From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f197.google.com (mail-qt0-f197.google.com [209.85.216.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD586B0260 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 08:38:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qt0-f197.google.com with SMTP id p1so3785010qtg.18 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from szxga04-in.huawei.com (szxga04-in.huawei.com. [45.249.212.190]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y190si1162487qkd.187.2017.11.02.05.38.48 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: [PATCH] mm: try to free swap only for reading swap fault Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:35:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1509626119-39916-1-git-send-email-zhouxianrong@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jack@suse.cz, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, dave.jiang@intel.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, minchan@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, jglisse@redhat.com, willy@linux.intel.com, hughd@google.com, zhouxianrong@huawei.com, zhouxiyu@huawei.com, weidu.du@huawei.com, fanghua3@huawei.com, hutj@huawei.com, won.ho.park@huawei.com From: zhouxianrong the purpose of this patch is that when a reading swap fault happens on a clean swap cache page whose swap count is equal to one, then try_to_free_swap could remove this page from swap cache and mark this page dirty. so if later we reclaimed this page then we could pageout this page due to this dirty. so i want to allow this action only for writing swap fault. i sampled the data of non-dirty anonymous pages which is no need to pageout and total anonymous pages in shrink_page_list. the results are: non-dirty anonymous pages total anonymous pages before 26343 635218 after 36907 634312 Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index a728bed..5a944fe 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2999,7 +2999,7 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) } swap_free(entry); - if (mem_cgroup_swap_full(page) || + if (((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && mem_cgroup_swap_full(page)) || (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || PageMlocked(page)) try_to_free_swap(page); unlock_page(page); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org