From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>, <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
<gourry@gourry.net>, <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
<mingo@redhat.com>, <peterz@infradead.org>,
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<byungchul@sk.com>, <kinseyho@google.com>,
<joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>, <yuanchu@google.com>,
<balbirs@nvidia.com>, <alok.rathore@samsung.com>,
<shivankg@amd.com>, Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v5 09/10] mm: klruscand: use mglru scanning for page promotion
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:10:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260129144043.231636-10-bharata@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260129144043.231636-1-bharata@amd.com>
From: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Introduce a new kernel daemon, klruscand, that periodically invokes the
MGLRU page table walk. It leverages the new callbacks to gather access
information and forwards it to pghot sub-system for promotion decisions.
This benefits from reusing the existing MGLRU page table walk
infrastructure, which is optimized with features such as hierarchical
scanning and bloom filters to reduce CPU overhead.
As an additional optimization to be added in the future, we can tune
the scan intervals for each memcg.
Signed-off-by: Kinsey Ho <kinseyho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
[Reduced the scan interval to 500ms, KLRUSCAND to default n in config]
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
---
mm/Kconfig | 8 ++++
mm/Makefile | 1 +
mm/klruscand.c | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 119 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 mm/klruscand.c
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 07b16aece877..9e9eca8db8bf 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1502,6 +1502,14 @@ config HWMEM_PROFILER
rolled up to PGHOT sub-system for further action like hot page
promotion or NUMA Balancing
+config KLRUSCAND
+ bool "Kernel lower tier access scan daemon"
+ default n
+ depends on PGHOT && LRU_GEN_WALKS_MMU
+ help
+ Scan for accesses from lower tiers by invoking MGLRU to perform
+ page table walks.
+
source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
endmenu
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 89f999647752..c68df497a063 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -153,3 +153,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PGHOT) += pghot-precise.o
else
obj-$(CONFIG_PGHOT) += pghot-default.o
endif
+obj-$(CONFIG_KLRUSCAND) += klruscand.o
diff --git a/mm/klruscand.c b/mm/klruscand.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..13a41b38d67d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/klruscand.c
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
+#include <linux/pghot.h>
+
+#include "internal.h"
+
+#define KLRUSCAND_INTERVAL 500
+#define BATCH_SIZE (2 << 16)
+
+static struct task_struct *scan_thread;
+static unsigned long pfn_batch[BATCH_SIZE];
+static int batch_index;
+
+static void flush_cb(void)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < batch_index; i++) {
+ unsigned long pfn = pfn_batch[i];
+
+ pghot_record_access(pfn, NUMA_NO_NODE, PGHOT_PGTABLE_SCAN, jiffies);
+
+ if (i % 16 == 0)
+ cond_resched();
+ }
+ batch_index = 0;
+}
+
+static bool accessed_cb(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(batch_index == BATCH_SIZE);
+
+ if (batch_index < BATCH_SIZE)
+ pfn_batch[batch_index++] = pfn;
+
+ return batch_index == BATCH_SIZE;
+}
+
+static int klruscand_run(void *unused)
+{
+ struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk;
+
+ walk = kzalloc(sizeof(*walk),
+ __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ if (!walk)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ unsigned long next_wake_time;
+ long sleep_time;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ int flags;
+ int nid;
+
+ next_wake_time = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(KLRUSCAND_INTERVAL);
+
+ for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) {
+ pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
+ struct reclaim_state rs = { 0 };
+
+ if (node_is_toptier(nid))
+ continue;
+
+ rs.mm_walk = walk;
+ set_task_reclaim_state(current, &rs);
+ flags = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
+
+ memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
+ do {
+ struct lruvec *lruvec =
+ mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
+ unsigned long max_seq =
+ READ_ONCE((lruvec)->lrugen.max_seq);
+
+ lru_gen_scan_lruvec(lruvec, max_seq, accessed_cb, flush_cb);
+ cond_resched();
+ } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)));
+
+ memalloc_noreclaim_restore(flags);
+ set_task_reclaim_state(current, NULL);
+ memset(walk, 0, sizeof(*walk));
+ }
+
+ sleep_time = next_wake_time - jiffies;
+ if (sleep_time > 0 && sleep_time != MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT)
+ schedule_timeout_idle(sleep_time);
+ }
+ kfree(walk);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int __init klruscand_init(void)
+{
+ struct task_struct *task;
+
+ task = kthread_run(klruscand_run, NULL, "klruscand");
+
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
+ pr_err("Failed to create klruscand kthread\n");
+ return PTR_ERR(task);
+ }
+
+ scan_thread = task;
+ return 0;
+}
+module_init(klruscand_init);
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-29 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-29 14:40 [RFC PATCH v5 00/10] mm: Hot page tracking and promotion infrastructure Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 01/10] mm: migrate: Allow misplaced migration without VMA Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 02/10] migrate: Add migrate_misplaced_folios_batch() Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 03/10] mm: Hot page tracking and promotion Bharata B Rao
2026-02-11 15:40 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-02-11 16:08 ` Gregory Price
2026-02-12 2:03 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 04/10] mm: pghot: Precision mode for pghot Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 05/10] mm: sched: move NUMA balancing tiering promotion to pghot Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 06/10] x86: ibs: In-kernel IBS driver for memory access profiling Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 07/10] x86: ibs: Enable IBS profiling for memory accesses Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 08/10] mm: mglru: generalize page table walk Bharata B Rao
2026-01-29 14:40 ` Bharata B Rao [this message]
2026-01-29 14:40 ` [RFC PATCH v5 10/10] mm: pghot: Add folio_mark_accessed() as hotness source Bharata B Rao
2026-02-09 3:25 ` [RFC PATCH v5 00/10] mm: Hot page tracking and promotion infrastructure Bharata B Rao
2026-02-09 3:30 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-02-11 15:30 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-02-11 16:04 ` Gregory Price
2026-02-12 2:16 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-02-11 16:06 ` Gregory Price
2026-02-12 16:15 ` Bharata B Rao
2026-02-13 14:56 ` Gregory Price
2026-02-16 3:00 ` Bharata B Rao
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