From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 23/27] mm, vmscan: Account in vmstat for pages skipped during reclaim
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:20:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160223152019.GI2854@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456239890-20737-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Low reclaim efficiency occurs when many pages are scanned that cannot
be reclaimed. This occurs for example when pages are dirty or under
writeback. Node-based LRU reclaim introduces a new source as reclaim
for allocation requests requiring lower zones will skip pages belonging
to higher zones. This patch adds vmstat counters to count pages that
were skipped because the calling context could not use pages from that
zone. It will help distinguish one source of low reclaim efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 +
mm/vmscan.c | 1 +
mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index 8dcb5a813163..cadaa0f05f67 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
PGFREE, PGACTIVATE, PGDEACTIVATE,
PGFAULT, PGMAJFAULT,
PGLAZYFREED,
+ FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_SKIP),
PGREFILL,
PGSTEAL_KSWAPD,
PGSTEAL_DIRECT,
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e92765eb0a1e..a5302b86c032 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1386,6 +1386,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
if (page_zonenum(page) > sc->reclaim_idx) {
list_move(&page->lru, &pages_skipped);
+ __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_SKIP, page_zone(page), 1);
continue;
}
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 8562ebe2d311..4d8617b02032 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1007,6 +1007,8 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
"pgmajfault",
"pglazyfreed",
+ TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgskip")
+
"pgrefill",
"pgsteal_kswapd",
"pgsteal_direct",
--
2.6.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 15:04 [RFC PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v2 Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 01/27] mm, page_alloc: Use ac->classzone_idx instead of zone_idx(preferred_zone) Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:04 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-03-03 10:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 02/27] mm, vmscan: Check if cpusets are enabled during direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:06 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-03-03 11:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-09 11:59 ` Mel Gorman
2016-03-09 12:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 03/27] mm, vmstat: Add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-24 9:19 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Move lru_lock to the node Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:40 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 05/27] mm, vmscan: Move LRU lists to node Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 18:57 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 19:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-24 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 07/27] mm, vmscan: Have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone Mel Gorman
2016-02-25 22:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 08/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 16:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-03-03 13:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-03-09 14:45 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 09/27] mm, vmscan: Simplify the logic deciding whether kswapd sleeps Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 16:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 10/27] mm, vmscan: By default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 16:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 11/27] mm, vmscan: Clear congestion, dirty and need for compaction on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 12/27] mm: vmscan: Do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 13/27] mm, vmscan: Make shrink_node decisions more node-centric Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 14/27] mm, memcg: Move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:04 ` [PATCH 15/27] mm, workingset: Make working set detection node-aware Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 16:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:17 ` [PATCH 16/27] mm, page_alloc: Consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-02-28 16:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 15:18 ` [PATCH 17/27] mm: Move page mapped accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:18 ` [PATCH 18/27] mm: Rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:18 ` [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move most file-based accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 20/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write " Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 21/27] mm, vmscan: Update classzone_idx if buffer_heads_over_limit Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:19 ` [PATCH 22/27] mm, vmscan: Only wakeup kswapd once per node for the requested classzone Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:20 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2016-02-23 15:20 ` [PATCH 24/27] mm: Convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:20 ` [PATCH 25/27] mm, vmscan: Add classzone information to tracepoints Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:21 ` [PATCH 26/27] mm, page_alloc: Remove fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 15:21 ` [PATCH 27/27] mm: page_alloc: Cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 17:15 ` [RFC PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v2 Christoph Lameter
2016-02-23 20:04 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 20:19 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-23 20:59 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23 21:58 ` Mel Gorman
2016-02-24 0:12 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-24 10:46 ` Mel Gorman
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