Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm: mark folio accessed in minor fault

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 06:29:48PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Inactive mapped folio will be promoted to active only when it is
> scanned in shrink_inactive_list, while the vfs folio will do this
> immidiatly when it is accessed. These will introduce two affections:
> 
> 1. NR_ACTIVE_FILE is not accurate as expected.
> 2. Low reclaiming efficiency caused by dummy nactive folio which should
>    be kept as earlier as shrink_active_list.
> 
> I would like to suggest mark the folio be accessed in minor fault to
> solve this situation.

This isn't going to be as effective as you imagine.  Almost all file
faults are handled through filemap_map_pages().  So I must ask, what
testing have you done with this patch?

And while you're gathering data, what effect would this patch have on your
workloads?

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 2e6b1daac6cd..8cecf82dcc5a 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3418,6 +3418,7 @@ static struct folio *next_uptodate_folio(struct xa_state *xas,
 		max_idx = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE);
 		if (xas->xa_index >= max_idx)
 			goto unlock;
+		folio_mark_accessed(folio);
 		return folio;
 unlock:
 		folio_unlock(folio);