From 68600f623d69da428c6163275f97ca126e1a8ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roman Gushchin Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:03:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error I've noticed, that dying memory cgroups are often pinned in memory by a single pagecache page. Even under moderate memory pressure they sometimes stayed in such state for a long time. That looked strange. My investigation showed that the problem is caused by applying the LRU pressure balancing math: scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[lru], denominator), where denominator = fraction[anon] + fraction[file] + 1. Because fraction[lru] is always less than denominator, if the initial scan size is 1, the result is always 0. This means the last page is not scanned and has no chances to be reclaimed. Fix this by rounding up the result of the division. In practice this change significantly improves the speed of dying cgroups reclaim. [guro@fb.com: prevent double calculation of DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP() arguments] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180829213311.GA13501@castle Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827162621.30187-3-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/math64.h | 3 +++ mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/math64.h b/include/linux/math64.h index 837f2f2d1d34..bb2c84afb80c 100644 --- a/include/linux/math64.h +++ b/include/linux/math64.h @@ -281,4 +281,7 @@ static inline u64 mul_u64_u32_div(u64 a, u32 mul, u32 divisor) } #endif /* mul_u64_u32_div */ +#define DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(ll, d) \ + ({ u64 _tmp = (d); div64_u64((ll) + _tmp - 1, _tmp); }) + #endif /* _LINUX_MATH64_H */ diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index c5ef7240cbcb..961401c46334 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2456,9 +2456,11 @@ out: /* * Scan types proportional to swappiness and * their relative recent reclaim efficiency. + * Make sure we don't miss the last page + * because of a round-off error. */ - scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], - denominator); + scan = DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP(scan * fraction[file], + denominator); break; case SCAN_FILE: case SCAN_ANON: -- 2.20.1