mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:59:16 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:58:16 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commit26aa2d199d6f2cfa6f2ef2a5dfe891f2250e71a0
tree5627ac0c21d16866e2178f8587e7dc86576a90c9
parent5ac95884a784e822b8cbe3d4bd6e9f96b3b71e3f
mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim

This is mostly derived from a patch from Yang Shi:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1560468577-101178-10-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com/

Add code to the reclaim path (shrink_page_list()) to "demote" data to
another NUMA node instead of discarding the data.  This always avoids the
cost of I/O needed to read the page back in and sometimes avoids the
writeout cost when the page is dirty.

A second pass through shrink_page_list() will be made if any demotions
fail.  This essentially falls back to normal reclaim behavior in the case
that demotions fail.  Previous versions of this patch may have simply
failed to reclaim pages which were eligible for demotion but were unable
to be demoted in practice.

For some cases, for example, MADV_PAGEOUT, the pages are always discarded
instead of demoted to follow the kernel API definition.  Because
MADV_PAGEOUT is defined as freeing specified pages regardless in which
tier they are.

Note: This just adds the start of infrastructure for migration.  It is
actually disabled next to the FIXME in migrate_demote_page_ok().

[dave.hansen@linux.intel.com: v11]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721063926.3024591-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-5-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/migrate.h
include/trace/events/migrate.h
mm/vmscan.c