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Hugh Dickins 9fab5619bd shmem: writepage directly to swap 
Synopsis: if shmem_writepage calls swap_writepage directly, most shmem
swap loads benefit, and a catastrophic interaction between SLUB and some
flash storage is avoided.

shmem_writepage() has always been peculiar in making no attempt to write:
it has just transferred a shmem page from file cache to swap cache, then
let that page make its way around the LRU again before being written and
freed.

The idea was that people use tmpfs because they want those pages to stay
in RAM; so although we give it an overflow to swap, we should resist
writing too soon, giving those pages a second chance before they can be
reclaimed.

That was always questionable, and I've toyed with this patch for years;
but never had a clear justification to depart from the original design.

It became more questionable in 2.6.28, when the split LRU patches classed
shmem and tmpfs pages as SwapBacked rather than as file_cache: that in
itself gives them more resistance to reclaim than normal file pages.  I
prepared this patch for 2.6.29, but the merge window arrived before I'd
completed gathering statistics to justify sending it in.

Then while comparing SLQB against SLUB, running SLUB on a laptop I'd
habitually used with SLAB, I found SLUB to run my tmpfs kbuild swapping
tests five times slower than SLAB or SLQB - other machines slower too, but
nowhere near so bad.  Simpler "cp -a" swapping tests showed the same.

slub_max_order=0 brings sanity to all, but heavy swapping is too far from
normal to justify such a tuning.  The crucial factor on that laptop turns
out to be that I'm using an SD card for swap.  What happens is this:

By default, SLUB uses order-2 pages for shmem_inode_cache (and many other
fs inodes), so creating tmpfs files under memory pressure brings lumpy
reclaim into play.  One subpage of the order is chosen from the bottom of
the LRU as usual, then the other three picked out from their random
positions on the LRUs.

In a tmpfs load, many of these pages will be ones which already passed
through shmem_writepage, so already have swap allocated.  And though their
offsets on swap were probably allocated sequentially, now that the pages
are picked off at random, their swap offsets are scattered.

But the flash storage on the SD card is very sensitive to having its
writes merged: once swap is written at scattered offsets, performance
falls apart.  Rotating disk seeks increase too, but less disastrously.

So: stop giving shmem/tmpfs pages a second pass around the LRU, write them
out to swap as soon as their swap has been allocated.

It's surely possible to devise an artificial load which runs faster the
old way, one whose sizing is such that the tmpfs pages on their second
pass are the ones that are wanted again, and other pages not.

But I've not yet found such a load: on all machines, under the loads I've
tried, immediate swap_writepage speeds up shmem swapping: especially when
using the SLUB allocator (and more effectively than slub_max_order=0), but
also with the others; and it also reduces the variance between runs.  How
much faster varies widely: a factor of five is rare, 5% is common.

One load which might have suffered: imagine a swapping shmem load in a
limited mem_cgroup on a machine with plenty of memory.  Before 2.6.29 the
swapcache was not charged, and such a load would have run quickest with
the shmem swapcache never written to swap.  But now swapcache is charged,
so even this load benefits from shmem_writepage directly to swap.

Apologies for the #ifndef CONFIG_SWAP swap_writepage() stub in swap.h:
it's silly because that will never get called; but refactoring shmem.c
sensibly according to CONFIG_SWAP will be a separate task.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:15 -07:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_SWAP_H
#define _LINUX_SWAP_H
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/mmzone.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/node.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
struct notifier_block;
struct bio;
#define SWAP_FLAG_PREFER 0x8000 /* set if swap priority specified */
#define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK 0x7fff
#define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_SHIFT 0
static inline int current_is_kswapd(void)
{
return current->flags & PF_KSWAPD;
}
/*
* MAX_SWAPFILES defines the maximum number of swaptypes: things which can
* be swapped to. The swap type and the offset into that swap type are
* encoded into pte's and into pgoff_t's in the swapcache. Using five bits
* for the type means that the maximum number of swapcache pages is 27 bits
* on 32-bit-pgoff_t architectures. And that assumes that the architecture packs
* the type/offset into the pte as 5/27 as well.
*/
#define MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT 5
#ifndef CONFIG_MIGRATION
#define MAX_SWAPFILES (1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT)
#else
/* Use last two entries for page migration swap entries */
#define MAX_SWAPFILES ((1 << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT)-2)
#define SWP_MIGRATION_READ MAX_SWAPFILES
#define SWP_MIGRATION_WRITE (MAX_SWAPFILES + 1)
#endif
/*
* Magic header for a swap area. The first part of the union is
* what the swap magic looks like for the old (limited to 128MB)
* swap area format, the second part of the union adds - in the
* old reserved area - some extra information. Note that the first
* kilobyte is reserved for boot loader or disk label stuff...
*
* Having the magic at the end of the PAGE_SIZE makes detecting swap
* areas somewhat tricky on machines that support multiple page sizes.
* For 2.5 we'll probably want to move the magic to just beyond the
* bootbits...
*/
union swap_header {
struct {
char reserved[PAGE_SIZE - 10];
char magic[10]; /* SWAP-SPACE or SWAPSPACE2 */
} magic;
struct {
char bootbits[1024]; /* Space for disklabel etc. */
__u32 version;
__u32 last_page;
__u32 nr_badpages;
unsigned char sws_uuid[16];
unsigned char sws_volume[16];
__u32 padding[117];
__u32 badpages[1];
} info;
};
/* A swap entry has to fit into a "unsigned long", as
* the entry is hidden in the "index" field of the
* swapper address space.
*/
typedef struct {
unsigned long val;
} swp_entry_t;
/*
* current->reclaim_state points to one of these when a task is running
* memory reclaim
*/
struct reclaim_state {
unsigned long reclaimed_slab;
};
#ifdef __KERNEL__
struct address_space;
struct sysinfo;
struct writeback_control;
struct zone;
/*
* A swap extent maps a range of a swapfile's PAGE_SIZE pages onto a range of
* disk blocks. A list of swap extents maps the entire swapfile. (Where the
* term `swapfile' refers to either a blockdevice or an IS_REG file. Apart
* from setup, they're handled identically.
*
* We always assume that blocks are of size PAGE_SIZE.
*/
struct swap_extent {
struct list_head list;
pgoff_t start_page;
pgoff_t nr_pages;
sector_t start_block;
};
/*
* Max bad pages in the new format..
*/
#define __swapoffset(x) ((unsigned long)&((union swap_header *)0)->x)
#define MAX_SWAP_BADPAGES \
((__swapoffset(magic.magic) - __swapoffset(info.badpages)) / sizeof(int))
enum {
SWP_USED = (1 << 0), /* is slot in swap_info[] used? */
SWP_WRITEOK = (1 << 1), /* ok to write to this swap? */
SWP_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 2), /* blkdev supports discard */
SWP_DISCARDING = (1 << 3), /* now discarding a free cluster */
SWP_SOLIDSTATE = (1 << 4), /* blkdev seeks are cheap */
/* add others here before... */
SWP_SCANNING = (1 << 8), /* refcount in scan_swap_map */
};
#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32
#define SWAP_MAP_MAX 0x7fff
#define SWAP_MAP_BAD 0x8000
/*
* The in-memory structure used to track swap areas.
*/
struct swap_info_struct {
unsigned long flags;
int prio; /* swap priority */
int next; /* next entry on swap list */
struct file *swap_file;
struct block_device *bdev;
struct list_head extent_list;
struct swap_extent *curr_swap_extent;
unsigned short *swap_map;
unsigned int lowest_bit;
unsigned int highest_bit;
unsigned int lowest_alloc; /* while preparing discard cluster */
unsigned int highest_alloc; /* while preparing discard cluster */
unsigned int cluster_next;
unsigned int cluster_nr;
unsigned int pages;
unsigned int max;
unsigned int inuse_pages;
unsigned int old_block_size;
};
struct swap_list_t {
int head; /* head of priority-ordered swapfile list */
int next; /* swapfile to be used next */
};
/* Swap 50% full? Release swapcache more aggressively.. */
#define vm_swap_full() (nr_swap_pages*2 < total_swap_pages)
/* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */
extern unsigned long totalram_pages;
extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
extern unsigned int nr_free_buffer_pages(void);
extern unsigned int nr_free_pagecache_pages(void);
/* Definition of global_page_state not available yet */
#define nr_free_pages() global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES)
/* linux/mm/swap.c */
extern void __lru_cache_add(struct page *, enum lru_list lru);
extern void lru_cache_add_lru(struct page *, enum lru_list lru);
extern void activate_page(struct page *);
extern void mark_page_accessed(struct page *);
extern void lru_add_drain(void);
extern int lru_add_drain_all(void);
extern void rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page);
extern void swap_setup(void);
extern void add_page_to_unevictable_list(struct page *page);
/**
* lru_cache_add: add a page to the page lists
* @page: the page to add
*/
static inline void lru_cache_add_anon(struct page *page)
{
__lru_cache_add(page, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
}
static inline void lru_cache_add_active_anon(struct page *page)
{
__lru_cache_add(page, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
}
static inline void lru_cache_add_file(struct page *page)
{
__lru_cache_add(page, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
}
static inline void lru_cache_add_active_file(struct page *page)
{
__lru_cache_add(page, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
}
/* linux/mm/vmscan.c */
extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask);
extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
unsigned int swappiness);
extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
extern int vm_swappiness;
extern int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
extern long vm_total_pages;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern int zone_reclaim_mode;
extern int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio;
extern int sysctl_min_slab_ratio;
extern int zone_reclaim(struct zone *, gfp_t, unsigned int);
#else
#define zone_reclaim_mode 0
static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order)
{
return 0;
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
extern int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
extern void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *);
extern unsigned long scan_unevictable_pages;
extern int scan_unevictable_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
extern int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node);
extern void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node);
#else
static inline int page_evictable(struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
return 1;
}
static inline void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
{
}
static inline int scan_unevictable_register_node(struct node *node)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node) { }
#endif
extern int kswapd_run(int nid);
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
/* linux/mm/shmem.c */
extern int shmem_unuse(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page);
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
extern void swap_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *, struct page *);
#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
/* linux/mm/page_io.c */
extern int swap_readpage(struct file *, struct page *);
extern int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
extern void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio, int err);
/* linux/mm/swap_state.c */
extern struct address_space swapper_space;
#define total_swapcache_pages swapper_space.nrpages
extern void show_swap_cache_info(void);
extern int add_to_swap(struct page *);
extern int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *, swp_entry_t, gfp_t);
extern void __delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *);
extern void free_pages_and_swap_cache(struct page **, int);
extern struct page *lookup_swap_cache(swp_entry_t);
extern struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t, gfp_t,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
extern struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t, gfp_t,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
/* linux/mm/swapfile.c */
extern long nr_swap_pages;
extern long total_swap_pages;
extern void si_swapinfo(struct sysinfo *);
extern swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void);
extern swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int);
extern int swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t);
extern int valid_swaphandles(swp_entry_t, unsigned long *);
extern void swap_free(swp_entry_t);
extern int free_swap_and_cache(swp_entry_t);
extern int swap_type_of(dev_t, sector_t, struct block_device **);
extern unsigned int count_swap_pages(int, int);
extern sector_t map_swap_page(struct swap_info_struct *, pgoff_t);
extern sector_t swapdev_block(int, pgoff_t);
extern struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_info_struct(unsigned);
extern int reuse_swap_page(struct page *);
extern int try_to_free_swap(struct page *);
struct backing_dev_info;
/* linux/mm/thrash.c */
extern struct mm_struct * swap_token_mm;
extern void grab_swap_token(void);
extern void __put_swap_token(struct mm_struct *);
static inline int has_swap_token(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return (mm == swap_token_mm);
}
static inline void put_swap_token(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
if (has_swap_token(mm))
__put_swap_token(mm);
}
static inline void disable_swap_token(void)
{
put_swap_token(swap_token_mm);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent);
#else
static inline void
mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent)
{
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent);
#else
static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent)
{
}
#endif
#else /* CONFIG_SWAP */
#define nr_swap_pages 0L
#define total_swap_pages 0L
#define total_swapcache_pages 0UL
#define si_swapinfo(val) \
do { (val)->freeswap = (val)->totalswap = 0; } while (0)
/* only sparc can not include linux/pagemap.h in this file
* so leave page_cache_release and release_pages undeclared... */
#define free_page_and_swap_cache(page) \
page_cache_release(page)
#define free_pages_and_swap_cache(pages, nr) \
release_pages((pages), (nr), 0);
static inline void show_swap_cache_info(void)
{
}
#define free_swap_and_cache(swp) is_migration_entry(swp)
#define swap_duplicate(swp) is_migration_entry(swp)
static inline void swap_free(swp_entry_t swp)
{
}
static inline struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t swp, gfp_t gfp_mask,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
{
return NULL;
}
static inline int swap_writepage(struct page *p, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
return 0;
}
static inline struct page *lookup_swap_cache(swp_entry_t swp)
{
return NULL;
}
static inline int add_to_swap(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
static inline int add_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
return -1;
}
static inline void __delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *page)
{
}
static inline void delete_from_swap_cache(struct page *page)
{
}
#define reuse_swap_page(page) (page_mapcount(page) == 1)
static inline int try_to_free_swap(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
static inline swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void)
{
swp_entry_t entry;
entry.val = 0;
return entry;
}
/* linux/mm/thrash.c */
#define put_swap_token(x) do { } while(0)
#define grab_swap_token() do { } while(0)
#define has_swap_token(x) 0
#define disable_swap_token() do { } while(0)
static inline int mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t mask, bool locked)
{
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
#endif /* __KERNEL__*/
#endif /* _LINUX_SWAP_H */
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