khugepaged: drain all LRU caches before scanning pages
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 3 Jun 2020 23:00:12 +0000 (16:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 03:09:46 +0000 (20:09 -0700)
commita980df33e9351e5474c06ec0fd96b2f409e2ff22
treec902f4e3a65408f225a32aa86dea12120505d318
parentffe945e633b527d5a4577b42cbadec3c7cbcf096
khugepaged: drain all LRU caches before scanning pages

Having a page in LRU add cache offsets page refcount and gives
false-negative on PageLRU().  It reduces collapse success rate.

Drain all LRU add caches before scanning.  It happens relatively rare and
should not disturb the system too much.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416160026.16538-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/khugepaged.c