[mm-unstable,v1,2/7] mm: multi-gen LRU: section for rmap/PT walk feedback

Commit Message

T.J. Alumbaugh Jan. 18, 2023, 12:18 a.m. UTC

Add a section for lru_gen_look_around() in the code and the design
doc.

Signed-off-by: T.J. Alumbaugh <[e-mail]>
---
 Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 mm/vmscan.c                       |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst b/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
index 6e1483e70fdc..bd988a142bc2 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/multigen_lru.rst
@@ -156,6 +156,20 @@  This time-based approach has the following advantages:
    and memory sizes.
 2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer.
 
+Rmap/PT walk feedback
+---------------------
+Searching the rmap for PTEs mapping each page on an LRU list (to test
+and clear the accessed bit) can be expensive because pages from
+different VMAs (PA space) are not cache friendly to the rmap (VA
+space). For workloads mostly using mapped pages, searching the rmap
+can incur the highest CPU cost in the reclaim path.
+
+``lru_gen_look_around()`` exploits spatial locality to reduce the
+trips into the rmap. It scans the adjacent PTEs of a young PTE and
+promotes hot pages. If the scan was done cacheline efficiently, it
+adds the PMD entry pointing to the PTE table to the Bloom filter. This
+forms a feedback loop between the eviction and the aging.
+
 Summary
 -------
 The multi-gen LRU can be disassembled into the following parts:
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a741765896b6..eb9263bf6806 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4569,6 +4569,10 @@  static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 	}
 }
 
+/******************************************************************************
+ *                          rmap/PT walk feedback
+ ******************************************************************************/
+
 /*
  * This function exploits spatial locality when shrink_folio_list() walks the
  * rmap. It scans the adjacent PTEs of a young PTE and promotes hot pages. If