MGLRU's mm walk. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-1-jthoughton@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-2-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: James Houghton Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: David Stevens Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 17506e4a2835..9342e5692dab 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -458,9 +458,7 @@ struct lru_gen_folio { enum { MM_LEAF_TOTAL, /* total leaf entries */ - MM_LEAF_OLD, /* old leaf entries */ MM_LEAF_YOUNG, /* young leaf entries */ - MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL, /* total non-leaf entries */ MM_NONLEAF_FOUND, /* non-leaf entries found in Bloom filters */ MM_NONLEAF_ADDED, /* non-leaf entries added to Bloom filters */ NR_MM_STATS -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1d4832becdc2cdb2cffe2a6050c9d9fd8ff1c58c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Zhao Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:29:39 +0000 Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: use {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify() When the MM_WALK capability is enabled, memory that is mostly accessed by a VM appears younger than it really is, therefore this memory will be less likely to be evicted. Therefore, the presence of a running VM can significantly increase swap-outs for non-VM memory, regressing the performance for the rest of the system. Fix this regression by always calling {ptep,pmdp}_clear_young_notify() whenever we clear the young bits on PMDs/PTEs. [jthoughton@google.com: fix link-time error] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241019012940.3656292-3-jthoughton@google.com Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: James Houghton Reported-by: David Stevens Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 9342e5692dab..5b1c984daf45 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ struct lru_gen_memcg { void lru_gen_init_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat); void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec); -void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw); +bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw); void lru_gen_init_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); void lru_gen_exit_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); @@ -574,8 +574,9 @@ static inline void lru_gen_init_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec) { } -static inline void lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw) +static inline bool lru_gen_look_around(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw) { + return false; } static inline void lru_gen_init_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) -- cgit v1.2.3