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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2022-05-12 20:23:02 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-13 07:20:15 -0700
commitd33e4e1412c8b618f5f2f251ab9ddcfdf9f4adf3 (patch)
tree9d955b9919a48cd18dbbfc333cf6eed5b9f6d546 /mm/vmscan.c
parent1bee2c1677bcb57dadd374cafb59be86ad1a1a82 (diff)
vmscan: convert the writeback handling in shrink_page_list() to folios
Slightly more efficient due to fewer calls to compound_head(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220504182857.4013401-7-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c78
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e25bca89c3c1..2837e7e3677c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1598,40 +1598,42 @@ retry:
stat->nr_congested += nr_pages;
/*
- * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
+ * If a folio at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there
* are three cases to consider.
*
- * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages
- * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and
- * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued
- * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the
- * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an
- * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the
- * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead
- * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the
- * caller can stall after page list has been processed.
+ * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of folios
+ * under writeback and this folio is both under
+ * writeback and has the reclaim flag set then it
+ * indicates that folios are being queued for I/O but
+ * are being recycled through the LRU before the I/O
+ * can complete. Waiting on the folio itself risks an
+ * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback
+ * the folio due to I/O error or disconnected storage
+ * so instead note that the LRU is being scanned too
+ * quickly and the caller can stall after the folio
+ * list has been processed.
*
- * 2) Global or new memcg reclaim encounters a page that is
+ * 2) Global or new memcg reclaim encounters a folio that is
* not marked for immediate reclaim, or the caller does not
* have __GFP_FS (or __GFP_IO if it's simply going to swap,
- * not to fs). In this case mark the page for immediate
+ * not to fs). In this case mark the folio for immediate
* reclaim and continue scanning.
*
* Require may_enter_fs() because we would wait on fs, which
- * may not have submitted IO yet. And the loop driver might
- * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for
+ * may not have submitted I/O yet. And the loop driver might
+ * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a folio for
* which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off
* __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought
* would probably show more reasons.
*
- * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a page that is already marked
- * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages
+ * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a folio that already has the
+ * reclaim flag set. memcg does not have any dirty folio
* throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many
- * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to
+ * folios are in writeback and there is nothing else to
* reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete.
*
- * In cases 1) and 2) we activate the pages to get them out of
- * the way while we continue scanning for clean pages on the
+ * In cases 1) and 2) we activate the folios to get them out of
+ * the way while we continue scanning for clean folios on the
* inactive list and refilling from the active list. The
* observation here is that waiting for disk writes is more
* expensive than potentially causing reloads down the line.
@@ -1639,38 +1641,42 @@ retry:
* memory pressure on the cache working set any longer than it
* takes to write them to disk.
*/
- if (PageWriteback(page)) {
+ if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) {
/* Case 1 above */
if (current_is_kswapd() &&
- PageReclaim(page) &&
+ folio_test_reclaim(folio) &&
test_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags)) {
stat->nr_immediate += nr_pages;
goto activate_locked;
/* Case 2 above */
} else if (writeback_throttling_sane(sc) ||
- !PageReclaim(page) || !may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask)) {
+ !folio_test_reclaim(folio) ||
+ !may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask)) {
/*
- * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback()
- * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then
- * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted
- * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter
- * enough to care. What we do want is for this
- * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg
- * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will
- * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM;
- * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim.
+ * This is slightly racy -
+ * folio_end_writeback() might have just
+ * cleared the reclaim flag, then setting
+ * reclaim here ends up interpreted as
+ * the readahead flag - but that does
+ * not matter enough to care. What we
+ * do want is for this folio to have
+ * the reclaim flag set next time memcg
+ * reclaim reaches the tests above, so
+ * it will then folio_wait_writeback()
+ * to avoid OOM; and it's also appropriate
+ * in global reclaim.
*/
- SetPageReclaim(page);
+ folio_set_reclaim(folio);
stat->nr_writeback += nr_pages;
goto activate_locked;
/* Case 3 above */
} else {
- unlock_page(page);
- wait_on_page_writeback(page);
- /* then go back and try same page again */
- list_add_tail(&page->lru, page_list);
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_wait_writeback(folio);
+ /* then go back and try same folio again */
+ list_add_tail(&folio->lru, page_list);
continue;
}
}