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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/28] xfs: Improve metadata buffer reclaim accountability
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:21:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104232110.GS4153244@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191031234618.15403-5-david@fromorbit.com>

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:45:54AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> The buffer cache shrinker frees more than just the xfs_buf slab
> objects - it also frees the pages attached to the buffers. Make sure
> the memory reclaim code accounts for this memory being freed
> correctly, similar to how the inode shrinker accounts for pages
> freed from the page cache due to mapping invalidation.
> 
> We also need to make sure that the mm subsystem knows these are
> reclaimable objects. We provide the memory reclaim subsystem with a
> a shrinker to reclaim xfs_bufs, so we should really mark the slab
> that way.
> 
> We also have a lot of xfs_bufs in a busy system, spread them around
> like we do inodes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
> index 1e63dd3d1257..d34e5d2edacd 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
> @@ -324,6 +324,9 @@ xfs_buf_free(
>  
>  			__free_page(page);
>  		}
> +		if (current->reclaim_state)
> +			current->reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab +=
> +							bp->b_page_count;
>  	} else if (bp->b_flags & _XBF_KMEM)
>  		kmem_free(bp->b_addr);
>  	_xfs_buf_free_pages(bp);
> @@ -2061,7 +2064,8 @@ int __init
>  xfs_buf_init(void)
>  {
>  	xfs_buf_zone = kmem_zone_init_flags(sizeof(xfs_buf_t), "xfs_buf",
> -						KM_ZONE_HWALIGN, NULL);
> +			KM_ZONE_HWALIGN | KM_ZONE_SPREAD | KM_ZONE_RECLAIM,

As discussed on the previous iteration of this series, I'd like to
capture the reasons for adding KM_ZONE_SPREAD as a separate patch.

--D

> +			NULL);
>  	if (!xfs_buf_zone)
>  		goto out;
>  
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc0
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-31 23:45 [PATCH 00/28] mm, xfs: non-blocking inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 01/28] xfs: Lower CIL flush limit for large logs Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 02/28] xfs: Throttle commits on delayed background CIL push Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:04   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-01 21:40     ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 22:48       ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 03/28] xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 04/28] xfs: Improve metadata buffer reclaim accountability Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:05   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-04 23:21   ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 05/28] xfs: correctly acount for reclaimable slabs Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 06/28] xfs: factor common AIL item deletion code Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 23:16   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 07/28] xfs: tail updates only need to occur when LSN changes Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 23:18   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 08/28] xfs: factor inode lookup from xfs_ifree_cluster Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:05   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-04 23:20   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 09/28] mm: directed shrinker work deferral Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:25   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 20:49     ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 17:21       ` Brian Foster
2019-11-18  0:49         ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-19 15:12           ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 10/28] shrinkers: use defer_work for GFP_NOFS sensitive shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 11/28] mm: factor shrinker work calculations Dave Chinner
2019-11-02 10:55   ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-04 15:29   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 20:59     ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 12/28] shrinker: defer work only to kswapd Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:29   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:11     ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 17:23       ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 13/28] shrinker: clean up variable types and tracepoints Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:30   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 14/28] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 15/28] mm: back off direct reclaim on excessive shrinker deferral Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:28     ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 16/28] mm: kswapd backoff for shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:41     ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 17/28] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 18/28] xfs: don't block kswapd in inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 19/28] xfs: reduce kswapd blocking on inode locking Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 20/28] xfs: kill background reclaim work Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 21/28] xfs: use AIL pushing for inode reclaim IO Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:06   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 22/28] xfs: remove mode from xfs_reclaim_inodes() Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 23/28] xfs: track reclaimable inodes using a LRU list Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 24/28] xfs: reclaim inodes from the LRU Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:21   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:51     ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 25/28] xfs: remove unusued old inode reclaim code Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:21   ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 26/28] xfs: use xfs_ail_push_all in xfs_reclaim_inodes Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:22   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:53     ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 27/28] rwsem: introduce down/up_write_non_owner Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 28/28] xfs: rework unreferenced inode lookups Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 22:18   ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 22:16     ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 13:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-15 17:26       ` Brian Foster
2019-11-18  1:00         ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-19 15:13           ` Brian Foster
2019-11-19 21:18             ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-20 12:42               ` Brian Foster

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