lwn.git/mm/Makefile, branch v3.14.48

mm: per-thread vma caching

2014-10-09T19:21:29+00:00

commit 615d6e8756c87149f2d4c1b93d471bca002bd849 upstream. This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(), avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults. The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random, thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy caching schemes can be too high to consider. We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality. Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations below 1%. The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost. Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely, the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box: 1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to the cache. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 | | patched | 73.45% | 13.58 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current approach as we're dealing with good locality. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 | | patched | 88.09% | 9.31 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 70.66% | 17.14 | | patched | 91.15% | 12.57 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just about non-existent. The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach reduces it considerably. For instance, with 80 threads: +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 1.06% | 91.54 | | patched | 99.97% | 14.18 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON] [hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Oleg Nesterov Tested-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

zsmalloc: move it under mm

2014-01-31T00:56:55+00:00

This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory. Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom allocator. Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations. zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to achieve these design goals. zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or "size classes" in zsmalloc terms. Instead it allows multiple single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs the slab. This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory pressure. Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage. This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE. With the kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size, the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover space. This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being directly addressable by the user. The user is given an non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request. That handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to the mapped region that can be used. The mapping is necessary since the object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages. The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly [sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Nitin Gupta Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Bob Liu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Luigi Semenzato Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Seth Jennings Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

list: add a new LRU list type

2013-09-10T22:56:30+00:00

Several subsystems use the same construct for LRU lists - a list head, a spin lock and and item count. They also use exactly the same code for adding and removing items from the LRU. Create a generic type for these LRU lists. This is the beginning of generic, node aware LRUs for shrinkers to work with. [glommer@openvz.org: enum defined constants for lru. Suggested by gthelen, don't relock over retry] Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Al Viro Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg Cc: Carlos Maiolino Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chuck Lever Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: J. Bruce Fields Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Stultz Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

zswap: add to mm/

2013-07-11T01:11:34+00:00

zswap is a thin backend for frontswap that takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them and store them in a RAM-based memory pool. This can result in a significant I/O reduction on the swap device and, in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster than reading from the swap device, can also improve workload performance. It also has support for evicting swap pages that are currently compressed in zswap to the swap device on an LRU(ish) basis. This functionality makes zswap a true cache in that, once the cache is full, the oldest pages can be moved out of zswap to the swap device so newer pages can be compressed and stored in zswap. This patch adds the zswap driver to mm/ Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Robert Jennings Cc: Jenifer Hopper Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Cody P Schafer Cc: Hugh Dickens Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zbud: add to mm/

2013-07-11T01:11:34+00:00

zbud is an special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher density approach when reclaim will be used. zbud works by storing compressed pages, or "zpages", together in pairs in a single memory page called a "zbud page". The first buddy is "left justifed" at the beginning of the zbud page, and the last buddy is "right justified" at the end of the zbud page. The benefit is that if either buddy is freed, the freed buddy space, coalesced with whatever slack space that existed between the buddies, results in the largest possible free region within the zbud page. zbud also provides an attractive lower bound on density. The ratio of zpages to zbud pages can not be less than 1. This ensures that zbud can never "do harm" by using more pages to store zpages than the uncompressed zpages would have used on their own. This implementation is a rewrite of the zbud allocator internally used by zcache in the driver/staging tree. The rewrite was necessary to remove some of the zcache specific elements that were ingrained throughout and provide a generic allocation interface that can later be used by zsmalloc and others. This patch adds zbud to mm/ for later use by zswap. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Robert Jennings Cc: Jenifer Hopper Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Cody P Schafer Cc: Hugh Dickens Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Bob Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: add memory.pressure_level events

2013-04-29T22:54:38+00:00

With this patch userland applications that want to maintain the interactivity/memory allocation cost can use the pressure level notifications. The levels are defined like this: The "low" level means that the system is reclaiming memory for new allocations. Monitoring this reclaiming activity might be useful for maintaining cache level. Upon notification, the program (typically "Activity Manager") might analyze vmstat and act in advance (i.e. prematurely shutdown unimportant services). The "medium" level means that the system is experiencing medium memory pressure, the system might be making swap, paging out active file caches, etc. Upon this event applications may decide to further analyze vmstat/zoneinfo/memcg or internal memory usage statistics and free any resources that can be easily reconstructed or re-read from a disk. The "critical" level means that the system is actively thrashing, it is about to out of memory (OOM) or even the in-kernel OOM killer is on its way to trigger. Applications should do whatever they can to help the system. It might be too late to consult with vmstat or any other statistics, so it's advisable to take an immediate action. The events are propagated upward until the event is handled, i.e. the events are not pass-through. Here is what this means: for example you have three cgroups: A->B->C. Now you set up an event listener on cgroups A, B and C, and suppose group C experiences some pressure. In this situation, only group C will receive the notification, i.e. groups A and B will not receive it. This is done to avoid excessive "broadcasting" of messages, which disturbs the system and which is especially bad if we are low on memory or thrashing. So, organize the cgroups wisely, or propagate the events manually (or, ask us to implement the pass-through events, explaining why would you need them.) Performance wise, the memory pressure notifications feature itself is lightweight and does not require much of bookkeeping, in contrast to the rest of memcg features. Unfortunately, as of current memcg implementation, pages accounting is an inseparable part and cannot be turned off. The good news is that there are some efforts[1] to improve the situation; plus, implementing the same, fully API-compatible[2] interface for CONFIG_MEMCG=n case (e.g. embedded) is also a viable option, so it will not require any changes on the userland side. [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/6291 [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/454 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CGROPUPS=n warnings] Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Glauber Costa Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Leonid Moiseichuk Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility

2012-12-12T01:22:26+00:00

Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest, thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload. This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups] [rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree

2012-10-09T07:22:39+00:00

Implement an interval tree as a replacement for the VMA prio_tree. The algorithms are similar to lib/interval_tree.c; however that code can't be directly reused as the interval endpoints are not explicitly stored in the VMA. So instead, the common algorithm is moved into a template and the details (node type, how to get interval endpoints from the node, etc) are filled in using the C preprocessor. Once the interval tree functions are available, using them as a replacement to the VMA prio tree is a relatively simple, mechanical job. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: factor out memory isolate functions

2012-08-01T01:42:45+00:00

mm/page_alloc.c has some memory isolation functions but they are used only when we enable CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}. So let's make it configurable by new CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION so that it can reduce binary size and we can check it simple by CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION, not if defined CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Marek Szyprowski Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: rename config variables

2012-08-01T01:42:43+00:00

Sanity: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM [mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits] Cc: Glauber Costa Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds