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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:16:50 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20220614071650.206064-1-yuzhao@google.com> Message-Id: <20220614071650.206064-14-yuzhao@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <20220614071650.206064-1-yuzhao@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d-goog Subject: [PATCH v12 13/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: admin guide From: Yu Zhao To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , Aneesh Kumar , Catalin Marinas , Dave Hansen , Hillf Danton , Jens Axboe , Johannes Weiner , Jonathan Corbet , Linus Torvalds , Matthew Wilcox , Mel Gorman , Michael Larabel , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Peter Zijlstra , Tejun Heo , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, page-reclaim@google.com, Yu Zhao , Brian Geffon , Jan Alexander Steffens , Oleksandr Natalenko , Steven Barrett , Suleiman Souhlal , Daniel Byrne , Donald Carr , " =?utf-8?q?Holger_Hoffst=C3=A4tte?= " , Konstantin Kharlamov , Shuang Zhai , Sofia Trinh , Vaibhav Jain X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20220614_081747_790120_D024DD9E X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 23.61 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Add an admin guide. Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao Acked-by: Brian Geffon Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Acked-by: Steven Barrett Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal Tested-by: Daniel Byrne Tested-by: Donald Carr Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov Tested-by: Shuang Zhai Tested-by: Sofia Trinh Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst | 156 ++++++++++++++++++ mm/Kconfig | 3 +- mm/vmscan.c | 4 + 4 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index c21b5823f126..2cf5bae62036 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ the Linux memory management. idle_page_tracking ksm memory-hotplug + multigen_lru nommu-mmap numa_memory_policy numaperf diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6355f2b5019d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============= +Multi-Gen LRU +============= +The multi-gen LRU is an alternative LRU implementation that optimizes +page reclaim and improves performance under memory pressure. Page +reclaim decides the kernel's caching policy and ability to overcommit +memory. It directly impacts the kswapd CPU usage and RAM efficiency. + +Quick start +=========== +Build the kernel with the following configurations. + +* ``CONFIG_LRU_GEN=y`` +* ``CONFIG_LRU_GEN_ENABLED=y`` + +All set! + +Runtime options +=============== +``/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/`` contains stable ABIs described in the +following subsections. + +Kill switch +----------- +``enabled`` accepts different values to enable or disable the +following components. Its default value depends on +``CONFIG_LRU_GEN_ENABLED``. All the components should be enabled +unless some of them have unforeseen side effects. Writing to +``enabled`` has no effect when a component is not supported by the +hardware, and valid values will be accepted even when the main switch +is off. + +====== =============================================================== +Values Components +====== =============================================================== +0x0001 The main switch for the multi-gen LRU. +0x0002 Clearing the accessed bit in leaf page table entries in large + batches, when MMU sets it (e.g., on x86). This behavior can + theoretically worsen lock contention (mmap_lock). If it is + disabled, the multi-gen LRU will suffer a minor performance + degradation for workloads that contiguously map hot pages, + whose accessed bits can be otherwise cleared by fewer larger + batches. +0x0004 Clearing the accessed bit in non-leaf page table entries as + well, when MMU sets it (e.g., on x86). This behavior was not + verified on x86 varieties other than Intel and AMD. If it is + disabled, the multi-gen LRU will suffer a negligible + performance degradation. +[yYnN] Apply to all the components above. +====== =============================================================== + +E.g., +:: + + echo y >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled + cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled + 0x0007 + echo 5 >/sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled + cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled + 0x0005 + +Thrashing prevention +-------------------- +Personal computers are more sensitive to thrashing because it can +cause janks (lags when rendering UI) and negatively impact user +experience. The multi-gen LRU offers thrashing prevention to the +majority of laptop and desktop users who do not have ``oomd``. + +Users can write ``N`` to ``min_ttl_ms`` to prevent the working set of +``N`` milliseconds from getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered +if this working set cannot be kept in memory. In other words, this +option works as an adjustable pressure relief valve, and when open, it +terminates applications that are hopefully not being used. + +Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms), ``N=1000`` usually +eliminates intolerable janks due to thrashing. Larger values like +``N=3000`` make janks less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM +kills. + +The default value ``0`` means disabled. + +Experimental features +===================== +``/sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen`` accepts commands described in the +following subsections. Multiple command lines are supported, so does +concatenation with delimiters ``,`` and ``;``. + +``/sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen_full`` provides additional stats for +debugging. ``CONFIG_LRU_GEN_STATS=y`` keeps historical stats from +evicted generations in this file. + +Working set estimation +---------------------- +Working set estimation measures how much memory an application needs +in a given time interval, and it is usually done with little impact on +the performance of the application. E.g., data centers want to +optimize job scheduling (bin packing) to improve memory utilizations. +When a new job comes in, the job scheduler needs to find out whether +each server it manages can allocate a certain amount of memory for +this new job before it can pick a candidate. To do so, the job +scheduler needs to estimate the working sets of the existing jobs. + +When it is read, ``lru_gen`` returns a histogram of numbers of pages +accessed over different time intervals for each memcg and node. +``MAX_NR_GENS`` decides the number of bins for each histogram. The +histograms are noncumulative. +:: + + memcg memcg_id memcg_path + node node_id + min_gen_nr age_in_ms nr_anon_pages nr_file_pages + ... + max_gen_nr age_in_ms nr_anon_pages nr_file_pages + +Each bin contains an estimated number of pages that have been accessed +within ``age_in_ms``. E.g., ``min_gen_nr`` contains the coldest pages +and ``max_gen_nr`` contains the hottest pages, since ``age_in_ms`` of +the former is the largest and that of the latter is the smallest. + +Users can write ``+ memcg_id node_id max_gen_nr +[can_swap [force_scan]]`` to ``lru_gen`` to create a new generation +``max_gen_nr+1``. ``can_swap`` defaults to the swap setting and, if it +is set to ``1``, it forces the scan of anon pages when swap is off, +and vice versa. ``force_scan`` defaults to ``1`` and, if it is set to +``0``, it employs heuristics to reduce the overhead, which is likely +to reduce the coverage as well. + +A typical use case is that a job scheduler writes to ``lru_gen`` at a +certain time interval to create new generations, and it ranks the +servers it manages based on the sizes of their cold pages defined by +this time interval. + +Proactive reclaim +----------------- +Proactive reclaim induces page reclaim when there is no memory +pressure. It usually targets cold pages only. E.g., when a new job +comes in, the job scheduler wants to proactively reclaim cold pages on +the server it selected to improve the chance of successfully landing +this new job. + +Users can write ``- memcg_id node_id min_gen_nr [swappiness +[nr_to_reclaim]]`` to ``lru_gen`` to evict generations less than or +equal to ``min_gen_nr``. Note that ``min_gen_nr`` should be less than +``max_gen_nr-1`` as ``max_gen_nr`` and ``max_gen_nr-1`` are not fully +aged and therefore cannot be evicted. ``swappiness`` overrides the +default value in ``/proc/sys/vm/swappiness``. ``nr_to_reclaim`` limits +the number of pages to evict. + +A typical use case is that a job scheduler writes to ``lru_gen`` +before it tries to land a new job on a server. If it fails to +materialize enough cold pages because of the overestimation, it +retries on the next server according to the ranking result obtained +from the working set estimation step. This less forceful approach +limits the impacts on the existing jobs. diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 0c2ef0af0036..a0f7b6e66410 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -1137,7 +1137,8 @@ config LRU_GEN # make sure folio->flags has enough spare bits depends on 64BIT || !SPARSEMEM || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP help - A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. + A high performance LRU implementation to overcommit memory. See + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details. config LRU_GEN_ENABLED bool "Enable by default" diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 558fdb857c3e..2422edc786eb 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -5202,6 +5202,7 @@ static ssize_t show_min_ttl(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, c return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", jiffies_to_msecs(READ_ONCE(lru_gen_min_ttl))); } +/* see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details */ static ssize_t store_min_ttl(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len) { @@ -5235,6 +5236,7 @@ static ssize_t show_enabled(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, c return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "0x%04x\n", caps); } +/* see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details */ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len) { @@ -5382,6 +5384,7 @@ static void lru_gen_seq_show_full(struct seq_file *m, struct lruvec *lruvec, seq_putc(m, '\n'); } +/* see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details */ static int lru_gen_seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { unsigned long seq; @@ -5540,6 +5543,7 @@ static int run_cmd(char cmd, int memcg_id, int nid, unsigned long seq, return err; } +/* see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/multigen_lru.rst for details */ static ssize_t lru_gen_seq_write(struct file *file, const char __user *src, size_t len, loff_t *pos) {