From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: [patch 105/131] mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:02:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20200603230237.xj0G5g-t7%akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20200603155549.e041363450869eaae4c7f05b@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:47816 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726567AbgFCXIk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:08:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200603155549.e041363450869eaae4c7f05b@linux-foundation.org> Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@suse.com, minchan@kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org From: Johannes Weiner Subject: mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset With the advent of fast random IO devices (SSDs, PMEM) and in-memory swap devices such as zswap, it's possible for swap to be much faster than filesystems, and for swapping to be preferable over thrashing filesystem caches. Allow setting swappiness - which defines the rough relative IO cost of cache misses between page cache and swap-backed pages - to reflect such situations by making the swap-preferred range configurable. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++----- kernel/sysctl.c | 3 +- mm/vmscan.c | 2 - 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst~mm-allow-swappiness-that-prefers-reclaiming-anon-over-the-file-workingset +++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -831,14 +831,27 @@ tooling to work, you can do:: swappiness ========== -This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap -memory pages. Higher values will increase aggressiveness, lower values -decrease the amount of swap. A value of 0 instructs the kernel not to -initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less -than the high water mark in a zone. +This control is used to define the rough relative IO cost of swapping +and filesystem paging, as a value between 0 and 200. At 100, the VM +assumes equal IO cost and will thus apply memory pressure to the page +cache and swap-backed pages equally; lower values signify more +expensive swap IO, higher values indicates cheaper. + +Keep in mind that filesystem IO patterns under memory pressure tend to +be more efficient than swap's random IO. An optimal value will require +experimentation and will also be workload-dependent. The default value is 60. +For in-memory swap, like zram or zswap, as well as hybrid setups that +have swap on faster devices than the filesystem, values beyond 100 can +be considered. For example, if the random IO against the swap device +is on average 2x faster than IO from the filesystem, swappiness should +be 133 (x + 2x = 200, 2x = 133.33). + +At 0, the kernel will not initiate swap until the amount of free and +file-backed pages is less than the high watermark in a zone. + unprivileged_userfaultfd ======================== --- a/kernel/sysctl.c~mm-allow-swappiness-that-prefers-reclaiming-anon-over-the-file-workingset +++ a/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ static unsigned long zero_ul; static unsigned long one_ul = 1; static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX; static int one_hundred = 100; +static int two_hundred = 200; static int one_thousand = 1000; #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK static int ten_thousand = 10000; @@ -1391,7 +1392,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax, .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, - .extra2 = &one_hundred, + .extra2 = &two_hundred, }, #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE { --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-allow-swappiness-that-prefers-reclaiming-anon-over-the-file-workingset +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ struct scan_control { #endif /* - * From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy. + * From 0 .. 200. Higher means more swappy. */ int vm_swappiness = 60; /* _