From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1794596149; b=0jGQOX2Y2Trmw60Axuz8aR7W4DDMmLBLyM85/WtCZFIQBxLeq1IxF9g9wKlCtpV+SVFG EFgEcNRZvllxqYlP45w9a/VieR/gNHVHD97PxtsOT2UfAdErSYxhfTaDu0qVKR//kfxot 5qZxcxK9UMpntO1RNHE5HpO+gdHyMaFENiMXJnDPlr5eC6Ju25lGQov9MpLy/hsOMhQuj fmnTuhFETG+zmr+lboCnqs7Dw+3vyO0qeijMXper8tjT7hwnBa1Lx1cEbcyGg7xHkM4Pb 3LXaV4eYQM5Tjtefu6GqniKTPBnb4ZiSc1oHe6Ih2RFAycYNu2ZdQY3xE5b82zazEww== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1794596149; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:X-Mailer: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=IL2ZDHTivJXAZxExPQOlakmXtpTkWanMmcraAEGCXQ0=; b=D2cZZVxl6uaU2/9RqQvCeQtsniuc3mv0s+jfdChICeNCFSopnabqtkUdTyPT/iM+NVeO p4xT8v/UeWxQY29SqczIsxhrsGvkgd4jwVrz/qJfL+93d+3O19tJCHaeE8RXJcXcL2Qps RU68uSEN/jsVFCHbqIOfpZyw4DJyZfvlmb64xz49F9g+MgI8B2UwImbgX8lwJ8FDoQ6iq a2+ygFk4vPQJcfxeB2ZXxhi+R09UJx7JXLt/xLGndS1nwhdqT7cuIW/w9QGuyFz3K4itd 5KbytkDy9zdZYTaCGTazuUrpvIHTWBlnVvNpod2n35advRn+U2EihtPr6vAIin8e41w== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=mhbHX4Lz; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23602606A330 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=mhbHX4Lz Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0AC8A1F000C4; Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:55:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1794596148; bh=IL2ZDHTivJXAZxExPQOlakmXtpTkWanMmcraAEGCXQ0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date; b=mhbHX4LzYZ11AhyNACAQLD0O9t57YnPG/RlnHVUXt4NcbyM+Kr4eeiKtOllZEn8+2 1aIB2ECFvMIG/LHeQptTJtT8ujO3JYoxDg2I2OLdduSTbd8OJCFyLex2Xob+B3Y6L3 8P/1DYKaleD9/TJ0BmWqro2nu+46D1Mmanzgx/m6hkSV5+InB2cnR69wm5jRz7UTTn 6GW31ITJJFYy+kmeRCE7459EoW2vyII8uIHJxWMQ8au2PGnz2Z607iX/v9oKvrch5V 2prXYp1Jslv4n9nrM/CpXjZwlTZrG0hmr9hjV0zPfT2b7l5z1Wg9TVWJGwg5DhFpu4 eICOyzOD3QL+A== From: "Barry Song (Xiaomi)" To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: axelrasmussen@google.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, baoquan.he@linux.dev, hannes@cmpxchg.org, hui.zhu@linux.dev, kasong@tencent.com, kunwu.chan@gmail.com, liam@infradead.org, lianux.mm@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, liuxiang.277@bytedance.com, lyugaofei@xiaomi.com, mhocko@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev, ridong.chen@linux.dev, rppt@kernel.org, ryncsn@gmail.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, surenb@google.com, wangzicheng@honor.com, weixugc@google.com, yuanchu@google.com, zhangbo56@xiaomi.com, zhuhui@kylinos.cn, sidchintamaneni@gmail.com, "Barry Song (Xiaomi)" Subject: [PATCH v8 00/16] mm: mglru: fix swappiness behavior Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:55:25 +0800 Message-Id: <20261113185541.70203-1-baohua@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Classic LRU respects swappiness, while MGLRU only weakly honors it when selecting the scan type. The fallback logic can easily override the bias established by get_type_to_scan(). As a result, swappiness has a much smaller overall impact when changing from 1 to 200, as shown by the data presented later in this cover letter. In this patchset, patches 1-8 from Kairui introduce a model that uses refaults to determine nr_to_scan[] for both file and anon in MGLRU. For each reclaim operation, we calculate how many file and anon folios to scan, similar to CLRU, rather than relying on get_type_to_scan() and fallback mechanisms to decide what to reclaim, which have proven rather unreliable in honoring swappiness. This model also allows scanning and reclaiming from the two youngest generations, including the youngest generation itself. This can help resolve OOM situations[1] and reduce the need for aging. As Kairui mentioned, the OOM reproducer was demonstrated previously [2], and that series was merged in v7 [3]. The problem was largely alleviated as described, but not completely fixed. Under higher memory pressure, the system could still hit OOM. Before this series, Kairui could still reproduce OOM after hundreds of iterations. With the fixing patch in this series applied, the problem no longer occurs. Patch 9 from Barry fixes a cold/hot inversion exacerbated by patches 1–8 (which also exists in mainline) and improves reclaim efficiency. Patches 10-15 from Gaofei and Barry optimize aging based on folio distribution imbalance and improve reclaim behavior at extreme swappiness values such as 1 and 200. Patch 16 from Bo Zhang addresses the GFP_NOIO issue in MGLRU. After the patchset, the results track CLRU across the full swappiness range (see table below), with more file scanning at low swappiness and more anon scanning at high swappiness. pgsteal_file swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 6,620,680 745,968 6,190,575 36 807,807 508,974 525,304 71 553,144 417,700 405,545 106 402,880 402,474 348,365 141 240,293 337,797 305,170 176 187,682 330,045 231,038 200 0 343,949 256 pgsteal_anon swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 4,436,199 2,671,934 5,103,813 36 2,858,117 3,032,747 3,134,511 71 3,042,392 2,827,735 3,170,171 106 3,292,622 3,184,314 3,225,293 141 3,612,869 2,999,000 3,590,478 176 3,827,154 3,134,127 3,873,163 200 13,825,283 3,269,753 14,399,074 pgscan_file swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 11,853,625 877,311 12,715,103 36 1,016,826 582,783 612,867 71 662,823 474,772 443,149 106 496,374 451,285 364,203 141 277,109 382,604 327,444 176 206,261 372,059 236,838 200 0 393,608 256 pgscan_anon swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 20,804,386 5,847,747 7,142,640 36 17,830,330 6,740,075 6,297,912 71 18,357,293 6,126,194 7,046,149 106 19,938,920 6,431,355 7,876,121 141 19,609,579 5,997,762 9,672,762 176 21,612,749 6,071,032 11,195,357 200 44,776,474 6,544,125 30,225,030 refault_file swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 6,523,070 667,302 6,103,539 36 722,110 431,585 448,161 71 477,062 340,241 331,108 106 327,610 324,747 272,266 141 161,827 265,959 228,015 176 115,551 258,515 172,882 200 0 268,049 212 refault_anon swappiness CLRU MGLRU MGLRU+patches 1 867,728 552,829 1,415,594 36 419,635 657,745 668,238 71 536,299 611,345 672,096 106 580,742 693,689 728,319 141 706,151 639,850 817,954 176 706,499 685,086 949,643 200 4,693,850 733,273 5,475,622 With a normal swappiness setting (without extreme bias), I see almost no noticeable performance difference between the two versions. For example, with `swappiness=60`, the average results over 5 rounds are: metric W/o patch W/ patch real 1m49.273s 1m49.051s user 25m33.186s 25m31.778s sys 3m41.851s 3m40.721s [1] https://github.com/ryncsn/emm-test-project/tree/master/file-anon-mix-pressure [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260318-mglru-reclaim-v1-0-2c46f9eb0508@tencent.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260428-mglru-reclaim-v7-0-02fabb92dc43@tencent.com/ v8: * Fixed Gaofei Lyu's name; * for debugfs proactive reclaim, use DEF_PRIORITY; * refine no-populatable aging (limit frequency, allow an aging after eviction returns 0 scanned) * refine "restrict eviction accounting to eligible zones" for potential premature OOM; * Collect Baolin's reviewed-by tag, thanks! v7 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261111232603.9934-1-baohua@kernel.org/ v7: * fix a build error of bisect and address some other sashiko minor comments; * add no-populatable aging; v6 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261110202025.25736-1-baohua@kernel.org/ v6: * rebase on top of mm-new(a lot of conflicts due to recent active mglru developments); * only count eligible zones below sc->reclaim_idx for lruvec_evictable_size() and lru_gen_imbalanced(); * GFP_NOIO further fixing by Bo Zhang, exclude unreclaimable type in lruvec_evictable_size(). * Add Kunwu's reviewed-by, thanks! * RFC v5 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261022220203.91911-1-baohua@kernel.org/ RFC v5: * Remove the aging optimizations, which have been merged - thanks for Baolin, Baoqun, Lian Wang, Kairui, Kunwu, Ridong reviewing on this; * Add Kairui's model for determining nr_to_scan[] for both types. * Fix cold/hot inversion for rejected folios - Barry. * Improve and clean up imbalanced aging, and optimize extreme swappiness values of 1 and 200 - Gaofei, Barry. * Address the GFP_NOIO issue in MGLRU - Bo Zhang. * RFC v4 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260812121658.69965-1-baohua@kernel.org/ RFC v4: * Clean up isolate_folios() based on Baolin's feedback. Thanks! * Further improve isolate_folios() and scan_folios(), including handling of exhausted reclaim types. * Add fixes and performance improvements to inc_min_seq(), and reduce lock contention. * Improve the handling of imbalanced aging and remaining generation-based aging. * RFC v3 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260731083843.37811-1-baohua@kernel.org/ RFC v3: - Added Ridong's patch of improving isolate_folios() readability; - for lru_gen_imbalanced(), apply some suggestions from Zicheng and Kairui, considering lruvec size and use macro; - drop "mm: mglru: only fall back when reclaim is running at high priority" - mitigate aging for balanced swappiess value(near middle 100) as swappiness bias is less a concern for them; but slightly increased aging overhead might not be good. * RFC v2 link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260726122123.7614-1-baohua@kernel.org/ RFC v2: - Quickly address a few issues raised in the Sashiko comments so reviewers can ignore v1 and review a cleaner version instead. https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260726012946.18684-1-baohua@kernel.org Thanks, Sashiko! Barry Song (Xiaomi) (5): mm/mglru: Avoid placing rejected folios below populated gen mm/mglru: Run aging when one type has no populatable folios mm/mglru: Restrict eviction accounting to eligible zones mm/mglru: Reduce LRU lock contention by shrinking folio batches in inc_min_seq mm/mglru: Make swappiness=1 file reclaim more aggressive Bo Zhang (1): mm/mglru: Avoid scan anon while swapcache is low for GFP_NOIO allocation Gaofei Lyu (2): mm/mglru: Run aging when pages are rare outside the youngest gen mm/mglru: Avoid prolonged anon reclaim with swappiness=200 Kairui Song (8): mm/mglru: report evictable sizes per type mm/mglru: extract lruvec_populated_min_seq() helper mm/mglru: reclaim from the oldest populated gen mm/mglru: lift the forced protection of reclaimer mm/mglru: skip zones above reclaim_idx instead of rotating them mm/mglru: return for unavailable anon reclaim earlier mm/mglru: balance anon and file scan budget by refault rate mm/mglru: lift youngest gen protection for higher priority include/linux/mm_inline.h | 22 +- mm/trace_vmscan.h | 4 +- mm/vmscan.c | 516 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- mm/vmscan.h | 5 +- 4 files changed, 366 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-) -- 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)