From: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:16 PM
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
> Since commit bd4c82c22c36 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after
> swapped out"), THP can be swapped out in a whole. But, nr_reclaimed
> still gets inc'ed by one even though a whole THP (512 pages) gets
> swapped out.
>
> This doesn't make too much sense to memory reclaim. For example, direct
> reclaim may just need reclaim SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages, reclaiming one THP
> could fulfill it. But, if nr_reclaimed is not increased correctly,
> direct reclaim may just waste time to reclaim more pages,
> SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 512 pages in worst case.
>
> This change may result in more reclaimed pages than scanned pages showed
> by /proc/vmstat since scanning one head page would reclaim 512 base pages.
>
> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Nice find.
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
> ---
> I'm not quite sure if it was the intended behavior or just omission. I tried
> to dig into the review history, but didn't find any clue. I may miss some
> discussion.
>
> mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index fd9de50..7e026ec 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1446,7 +1446,11 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head
> *page_list,
>
> unlock_page(page);
> free_it:
> - nr_reclaimed++;
> + /*
> + * THP may get swapped out in a whole, need account
> + * all base pages.
> + */
> + nr_reclaimed += (1 << compound_order(page));
>
> /*
> * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
