On Mon, 20 Jul 2020, Alex Shi wrote:
> 在 2020/7/19 下午11:23, Hugh Dickins 写道:
> > I noticed that 5.8-rc5, with lrulock v16 applied, took significantly
> > longer to run loads than without it applied, when there should have been
> > only slight differences in system time. Comparing /proc/vmstat, something
> > that stood out was "pgrotated 0" for the patched kernels, which led here:
> > 
> > If pagevec_lru_move_fn() is now to TestClearPageLRU (I have still not
> > decided whether that's good or not, but assume here that it is good),
> > then functions called though it must be changed not to expect PageLRU!
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> 
> Good catch!
> 
> Thanks a lot, Hugh! 
> except 6 changes should apply, looks we add one more in swap.c file to stop
> !PageRLU further actions!

Agreed, that's a minor optimization that wasn't done before,
that can be added (but it's not a fix like the rest of them).

> 
> Many Thanks!
> Alex
> 
> @@ -649,7 +647,7 @@ void deactivate_file_page(struct page *page)
>          * In a workload with many unevictable page such as mprotect,
>          * unevictable page deactivation for accelerating reclaim is pointless.
>          */
> -       if (PageUnevictable(page))
> +       if (PageUnevictable(page) || !PageLRU(page))
>                 return;
> 
>         if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {