Re: [PATCH v2] mm/vmscan: count layzfree pages and fix nr_isolated_* mismatch

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Fri Apr 24 2020 - 09:18:02 EST


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:16:45PM +0900, Jaewon Kim wrote:
>
>
> On 2020ë 04ì 24ì 05:00, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:05:46PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:16:02PM +0900, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2020ë 04ì 22ì 22:07, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 05:48:15PM +0900, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> >>>>> @@ -1295,11 +1295,15 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> >>>>> */
> >>>>> if (page_mapped(page)) {
> >>>>> enum ttu_flags flags = ttu_flags | TTU_BATCH_FLUSH;
> >>>>> + bool lazyfree = PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapBacked(page);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page)))
> >>>>> flags |= TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD;
> >>>>> +
> >>>>> if (!try_to_unmap(page, flags)) {
> >>>>> stat->nr_unmap_fail += nr_pages;
> >>>>> + if (lazyfree && PageSwapBacked(page))
> >>>> This looks pretty strange, until you remember that try_to_unmap()
> >>>> could SetPageSwapbacked again.
> >>>>
> >>>> This might be more obvious?
> >>>>
> >>>> was_swapbacked = PageSwapBacked(page);
> >>>> if (!try_to_unmap(page, flags)) {
> >>>> stat->nr_unmap_fail += nr_pages;
> >>>> if (!was_swapbacked && PageSwapBacked(page))
> >>> Hello Johannes, thank you for your comment.
> >>>
> >>> The name can changed from layzyfree to was_swapbacked.
> >>> By the way, did you mean removing PageAnon(page), too? It seems to be OK, though.
> >> I can't decide whether PageAnon() makes it clearer or not. But it's
> >> not really needed for correctness. So feel free to keep what you had.
> > Yub, PageAnon is redundant.
> >
> >> I would really just at least change bool lazyfree to was_lazyfree,
> > It's better.
> Thank you both.
>
> Sorry but let me ask again.
>
> Because PageAnon is redundant, let me remove it on checking lazyfree.
> Then, I think, was_swapbacked (first suggestion) is better then was_lazyfree (second suggestion),
> because it just checks PageSwapBacked(page). And we knows was_swapbacked is used for lazyfree on stat->nr_lazyfree_fail.
>
> If you don't mind let me pick was_swapbacked instead of was_lazyfree

That sounds good to me. Thanks Jaewon!