Re: [PATCH RFC 1/1] mm/swap: queue reclaimable folio to local rotate batch when !folio_test_lru()

[Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 4:18 AM Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> On 2024/2/14 15:13, Yu Zhao wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 6:00 AM <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
> >>
> >> All LRU move interfaces have a problem that it has no effect if the
> >> folio is isolated from LRU (in cpu batch or isolated by shrinker).
> >> Since it can't move/change folio LRU status when it's isolated, mostly
> >> just clear the folio flag and do nothing in this case.
> >>
> >> In our case, a written back and reclaimable folio won't be rotated to
> >> the tail of inactive list, since it's still in cpu lru_add batch. It
> >> may cause the delayed reclaim of this folio and evict other folios.
> >>
> >> This patch changes to queue the reclaimable folio to cpu rotate batch
> >> even when !folio_test_lru(), hoping it will likely be handled after
> >> the lru_add batch which will put folio on the LRU list first, so
> >> will be rotated to the tail successfully when handle rotate batch.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
> >
> > I don't think the analysis is correct. IIRC, writeback from non
> > reclaim paths doesn't require isolation and the reclaim path doesn't
> > use struct folio_batch lru_add.
>
> Ah, my bad, I forgot to mention the important context in the message:
>
> This is not from the normal reclaim context, it's from zswap writeback
> reclaim context, which will first set PG_reclaim flag, then submit the
> async writeback io.
>
> If the writeback io complete fast enough, folio_rotate_reclaimable()
> will be called before that folio put on LRU list (it still in the local
> lru_add batch, so it's somewhat like isolated too)
>
> >
> > Did you see any performance improvements with this patch? In general,
> > this kind of patches should have performance numbers to show it really
> > helps (not just in theory).
>
> Right, there are some improvements, the numbers are put in cover letter.
> But this solution is not good enough, just RFC for discussion. :)
>
>                            mm-unstable-hot   zswap-lru-reclaim
> real                       63.34             62.72
> user                       1063.20           1060.30
> sys                        272.04            256.14
> workingset_refault_anon    2103297.00        1788155.80
> workingset_refault_file    28638.20          39249.40
> workingset_activate_anon   746134.00         695435.40
> workingset_activate_file   4344.60           4255.80
> workingset_restore_anon    653163.80         605315.60
> workingset_restore_file    1079.00           883.00
> workingset_nodereclaim     0.00              0.00
> pgscan                     12971305.60       12730331.20
> pgscan_kswapd              0.00              0.00
> pgscan_direct              12971305.60       12730331.20
> pgscan_khugepaged          0.00              0.00
>
> >
> > My guess is that you are hitting this problem [1].
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221116013808.3995280-1-yuzhao@google.com/
>
> Right, I just see it, it's the same problem. The only difference is that
> in your case the folio is isolated by shrinker, in my case, the folio is
> in cpu lru_add batch. Anyway, the result is the same, that folio can't be
> rotated successfully when writeback complete.

In that case, a better solution would be to make lru_add add
(_reclaim() && !_dirty() && !_writeback()) folios at the tail.
(_rotate() needs to leave _reclaim() set if it fails to rotate.)