Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] mm: Split move_pages_to_lru into 3 separate passes

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>]

在 2020/8/19 下午12:27, Alexander Duyck 写道:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The current code for move_pages_to_lru is meant to release the LRU lock
> every time it encounters an unevictable page or a compound page that must
> be freed. This results in a fair amount of code bulk because the lruvec has
> to be reacquired every time the lock is released and reacquired.
> 
> Instead of doing this I believe we can break the code up into 3 passes. The
> first pass will identify the pages we can move to LRU and move those. In
> addition it will sort the list out leaving the unevictable pages in the
> list and moving those pages that have dropped to a reference count of 0 to
> pages_to_free. The second pass will return the unevictable pages to the
> LRU. The final pass will free any compound pages we have in the
> pages_to_free list before we merge it back with the original list and
> return from the function.
> 
> The advantage of doing it this way is that we only have to release the lock
> between pass 1 and 2, and then we reacquire the lock after pass 3 after we
> merge the pages_to_free back into the original list. As such we only have
> to release the lock at most once in an entire call instead of having to
> test to see if we need to relock with each page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 3ebe3f9b653b..6a2bdbc1a9eb 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1850,22 +1850,21 @@ static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  {
>  	int nr_pages, nr_moved = 0;
>  	LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free);
> -	struct page *page;
> -	struct lruvec *orig_lruvec = lruvec;
> +	struct page *page, *next;
>  	enum lru_list lru;
>  
> -	while (!list_empty(list)) {
> -		page = lru_to_page(list);
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) {
>  		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
> -		list_del(&page->lru);
> -		if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page))) {
> -			if (lruvec) {
> -				spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> -				lruvec = NULL;
> -			}
> -			putback_lru_page(page);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * if page is unevictable leave it on the list to be returned
> +		 * to the LRU after we have finished processing the other
> +		 * entries in the list.
> +		 */
> +		if (unlikely(!page_evictable(page)))
>  			continue;
> -		}
> +
> +		list_del(&page->lru);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * The SetPageLRU needs to be kept here for list intergrity.
> @@ -1878,20 +1877,14 @@ static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  		 *     list_add(&page->lru,)
>  		 *                                        list_add(&page->lru,)
>  		 */
> -		lruvec = relock_page_lruvec_irq(page, lruvec);

It's actually changed the meaning from current func. which I had seen a bug if no relock.
but after move to 5.9 kernel, I can not reprodce the bug any more. I am not sure if 5.9 fixed 
the problem, and we don't need relock here. 

For the rest of this patch. 
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>


>  		SetPageLRU(page);
>  
>  		if (unlikely(put_page_testzero(page))) {
>  			__ClearPageLRU(page);
>  			__ClearPageActive(page);
>  
> -			if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
> -				spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> -				lruvec = NULL;
> -				destroy_compound_page(page);
> -			} else
> -				list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
> -
> +			/* defer freeing until we can release lru_lock */
> +			list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  
> @@ -1904,16 +1897,33 @@ static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  		if (PageActive(page))
>  			workingset_age_nonresident(lruvec, nr_pages);
>  	}
> -	if (orig_lruvec != lruvec) {
> -		if (lruvec)
> -			spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> -		spin_lock_irq(&orig_lruvec->lru_lock);
> -	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * To save our caller's stack, now use input list for pages to free.
> -	 */
> -	list_splice(&pages_to_free, list);
> +	if (unlikely(!list_empty(list) || !list_empty(&pages_to_free))) {
> +		spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> +
> +		/* return any unevictable pages to the LRU list */
> +		while (!list_empty(list)) {
> +			page = lru_to_page(list);
> +			list_del(&page->lru);
> +			putback_lru_page(page);
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * To save our caller's stack use input
> +		 * list for pages to free.
> +		 */
> +		list_splice(&pages_to_free, list);
> +
> +		/* free any compound pages we have in the list */
> +		list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) {
> +			if (likely(!PageCompound(page)))
> +				continue;
> +			list_del(&page->lru);
> +			destroy_compound_page(page);
> +		}
> +
> +		spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> +	}
>  
>  	return nr_moved;
>  }
>