[178/212] mm/vmscan: add helper for querying ability to age anonymous pages

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Sept. 2, 2021, 9:59 p.m. UTC

From: Dave Hansen <[e-mail]>
Subject: mm/vmscan: add helper for querying ability to age anonymous pages

Anonymous pages are kept on their own LRU(s).  These lists could
theoretically always be scanned and maintained.  But, without swap, there
is currently nothing the kernel can *do* with the results of a scanned,
sorted LRU for anonymous pages.

A check for '!total_swap_pages' currently serves as a valid check as to
whether anonymous LRUs should be maintained.  However, another method will
be added shortly: page demotion.

Abstract out the 'total_swap_pages' checks into a helper, give it a
logically significant name, and check for the possibility of page
demotion.

[[e-mail]: v11]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
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Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[e-mail]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[e-mail]>
Cc: Wei Xu <[e-mail]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[e-mail]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[e-mail]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[e-mail]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[e-mail]>
Cc: Keith Busch <[e-mail]>
Cc: Yang Shi <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-add-helper-for-querying-ability-to-age-anonymous-pages
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2734,6 +2734,21 @@  out:
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Anonymous LRU management is a waste if there is
+ * ultimately no way to reclaim the memory.
+ */
+static bool can_age_anon_pages(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
+			       struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+	/* Aging the anon LRU is valuable if swap is present: */
+	if (total_swap_pages > 0)
+		return true;
+
+	/* Also valuable if anon pages can be demoted: */
+	return can_demote(pgdat->node_id, sc);
+}
+
 static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
@@ -2843,7 +2858,8 @@  static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec
 	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
 	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
 	 */
-	if (total_swap_pages && inactive_is_low(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON))
+	if (can_age_anon_pages(lruvec_pgdat(lruvec), sc) &&
+	    inactive_is_low(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON))
 		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
 				   sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
 }
@@ -3678,7 +3694,7 @@  static void age_active_anon(struct pglis
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 
-	if (!total_swap_pages)
+	if (!can_age_anon_pages(pgdat, sc))
 		return;
 
 	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(NULL, pgdat);