Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932188Ab2FGEPf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:15:35 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:63306 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932139Ab2FGEP3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:15:29 -0400 Message-Id: <20120607040337.475946502@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-19.1 Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:03:43 +0900 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Mel Gorman , Minchan Kim , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel Subject: [ 07/82] mm: consider all swapped back pages in used-once logic In-Reply-To: <20120607041406.GA13233@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2800 Lines: 69 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Hocko commit e48982734ea0500d1eba4f9d96195acc5406cad6 upstream. Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once") made mapped pages have another round in inactive list because they might be just short lived and so we could consider them again next time. This heuristic helps to reduce pressure on the active list with a streaming IO worklods. This patch fixes a regression introduced by this commit for heavy shmem based workloads because unlike Anon pages, which are excluded from this heuristic because they are usually long lived, shmem pages are handled as a regular page cache. This doesn't work quite well, unfortunately, if the workload is mostly backed by shmem (in memory database sitting on 80% of memory) with a streaming IO in the background (backup - up to 20% of memory). Anon inactive list is full of (dirty) shmem pages when watermarks are hit. Shmem pages are kept in the inactive list (they are referenced) in the first round and it is hard to reclaim anything else so we reach lower scanning priorities very quickly which leads to an excessive swap out. Let's fix this by excluding all swap backed pages (they tend to be long lived wrt. the regular page cache anyway) from used-once heuristic and rather activate them if they are referenced. The customer's workload is shmem backed database (80% of RAM) and they are measuring transactions/s with an IO in the background (20%). Transactions touch more or less random rows in the table. The transaction rate fell by a factor of 3 (in the worst case) because of commit 64574746. This patch restores the previous numbers. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static enum page_references page_check_r return PAGEREF_RECLAIM; if (referenced_ptes) { - if (PageAnon(page)) + if (PageSwapBacked(page)) return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE; /* * All mapped pages start out with page table -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/