From a528910e12ec7ee203095eb1711468a66b9b60b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:47:51 -0700 Subject: mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing The VM maintains cached filesystem pages on two types of lists. One list holds the pages recently faulted into the cache, the other list holds pages that have been referenced repeatedly on that first list. The idea is to prefer reclaiming young pages over those that have shown to benefit from caching in the past. We call the recently usedbut ultimately was not significantly better than a FIFO policy and still thrashed cache based on eviction speed, rather than actual demand for cache. This patch solves one half of the problem by decoupling the ability to detect working set changes from the inactive list size. By maintaining a history of recently evicted file pages it can detect frequently used pages with an arbitrarily small inactive list size, and subsequently apply pressure on the active list based on actual demand for cache, not just overall eviction speed. Every zone maintains a counter that tracks inactive list aging speed. When a page is evicted, a snapshot of this counter is stored in the now-empty page cache radix tree slot. On refault, the minimum access distance of the page can be assessed, to evaluate whether the page should be part of the active list or not. This fixes the VM's blindness towards working set changes in excess of the inactive list. And it's the foundation to further improve the protection ability and reduce the minimum inactive list size of 50%. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Bob Liu Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jan Kara Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Luigi Semenzato Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Metin Doslu Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Ozgun Erdogan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Ryan Mallon Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c') diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index def5dd2fbe61..843125a0e255 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -770,6 +770,8 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "numa_local", "numa_other", #endif + "workingset_refault", + "workingset_activate", "nr_anon_transparent_hugepages", "nr_free_cma", "nr_dirty_threshold", -- cgit v1.2.1