mm/mglru: try to stop at high watermarks
authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Fri, 8 Dec 2023 06:14:05 +0000 (23:14 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:02:02 +0000 (17:02 +0100)
commitc5f67b7e847490d41219f1dfe1b1610e88a997e4
tree2f8d1dd3232428f839ced6450a2319cdefc15eaf
parentb2ce691b452f2731bd7d30c5b05333bf2ae97a0d
mm/mglru: try to stop at high watermarks

commit 5095a2b23987d3c3c47dd16b3d4080e2733b8bb9 upstream.

The initial MGLRU patchset didn't include the memcg LRU support, and it
relied on should_abort_scan(), added by commit f76c83378851 ("mm:
multi-gen LRU: optimize multiple memcgs"), to "backoff to avoid
overshooting their aggregate reclaim target by too much".

Later on when the memcg LRU was added, should_abort_scan() was deemed
unnecessary, and the test results [1] showed no side effects after it was
removed by commit a579086c99ed ("mm: multi-gen LRU: remove eviction
fairness safeguard").

However, that test used memory.reclaim, which sets nr_to_reclaim to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX.  So it can overshoot only by SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX-1 pages,
i.e., from nr_reclaimed=nr_to_reclaim-1 to
nr_reclaimed=nr_to_reclaim+SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX-1.  Compared with the batch
size kswapd sets to nr_to_reclaim, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX is tiny.  Therefore
that test isn't able to reproduce the worst case scenario, i.e., kswapd
overshooting GBs on large systems and "consuming 100% CPU" (see the Closes
tag).

Bring back a simplified version of should_abort_scan() on top of the memcg
LRU, so that kswapd stops when all eligible zones are above their
respective high watermarks plus a small delta to lower the chance of
KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY.  Note that this only applies to order-0
reclaim, meaning compaction-induced reclaim can still run wild (which is a
different problem).

On Android, launching 55 apps sequentially:
           Before     After      Change
  pgpgin   838377172  802955040  -4%
  pgpgout  38037080   34336300   -10%

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20221222041905.2431096-1-yuzhao@google.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231208061407.2125867-2-yuzhao@google.com
Fixes: a579086c99ed ("mm: multi-gen LRU: remove eviction fairness safeguard")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Reported-by: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAK8fFZ4DY+GtBA40Pm7Nn5xCHy+51w3sfxPqkqpqakSXYyX+Wg@mail.gmail.com/
Tested-by: Jaroslav Pulchart <jaroslav.pulchart@gooddata.com>
Tested-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c