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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2021-06-29 05:37:12 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-06-29 20:53:49 +0300
commitf4c4a3f48480730214c4f02ffa480f6bf5b0718f (patch)
tree3bb1367bfd7191cafad376844a04f3c50ae41bfd /include
parenta4b451143fa275a31f17a93adac3b8dbb3d20ca2 (diff)
downloadlinux-f4c4a3f48480730214c4f02ffa480f6bf5b0718f.tar.xz
mm: free idle swap cache page after COW
With commit 09854ba94c6a ("mm: do_wp_page() simplification"), after COW, the idle swap cache page (neither the page nor the corresponding swap entry is mapped by any process) will be left in the LRU list, even if it's in the active list or the head of the inactive list. So, the page reclaimer may take quite some overhead to reclaim these actually unused pages. To help the page reclaiming, in this patch, after COW, the idle swap cache page will be tried to be freed. To avoid to introduce much overhead to the hot COW code path, a) there's almost zero overhead for non-swap case via checking PageSwapCache() firstly. b) the page lock is acquired via trylock only. To test the patch, we used pmbench memory accessing benchmark with working-set larger than available memory on a 2-socket Intel server with a NVMe SSD as swap device. Test results shows that the pmbench score increases up to 23.8% with the decreased size of swap cache and swapin throughput. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601053143.1380078-1-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> [use free_swap_cache()] Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/swap.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 46d51d058d05..49b1dd2c100b 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ extern void __delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *page,
extern void delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void clear_shadow_from_swap_cache(int type, unsigned long begin,
unsigned long end);
+extern void free_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void free_pages_and_swap_cache(struct page **, int);
extern struct page *lookup_swap_cache(swp_entry_t entry,
@@ -551,6 +552,10 @@ static inline void put_swap_device(struct swap_info_struct *si)
#define free_pages_and_swap_cache(pages, nr) \
release_pages((pages), (nr));
+static inline void free_swap_cache(struct page *page)
+{
+}
+
static inline void show_swap_cache_info(void)
{
}