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2014-08-07mm: trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl: report the number of file/anon pages ↵Chen Yucong1-0/+53
respectively Until now, the reporting from trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl is not very useful because we cannot directly use this script for checking the file/anon ratio of scanning. This patch aims to report respectively the number of file/anon pages which were scanned/reclaimed by kswapd or direct-reclaim. Sample output is usually something like the following. Summary Direct reclaims: 8823 Direct reclaim pages scanned: 2438797 Direct reclaim file pages scanned: 1315200 Direct reclaim anon pages scanned: 1123597 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed: 446139 Direct reclaim file pages reclaimed: 378668 Direct reclaim anon pages reclaimed: 67471 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O: 0 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O: 0 Direct reclaim write file async I/O: 0 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O: 4240 Wake kswapd requests: 122310 Time stalled direct reclaim: 13.78 seconds Kswapd wakeups: 25817 Kswapd pages scanned: 170779115 Kswapd file pages scanned: 162725123 Kswapd anon pages scanned: 8053992 Kswapd pages reclaimed: 129065738 Kswapd file pages reclaimed: 128500930 Kswapd anon pages reclaimed: 564808 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O: 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O: 0 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O: 36 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O: 730730 Time kswapd awake: 1015.50 seconds Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-03mm:vmscan: update the trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl for event ↵Chen Yucong1-12/+2
vmscan/mm_vmscan_lru_isolate When using trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl for checking the file/anon rate of scanning, we can find that it can not be performed. At the same time, the following message will be reported: WARNING: Format not as expected for event vmscan/mm_vmscan_lru_isolate 'file' != 'contig_taken' Fewer fields than expected in format at ./trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl line 171, <FORMAT> line 76. In trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl, (contig_taken, contig_dirty, and contig_failed) are be associated respectively to (nr_lumpy_taken, nr_lumpy_dirty, and nr_lumpy_failed) for lumpy reclaim. Via commit c53919adc045 ("mm: vmscan: remove lumpy reclaim"), lumpy reclaim had already been removed by Mel, but the update for trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl was missed. Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-24Documentation/trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl: fix the ↵Vinayak Menon1-9/+9
traceevent regex When irq, preempt and lockdep fields are printed (field 3 in the example below) in the trace output, the script fails. An example entry: kswapd0-610 [000] ...1 158.112152: mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake: nid=0 order=0 Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinayakm.list@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-11mm-tracepoint: rename page-free eventsKonstantin Khlebnikov1-10/+10
Rename mm_page_free_direct into mm_page_free and mm_pagevec_free into mm_page_free_batched Since v2.6.33-5426-gc475dab the kernel triggers mm_page_free_direct for all freed pages, not only for directly freed. So, let's name it properly. For pages freed via page-list we also trigger mm_page_free_batched event. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-01mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise typeMinchan Kim1-4/+4
Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type. Normally, macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger. Quote from Johannes " Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode into independent flags. INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly." This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-23mm: vmscan: tracepoint: account for scanned pages similarly for both ftrace ↵Mel Gorman1-1/+10
and vmstat When correlating ftrace results with /proc/vmstat, I noticed that the reporting scripts value for "pages scanned" differed significantly. Both values were "right" depending on how you look at it. The difference is due to vmstat only counting scanning of the inactive list towards pages scanned. The analysis script for the tracepoint counts active and inactive list yielding a far higher value than vmstat. The resulting scanning/reclaim ratio looks much worse. The tracepoint is ok but this patch updates the reporting script so that the report values for scanned are similar to vmstat. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27tracing, vmscan: add trace events for LRU list shrinkingMel Gorman1-10/+29
There have been numerous reports of stalls that pointed at the problem being somewhere in the VM. There are multiple roots to the problems which means dealing with any of the root problems in isolation is tricky to justify on their own and they would still need integration testing. This patch series puts together two different patch sets which in combination should tackle some of the root causes of latency problems being reported. Patch 1 adds a tracepoint for shrink_inactive_list. For this series, the most important results is being able to calculate the scanning/reclaim ratio as a measure of the amount of work being done by page reclaim. Patch 2 accounts for time spent in congestion_wait. Patches 3-6 were originally developed by Kosaki Motohiro but reworked for this series. It has been noted that lumpy reclaim is far too aggressive and trashes the system somewhat. As SLUB uses high-order allocations, a large cost incurred by lumpy reclaim will be noticeable. It was also reported during transparent hugepage support testing that lumpy reclaim was trashing the system and these patches should mitigate that problem without disabling lumpy reclaim. Patch 7 adds wait_iff_congested() and replaces some callers of congestion_wait(). wait_iff_congested() only sleeps if there is a BDI that is currently congested. Patch 8 notes that any BDI being congested is not necessarily a problem because there could be multiple BDIs of varying speeds and numberous zones. It attempts to track when a zone being reclaimed contains many pages backed by a congested BDI and if so, reclaimers wait on the congestion queue. I ran a number of tests with monitoring on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Each machine had 3G of RAM and the CPUs were X86: Intel P4 2-core X86-64: AMD Phenom 4-core PPC64: PPC970MP Each used a single disk and the onboard IO controller. Dirty ratio was left at 20. I'm just going to report for X86-64 and PPC64 in a vague attempt to keep this report short. Four kernels were tested each based on v2.6.36-rc4 traceonly-v2r2: Patches 1 and 2 to instrument vmscan reclaims and congestion_wait lowlumpy-v2r3: Patches 1-6 to test if lumpy reclaim is better waitcongest-v2r3: Patches 1-7 to only wait on congestion waitwriteback-v2r4: Patches 1-8 to detect when a zone is congested nocongest-v1r5: Patches 1-3 for testing wait_iff_congestion nodirect-v1r5: Patches 1-10 to disable filesystem writeback for better IO The tests run were as follows kernbench compile-based benchmark. Smoke test performance sysbench OLTP read-only benchmark. Will be re-run in the future as read-write micro-mapped-file-stream This is a micro-benchmark from Johannes Weiner that accesses a large sparse-file through mmap(). It was configured to run in only single-CPU mode but can be indicative of how well page reclaim identifies suitable pages. stress-highalloc Tries to allocate huge pages under heavy load. kernbench, iozone and sysbench did not report any performance regression on any machine. sysbench did pressure the system lightly and there was reclaim activity but there were no difference of major interest between the kernels. X86-64 micro-mapped-file-stream traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4 pgalloc_dma 1639.00 ( 0.00%) 667.00 (-145.73%) 1167.00 ( -40.45%) 578.00 (-183.56%) pgalloc_dma32 2842410.00 ( 0.00%) 2842626.00 ( 0.01%) 2843043.00 ( 0.02%) 2843014.00 ( 0.02%) pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgsteal_dma 729.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-757.65%) 609.00 ( -19.70%) 125.00 (-483.20%) pgsteal_dma32 2338721.00 ( 0.00%) 2447354.00 ( 4.44%) 2429536.00 ( 3.74%) 2436772.00 ( 4.02%) pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_kswapd_dma 1469.00 ( 0.00%) 532.00 (-176.13%) 1078.00 ( -36.27%) 220.00 (-567.73%) pgscan_kswapd_dma32 4597713.00 ( 0.00%) 4503597.00 ( -2.09%) 4295673.00 ( -7.03%) 3891686.00 ( -18.14%) pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_direct_dma 71.00 ( 0.00%) 134.00 ( 47.01%) 243.00 ( 70.78%) 352.00 ( 79.83%) pgscan_direct_dma32 305820.00 ( 0.00%) 280204.00 ( -9.14%) 600518.00 ( 49.07%) 957485.00 ( 68.06%) pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pageoutrun 16296.00 ( 0.00%) 21254.00 ( 23.33%) 18447.00 ( 11.66%) 20067.00 ( 18.79%) allocstall 443.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( -62.27%) 513.00 ( 13.65%) 1568.00 ( 71.75%) These are based on the raw figures taken from /proc/vmstat. It's a rough measure of reclaim activity. Note that allocstall counts are higher because we are entering direct reclaim more often as a result of not sleeping in congestion. In itself, it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's easier to get a view of what happened from the vmscan tracepoint report. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 443 273 513 1568 Direct reclaim pages scanned 305968 280402 600825 957933 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 43503 19005 30327 117191 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 3 4 12 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Wake kswapd requests 187649 132338 191695 267701 Kswapd wakeups 3 1 4 1 Kswapd pages scanned 4599269 4454162 4296815 3891906 Kswapd pages reclaimed 2295947 2428434 2399818 2319706 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 1 0 1 1 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 59 187 41 222 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4.34 2.52 6.63 2.96 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 11.15 10.25 11.01 10.19 Total pages scanned 4905237 4734564 4897640 4849839 Total pages reclaimed 2339450 2447439 2430145 2436897 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.69% 51.69% 49.62% 50.25% %age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% %age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 29.23% 19.02% 38.48% 20.25% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 78.58% 78.85% 76.83% 79.86% What is interesting here for nocongest in particular is that while direct reclaim scans more pages, the overall number of pages scanned remains the same and the ratio of pages scanned to pages reclaimed is more or less the same. In other words, while we are sleeping less, reclaim is not doing more work and as direct reclaim and kswapd is awake for less time, it would appear to be doing less work. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 87 196 64 0 Direct time congest waited 4604ms 4732ms 5420ms 0ms Direct full congest waited 72 145 53 0 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 324 1315 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd number congest waited 20 10 15 7 KSwapd time congest waited 1264ms 536ms 884ms 284ms KSwapd full congest waited 10 4 6 2 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 The vanilla kernel spent 8 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and no time at all asleep with the patches. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 10.51 10.73 10.6 11.66 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 14.19 13.00 14.33 12.76 Overall, the tests completed faster. It is interesting to note that backing off further when a zone is congested and not just a BDI was more efficient overall. PPC64 micro-mapped-file-stream pgalloc_dma 3024660.00 ( 0.00%) 3027185.00 ( 0.08%) 3025845.00 ( 0.04%) 3026281.00 ( 0.05%) pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgsteal_dma 2508073.00 ( 0.00%) 2565351.00 ( 2.23%) 2463577.00 ( -1.81%) 2532263.00 ( 0.96%) pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_kswapd_dma 4601307.00 ( 0.00%) 4128076.00 ( -11.46%) 3912317.00 ( -17.61%) 3377165.00 ( -36.25%) pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pgscan_direct_dma 629825.00 ( 0.00%) 971622.00 ( 35.18%) 1063938.00 ( 40.80%) 1711935.00 ( 63.21%) pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) pageoutrun 27776.00 ( 0.00%) 20458.00 ( -35.77%) 18763.00 ( -48.04%) 18157.00 ( -52.98%) allocstall 977.00 ( 0.00%) 2751.00 ( 64.49%) 2098.00 ( 53.43%) 5136.00 ( 80.98%) Similar trends to x86-64. allocstalls are up but it's not necessarily bad. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan Direct reclaims 977 2709 2098 5136 Direct reclaim pages scanned 629825 963814 1063938 1711935 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 75550 242538 150904 387647 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 2 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 10 0 4 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Wake kswapd requests 392119 1201712 571935 571921 Kswapd wakeups 3 2 3 3 Kswapd pages scanned 4601307 4128076 3912317 3377165 Kswapd pages reclaimed 2432523 2318797 2312673 2144616 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 20 1 1 1 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 57 132 11 121 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 6.19 7.30 13.04 10.88 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 21.73 26.51 25.55 23.90 Total pages scanned 5231132 5091890 4976255 5089100 Total pages reclaimed 2508073 2561335 2463577 2532263 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.95% 50.30% 49.51% 49.76% %age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% %age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 18.89% 20.65% 32.65% 27.65% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 72.39% 80.68% 78.21% 77.40% Again, a similar trend that the congestion_wait changes mean that direct reclaim scans more pages but the overall number of pages scanned while slightly reduced, are very similar. The ratio of scanning/reclaimed remains roughly similar. The downside is that kswapd and direct reclaim was awake longer and for a larger percentage of the overall workload. It's possible there were big differences in the amount of time spent reclaiming slab pages between the different kernels which is plausible considering that the micro tests runs after fsmark and sysbench. Trace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 845 1312 104 0 Direct time congest waited 19416ms 26560ms 7544ms 0ms Direct full congest waited 745 1105 72 0 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 1322 2935 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 12ms 312ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 3 KSwapd number congest waited 39 102 75 63 KSwapd time congest waited 2484ms 6760ms 5756ms 3716ms KSwapd full congest waited 20 48 46 25 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 The vanilla kernel spent 20 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and only 312ms asleep with the patches. The time kswapd spent congest waited was also reduced by a large factor. MMTests Statistics: duration ser/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 26.58 28.05 26.9 28.47 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 30.02 32.86 32.67 30.88 With all patches applies, the completion times are very similar. X86-64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Pass 1 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( 2.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) Pass 2 90.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 (-3.00%) 88.00 (-2.00%) 89.00 (-1.00%) At Rest 92.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 91.00 (-1.00%) Success figures across the board are broadly similar. traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 1045 944 886 887 Direct reclaim pages scanned 135091 119604 109382 101019 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 88599 47535 47863 46671 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 494 283 465 280 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 29357 13710 16656 13462 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 154 2 2 3 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 14594 571 509 561 Wake kswapd requests 7491 933 872 892 Kswapd wakeups 814 778 731 780 Kswapd pages scanned 7290822 15341158 11916436 13703442 Kswapd pages reclaimed 3587336 3142496 3094392 3187151 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 91975 32317 28022 29628 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 1992022 789307 829745 849769 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4588.93 2467.16 2495.41 2547.07 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 2497.66 1020.16 1098.06 1176.82 Total pages scanned 7425913 15460762 12025818 13804461 Total pages reclaimed 3675935 3190031 3142255 3233822 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 49.50% 20.63% 26.13% 23.43% %age total pages scanned/written 28.66% 5.41% 7.28% 6.47% %age file pages scanned/written 1.25% 0.21% 0.24% 0.22% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 57.33% 42.15% 42.41% 42.99% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 43.56% 27.87% 29.76% 31.25% Scanned/reclaimed ratios again look good with big improvements in efficiency. The Scanned/written ratios also look much improved. With a better scanned/written ration, there is an expectation that IO would be more efficient and indeed, the time spent in direct reclaim is much reduced by the full series and kswapd spends a little less time awake. Overall, indications here are that allocations were happening much faster and this can be seen with a graph of the latency figures as the allocations were taking place http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-hydra-mean.ps FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 1333 204 169 4 Direct time congest waited 78896ms 8288ms 7260ms 200ms Direct full congest waited 756 92 69 2 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 26 186 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 2504ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 25 KSwapd number congest waited 4 395 227 282 KSwapd time congest waited 384ms 25136ms 10508ms 18380ms KSwapd full congest waited 3 232 98 176 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd full conditional waited 318 0 312 9 Overall, the time spent speeping is reduced. kswapd is still hitting congestion_wait() but that is because there are callers remaining where it wasn't clear in advance if they should be changed to wait_iff_congested() or not. Overall the sleep imes are reduced though - from 79ish seconds to about 19. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3415.43 3386.65 3388.39 3377.5 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 5733.48 3660.33 3689.41 3765.39 With the full series, the time to complete the tests are reduced by 30% PPC64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Pass 1 17.00 ( 0.00%) 34.00 (17.00%) 38.00 (21.00%) 43.00 (26.00%) Pass 2 25.00 ( 0.00%) 37.00 (12.00%) 42.00 (17.00%) 46.00 (21.00%) At Rest 49.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 (-6.00%) 45.00 (-4.00%) 51.00 ( 2.00%) Success rates there are *way* up particularly considering that the 16MB huge pages on PPC64 mean that it's always much harder to allocate them. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4 Direct reclaims 499 505 564 509 Direct reclaim pages scanned 223478 41898 51818 45605 Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 137730 21148 27161 23455 Direct reclaim write file async I/O 399 136 162 136 Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 46977 2865 4686 3998 Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 29 0 1 3 Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 31023 159 237 239 Wake kswapd requests 420 351 360 326 Kswapd wakeups 185 294 249 277 Kswapd pages scanned 15703488 16392500 17821724 17598737 Kswapd pages reclaimed 5808466 2908858 3139386 3145435 Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 159938 18400 18717 13473 Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 3467554 228957 322799 234278 Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0 Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 9665.35 1707.81 2374.32 1871.23 Time kswapd awake (seconds) 9401.21 1367.86 1951.75 1328.88 Total pages scanned 15926966 16434398 17873542 17644342 Total pages reclaimed 5946196 2930006 3166547 3168890 %age total pages scanned/reclaimed 37.33% 17.83% 17.72% 17.96% %age total pages scanned/written 23.27% 1.52% 1.94% 1.43% %age file pages scanned/written 1.01% 0.11% 0.11% 0.08% Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 44.55% 35.10% 41.42% 36.91% Percentage Time kswapd Awake 86.71% 43.58% 52.67% 41.14% While the scanning rates are slightly up, the scanned/reclaimed and scanned/written figures are much improved. The time spent in direct reclaim and with kswapd are massively reduced, mostly by the lowlumpy patches. FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait Direct number congest waited 725 303 126 3 Direct time congest waited 45524ms 9180ms 5936ms 300ms Direct full congest waited 487 190 52 3 Direct number conditional waited 0 0 200 301 Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 1904ms Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 19 KSwapd number congest waited 0 2 23 4 KSwapd time congest waited 0ms 200ms 420ms 404ms KSwapd full congest waited 0 2 2 4 KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0 KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0 Not as dramatic a story here but the time spent asleep is reduced and we can still see what wait_iff_congested is going to sleep when necessary. MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 12028.09 3157.17 3357.79 3199.16 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 10842.07 3138.72 3705.54 3229.85 The time to complete this test goes way down. With the full series, we are allocating over twice the number of huge pages in 30% of the time and there is a corresponding impact on the allocation latency graph available at. http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-powyah-mean.ps This patch: Add a trace event for shrink_inactive_list() and updates the sample postprocessing script appropriately. It can be used to determine how many pages were reclaimed and for non-lumpy reclaim where exactly the pages were reclaimed from. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-10vmscan: tracing: add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace eventsMel Gorman1-0/+686
Add a simple post-processing script for the reclaim-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication of how much traffic there is on the LRU lists and how severe latencies due to reclaim are. Example output looks like the following Reclaim latencies expressed as order-latency_in_ms uname-3942 9-200.179000000004 9-98.7900000000373 9-99.8330000001006 kswapd0-311 0-662.097999999998 0-2.79700000002049 \ 0-149.100000000035 0-3295.73600000003 0-9806.31799999997 0-35528.833 \ 0-10043.197 0-129740.979 0-3.50500000000466 0-3.54899999999907 \ 0-9297.78999999992 0-3.48499999998603 0-3596.97999999998 0-3.92799999995623 \ 0-3.35000000009313 0-16729.017 0-3.57799999997951 0-47435.0630000001 \ 0-3.7819999998901 0-5864.06999999995 0-18635.334 0-10541.289 9-186011.565 \ 9-3680.86300000001 9-1379.06499999994 9-958571.115 9-66215.474 \ 9-6721.14699999988 9-1962.15299999993 9-1094806.125 9-2267.83199999994 \ 9-47120.9029999999 9-427653.886 9-2.6359999999404 9-632.148999999976 \ 9-476.753000000026 9-495.577000000048 9-8.45900000003166 9-6.6820000000298 \ 9-1.30500000016764 9-251.746000000043 9-383.905000000028 9-80.1419999999925 \ 9-281.160000000149 9-14.8780000000261 9-381.45299999998 9-512.07799999998 \ 9-49.5519999999087 9-167.439000000013 9-183.820999999996 9-239.527999999933 \ 9-19.9479999998584 9-148.747999999905 9-164.583000000101 9-16.9480000000913 \ 9-192.376000000164 9-64.1010000000242 9-1.40800000005402 9-3.60800000000745 \ 9-17.1359999999404 9-4.69500000006519 9-2.06400000001304 9-1582488.554 \ 9-6244.19499999983 9-348153.812 9-2.0999999998603 9-0.987999999895692 \ 0-32218.473 0-1.6140000000596 0-1.28100000019185 0-1.41300000017509 \ 0-1.32299999985844 0-602.584000000032 0-1.34400000004098 0-1.6929999999702 \ 1-22101.8190000001 9-174876.724 9-16.2420000000857 9-175.165999999736 \ 9-15.8589999997057 9-0.604999999981374 9-3061.09000000032 9-479.277000000235 \ 9-1.54499999992549 9-771.985000000335 9-4.88700000010431 9-15.0649999999441 \ 9-0.879999999888241 9-252.01500000013 9-1381.03600000031 9-545.689999999944 \ 9-3438.0129999998 9-3343.70099999988 bench-stresshig-3942 9-7063.33900000004 9-129960.482 9-2062.27500000002 \ 9-3845.59399999992 9-171.82799999998 9-16493.821 9-7615.23900000006 \ 9-10217.848 9-983.138000000035 9-2698.39999999991 9-4016.1540000001 \ 9-5522.37700000009 9-21630.429 \ 9-15061.048 9-10327.953 9-542.69700000016 9-317.652000000002 \ 9-8554.71699999995 9-1786.61599999992 9-1899.31499999994 9-2093.41899999999 \ 9-4992.62400000007 9-942.648999999976 9-1923.98300000001 9-3.7980000001844 \ 9-5.99899999983609 9-0.912000000011176 9-1603.67700000014 9-1.98300000000745 \ 9-3.96500000008382 9-0.902999999932945 9-2802.72199999983 9-1078.24799999991 \ 9-2155.82900000014 9-10.058999999892 9-1984.723 9-1687.97999999998 \ 9-1136.05300000007 9-3183.61699999985 9-458.731000000145 9-6.48600000003353 \ 9-1013.25200000009 9-8415.22799999989 9-10065.584 9-2076.79600000009 \ 9-3792.65699999989 9-71.2010000001173 9-2560.96999999997 9-2260.68400000012 \ 9-2862.65799999982 9-1255.81500000018 9-15.7440000001807 9-4.33499999996275 \ 9-1446.63800000004 9-238.635000000009 9-60.1790000000037 9-4.38800000003539 \ 9-639.567000000039 9-306.698000000091 9-31.4070000001229 9-74.997999999905 \ 9-632.725999999791 9-1625.93200000003 9-931.266000000061 9-98.7749999999069 \ 9-984.606999999844 9-225.638999999966 9-421.316000000108 9-653.744999999879 \ 9-572.804000000004 9-769.158999999985 9-603.918000000063 9-4.28499999991618 \ 9-626.21399999992 9-1721.25 9-0.854999999981374 9-572.39599999995 \ 9-681.881999999983 9-1345.12599999993 9-363.666999999899 9-3823.31099999999 \ 9-2991.28200000012 9-4.27099999994971 9-309.76500000013 9-3068.35700000008 \ 9-788.25 9-3515.73999999999 9-2065.96100000013 9-286.719999999972 \ 9-316.076000000117 9-344.151000000071 9-2.51000000000931 9-306.688000000082 \ 9-1515.00099999993 9-336.528999999864 9-793.491999999853 9-457.348999999929 \ 9-13620.155 9-119.933999999892 9-35.0670000000391 9-918.266999999993 \ 9-828.569000000134 9-4863.81099999999 9-105.222000000067 9-894.23900000006 \ 9-110.964999999851 9-0.662999999942258 9-12753.3150000002 9-12.6129999998957 \ 9-13368.0899999999 9-12.4199999999255 9-1.00300000002608 9-1.41100000008009 \ 9-10300.5290000001 9-16.502000000095 9-30.7949999999255 9-6283.0140000002 \ 9-4320.53799999994 9-6826.27300000004 9-3.07299999985844 9-1497.26799999992 \ 9-13.4040000000969 9-3.12999999988824 9-3.86100000003353 9-11.3539999998175 \ 9-0.10799999977462 9-21.780999999959 9-209.695999999996 9-299.647000000114 \ 9-6.01699999999255 9-20.8349999999627 9-22.5470000000205 9-5470.16800000006 \ 9-7.60499999998137 9-0.821000000229105 9-1.56600000010803 9-14.1669999998994 \ 9-0.209000000031665 9-1.82300000009127 9-1.70000000018626 9-19.9429999999702 \ 9-124.266999999993 9-0.0389999998733401 9-6.71400000015274 9-16.7710000001825 \ 9-31.0409999999683 9-0.516999999992549 9-115.888000000035 9-5.19900000002235 \ 9-222.389999999898 9-11.2739999999758 9-80.9050000000279 9-8.14500000001863 \ 9-4.44599999999627 9-0.218999999808148 9-0.715000000083819 9-0.233000000007451 \ 9-48.2630000000354 9-248.560999999987 9-374.96800000011 9-644.179000000004 \ 9-0.835999999893829 9-79.0060000000522 9-128.447999999858 9-0.692000000039116 \ 9-5.26500000013039 9-128.449000000022 9-2.04799999995157 9-12.0990000001621 \ 9-8.39899999997579 9-10.3860000001732 9-11.9310000000987 9-53.4450000000652 \ 9-0.46999999997206 9-2.96299999998882 9-17.9699999999721 9-0.776000000070781 \ 9-25.2919999998994 9-33.1110000000335 9-0.434000000124797 9-0.641000000061467 \ 9-0.505000000121072 9-1.12800000002608 9-149.222000000067 9-1.17599999997765 \ 9-3247.33100000001 9-10.7439999999478 9-153.523000000045 9-1.38300000014715 \ 9-794.762000000104 9-3.36199999996461 9-128.765999999829 9-181.543999999994 \ 9-78149.8229999999 9-176.496999999974 9-89.9940000001807 9-9.12700000009499 \ 9-250.827000000048 9-0.224999999860302 9-0.388999999966472 9-1.16700000036508 \ 9-32.1740000001155 9-12.6800000001676 9-0.0720000001601875 9-0.274999999906868 \ 9-0.724000000394881 9-266.866000000387 9-45.5709999999963 9-4.54399999976158 \ 9-8.27199999988079 9-4.38099999958649 9-0.512000000104308 9-0.0640000002458692 \ 9-5.20000000018626 9-0.0839999997988343 9-12.816000000108 9-0.503000000026077 \ 9-0.507999999914318 9-6.23999999975786 9-3.35100000025705 9-18.8530000001192 \ 9-25.2220000000671 9-68.2309999996796 9-98.9939999999478 9-0.441000000108033 \ 9-4.24599999981001 9-261.702000000048 9-3.01599999982864 9-0.0749999997206032 \ 9-0.0370000000111759 9-4.375 9-3.21800000034273 9-11.3960000001825 \ 9-0.0540000000037253 9-0.286000000312924 9-0.865999999921769 \ 9-0.294999999925494 9-6.45999999996275 9-4.31099999975413 9-128.248999999836 \ 9-0.282999999821186 9-102.155000000261 9-0.0860000001266599 \ 9-0.0540000000037253 9-0.935000000055879 9-0.0670000002719462 \ 9-5.8640000000596 9-19.9860000000335 9-4.18699999991804 9-0.566000000108033 \ 9-2.55099999997765 9-0.702000000048429 9-131.653999999631 9-0.638999999966472 \ 9-14.3229999998584 9-183.398000000045 9-178.095999999903 9-3.22899999981746 \ 9-7.31399999978021 9-22.2400000002235 9-11.7979999999516 9-108.10599999968 \ 9-99.0159999998286 9-102.640999999829 9-38.414000000339 Process Direct Wokeup Pages Pages Pages details Rclms Kswapd Scanned Sync-IO ASync-IO cc1-30800 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-24260 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-24152 0 12 0 0 0 wakeup-0=12 cc1-8139 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-4390 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-4648 0 7 0 0 0 wakeup-0=7 cc1-4552 0 3 0 0 0 wakeup-0=3 dd-4550 0 31 0 0 0 wakeup-0=31 date-4898 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-6549 0 7 0 0 0 wakeup-0=7 as-22202 0 17 0 0 0 wakeup-0=17 cc1-6495 0 9 0 0 0 wakeup-0=9 cc1-8299 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-6009 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-2574 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-30568 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-2679 0 6 0 0 0 wakeup-0=6 sh-13747 0 12 0 0 0 wakeup-0=12 cc1-22193 0 18 0 0 0 wakeup-0=18 cc1-30725 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 as-4392 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-28180 0 14 0 0 0 wakeup-0=14 cc1-13697 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-22207 0 8 0 0 0 wakeup-0=8 cc1-15270 0 179 0 0 0 wakeup-0=179 cc1-22011 0 82 0 0 0 wakeup-0=82 cp-14682 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 as-11926 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-6016 0 5 0 0 0 wakeup-0=5 make-18554 0 13 0 0 0 wakeup-0=13 cc1-8292 0 12 0 0 0 wakeup-0=12 make-24381 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-1=1 date-18681 0 33 0 0 0 wakeup-0=33 cc1-32276 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 timestamp-outpu-2809 0 253 0 0 0 wakeup-0=240 wakeup-1=13 date-18624 0 7 0 0 0 wakeup-0=7 cc1-30960 0 9 0 0 0 wakeup-0=9 cc1-4014 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-30706 0 22 0 0 0 wakeup-0=22 uname-3942 4 1 306 0 17 direct-9=4 wakeup-9=1 cc1-28207 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-30563 0 9 0 0 0 wakeup-0=9 cc1-22214 0 10 0 0 0 wakeup-0=10 cc1-28221 0 11 0 0 0 wakeup-0=11 cc1-28123 0 6 0 0 0 wakeup-0=6 kswapd0-311 0 7 357302 0 34233 wakeup-0=7 cc1-5988 0 7 0 0 0 wakeup-0=7 as-30734 0 161 0 0 0 wakeup-0=161 cc1-22004 0 45 0 0 0 wakeup-0=45 date-4590 0 4 0 0 0 wakeup-0=4 cc1-15279 0 213 0 0 0 wakeup-0=213 date-30735 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-30583 0 4 0 0 0 wakeup-0=4 cc1-32324 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-23933 0 3 0 0 0 wakeup-0=3 cc1-22001 0 36 0 0 0 wakeup-0=36 bench-stresshig-3942 287 287 80186 6295 12196 direct-9=287 wakeup-9=287 cc1-28170 0 7 0 0 0 wakeup-0=7 date-7932 0 92 0 0 0 wakeup-0=92 cc1-22222 0 6 0 0 0 wakeup-0=6 cc1-32334 0 16 0 0 0 wakeup-0=16 cc1-2690 0 6 0 0 0 wakeup-0=6 cc1-30733 0 9 0 0 0 wakeup-0=9 cc1-32298 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-13743 0 18 0 0 0 wakeup-0=18 cc1-22186 0 4 0 0 0 wakeup-0=4 cc1-28214 0 11 0 0 0 wakeup-0=11 cc1-13735 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 updatedb-8173 0 18 0 0 0 wakeup-0=18 cc1-13750 0 3 0 0 0 wakeup-0=3 cat-2808 0 2 0 0 0 wakeup-0=2 cc1-15277 0 169 0 0 0 wakeup-0=169 date-18317 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 cc1-15274 0 197 0 0 0 wakeup-0=197 cc1-30732 0 1 0 0 0 wakeup-0=1 Kswapd Kswapd Order Pages Pages Pages Instance Wakeups Re-wakeup Scanned Sync-IO ASync-IO kswapd0-311 91 24 357302 0 34233 wake-0=31 wake-1=1 wake-9=59 rewake-0=10 rewake-1=1 rewake-9=13 Summary Direct reclaims: 291 Direct reclaim pages scanned: 437794 Direct reclaim write sync I/O: 6295 Direct reclaim write async I/O: 46446 Wake kswapd requests: 2152 Time stalled direct reclaim: 519.163009000002 ms Kswapd wakeups: 91 Kswapd pages scanned: 357302 Kswapd reclaim write sync I/O: 0 Kswapd reclaim write async I/O: 34233 Time kswapd awake: 5282.749757 ms Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, page-allocator: add a postprocessing script for ↵Mel Gorman1-0/+418
page-allocator-related ftrace events This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the page-allocator-related trace events. It can be used to give an indication of who the most allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone lock was taken during the tracing period. Example output looks like Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain swapper-0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Xorg-3770 10603 5952 3685 6978 5996 194 192 0 0 0 0 0 0 modprobe-21397 51 0 0 86 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 xchat-5370 228 93 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 awesome-4317 32 32 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 thinkfan-3863 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hald-addon-stor-3935 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 akregator-4506 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 xmms-14888 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 khelper-12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Optionally, the output can include information on the parent or aggregate based on process name instead of aggregating based on each pid. Example output including parent information and stripped out the PID looks something like; Process Pages Pages Pages Pages PCPU PCPU PCPU Fragment Fragment MigType Fragment Fragment Unknown details allocd allocd freed freed pages drains refills Fallback Causing Changed Severe Moderate under lock direct pagevec drain gdm-3756 :: Xorg-3770 3796 2976 99 3813 3224 104 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 init-1 :: hald-3892 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 git-21447 :: editor-21448 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 This says that Xorg allocated 3796 pages and it's parent process is gdm with a PID of 3756; The postprocessor parses the text output of tracing. While there is a binary format, the expectation is that the binary output can be readily translated into text and post-processed offline. Obviously if the text format changes, the parser will break but the regular expression parser is fairly rudimentary so should be readily adjustable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>