Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm:vmscan: the dirty folio in folio_list skip unmap

From: zhiguojiang
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 00:46:08 EST




在 2023/10/20 12:15, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:59:33AM +0800, zhiguojiang wrote:
@@ -1261,43 +1305,6 @@ static unsigned int shrink_folio_list(struct
list_head *folio_list,
                      enum ttu_flags flags = TTU_BATCH_FLUSH;
                      bool was_swapbacked =
folio_test_swapbacked(folio);

-                     if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
-                             /*
-                              * Only kswapd can writeback
filesystem folios
-                              * to avoid risk of stack overflow.
But avoid
-                              * injecting inefficient single-folio
I/O into
-                              * flusher writeback as much as
possible: only
-                              * write folios when we've encountered
many
-                              * dirty folios, and when we've
already scanned
-                              * the rest of the LRU for clean
folios and see
-                              * the same dirty folios again (with
the reclaim
-                              * flag set).
-                              */
-                             if (folio_is_file_lru(folio) &&
-                                     (!current_is_kswapd() ||
- !folio_test_reclaim(folio) ||
-                                      !test_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY,
&pgdat->flags))) {
-                                     /*
-                                      * Immediately reclaim when
written back.
-                                      * Similar in principle to
folio_deactivate()
-                                      * except we already have the
folio isolated
-                                      * and know it's dirty
-                                      */
-                                     node_stat_mod_folio(folio,
NR_VMSCAN_IMMEDIATE,
-                                                     nr_pages);
-                                     folio_set_reclaim(folio);
-
-                                     goto activate_locked;
-                             }
-
-                             if (references == FOLIOREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN)
-                                     goto keep_locked;
-                             if (!may_enter_fs(folio, sc->gfp_mask))
-                                     goto keep_locked;
-                             if (!sc->may_writepage)
-                                     goto keep_locked;
-                     }
-
                      if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio))
                              flags |= TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD;

I'm confused. Did you apply this on top of v1 by accident?
Hi,
According to my modified mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive test tracelog, in the
You're missing David's point. You've generated this patch against ...
something ... that isn't upstream. Probably against v1 of your
patch. Please check your git tree.
Yes, [PATCH v2 1/2] is against my patch v1 index 2cc0cb41fb32..cf555cdfcefc.

32 scanned inactive file pages, 20 were dirty, and the 20 dirty pages were
not reclamed, but they took 20us to perform try_to_unmap.

I think unreclaimed dirty folio in inactive file lru can skip to perform
try_to_unmap. Please help to continue review. Thanks.

kswapd0-99      (     99) [005] .....   687.793724:
mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive: [Justin] nid 0 scan=32 isolate=32 reclamed=12
nr_dirty=20 nr_unqueued_dirty=20 nr_writeback=0 nr_congested=0
nr_immediate=0 nr_activate[0]=0 nr_activate[1]=20 nr_ref_keep=0
nr_unmap_fail=0 priority=2 file=RECLAIM_WB_FILE|RECLAIM_WB_ASYNC total=39
exe=0 reference_cost=5 reference_exe=0 unmap_cost=21 unmap_exe=0
dirty_unmap_cost=20 dirty_unmap_exe=0 pageout_cost=0 pageout_exe=0
Are you seeing measurable changes for any workloads? It certainly seems
like you should, but it would help if you chose a test from mmtests and
showed how performance changed on your system.