[RFC][PATCH 11/13] mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap

[Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>]

From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

Reclaim anonymous pages if a migration path is available now that
demotion provides a non-swap recourse for reclaiming anon pages.

Note that this check is subtly different from the
anon_should_be_aged() checks.  This mechanism checks whether a
specific page in a specific context *can* actually be reclaimed, given
current swap space and cgroup limits

anon_should_be_aged() is a much simpler and more prelimiary check
which just says whether there is a possibility of future reclaim.

#Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
[vishal: fixup the migration->demotion rename]
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: osalvador <osalvador@suse.de>

--

Changes from Dave 10/2020:
 * remove 'total_swap_pages' modification

Changes from Dave 06/2020:
 * rename reclaim_anon_pages()->can_reclaim_anon_pages()

Note: Keith's Intel SoB is commented out because he is no
longer at Intel and his @intel.com mail will bouncee
---

 b/mm/vmscan.c |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~0009-mm-vmscan-Consider-anonymous-pages-without-swap	2021-01-25 16:23:18.106866688 -0800
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c	2021-01-25 16:23:18.111866688 -0800
@@ -289,6 +289,34 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(st
 }
 #endif
 
+static inline bool can_reclaim_anon_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+					  int node_id)
+{
+	if (memcg == NULL) {
+		/*
+		 * For non-memcg reclaim, is there
+		 * space in any swap device?
+		 */
+		if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+			return true;
+	} else {
+		/* Is the memcg below its swap limit? */
+		if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) > 0)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * The page can not be swapped.
+	 *
+	 * Can it be reclaimed from this node via demotion?
+	 */
+	if (next_demotion_node(node_id) >= 0)
+		return true;
+
+	/* No way to reclaim anon pages */
+	return false;
+}
+
 /*
  * This misses isolated pages which are not accounted for to save counters.
  * As the data only determines if reclaim or compaction continues, it is
@@ -300,7 +328,7 @@ unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(str
 
 	nr = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE) +
 		zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE);
-	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+	if (can_reclaim_anon_pages(NULL, zone_to_nid(zone)))
 		nr += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON) +
 			zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON);
 
@@ -2323,6 +2351,7 @@ enum scan_balance {
 static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 			   unsigned long *nr)
 {
+	struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	unsigned long anon_cost, file_cost, total_cost;
 	int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
@@ -2333,7 +2362,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
 	enum lru_list lru;
 
 	/* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
-	if (!sc->may_swap || mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) <= 0) {
+	if (!sc->may_swap || !can_reclaim_anon_pages(memcg, pgdat->node_id)) {
 		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -2708,7 +2737,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_recla
 	 */
 	pages_for_compaction = compact_gap(sc->order);
 	inactive_lru_pages = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
-	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+	if (can_reclaim_anon_pages(NULL, pgdat->node_id))
 		inactive_lru_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 
 	return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction;
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