From 1332a809d95a4fc763cabe5ecb6d4fb6a6d941b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yu Zhao Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 02:00:08 -0600 Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: thrashing prevention MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as requested by many desktop users [1]. When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds from getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered if this working set cannot be kept in memory. Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms), N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing. Larger values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM kills. Compared with the size-based approach [2], this time-based approach has the following advantages: 1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications and memory sizes. 2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ydza%2FzXKY9ATRoh6@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20101028191523.GA14972@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-12-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Acked-by: Brian Geffon Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Acked-by: Steven Barrett Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal Tested-by: Daniel Byrne Tested-by: Donald Carr Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov Tested-by: Shuang Zhai Tested-by: Sofia Trinh Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Barry Song Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michael Larabel Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 95c58c7fbdff..87347945270b 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -422,6 +422,8 @@ struct lru_gen_struct { unsigned long max_seq; /* the eviction increments the oldest generation numbers */ unsigned long min_seq[ANON_AND_FILE]; + /* the birth time of each generation in jiffies */ + unsigned long timestamps[MAX_NR_GENS]; /* the multi-gen LRU lists, lazily sorted on eviction */ struct list_head lists[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES]; /* the multi-gen LRU sizes, eventually consistent */ -- cgit v1.2.3