From 1899ad18c6072d689896badafb81267b0a1092a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:06:04 -0700 Subject: mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing Refaults happen during transitions between workingsets as well as in-place thrashing. Knowing the difference between the two has a range of applications, including measuring the impact of memory shortage on the system performance, as well as the ability to smarter balance pressure between the filesystem cache and the swap-backed workingset. During workingset transitions, inactive cache refaults and pushes out established active cache. When that active cache isn't stale, however, and also ends up refaulting, that's bonafide thrashing. Introduce a new page flag that tells on eviction whether the page has been active or not in its lifetime. This bit is then stored in the shadow entry, to classify refaults as transitioning or thrashing. How many page->flags does this leave us with on 32-bit? 20 bits are always page flags 21 if you have an MMU 23 with the zone bits for DMA, Normal, HighMem, Movable 29 with the sparsemem section bits 30 if PAE is enabled 31 with this patch. So on 32-bit PAE, that leaves 1 bit for distinguishing two NUMA nodes. If that's not enough, the system can switch to discontigmem and re-gain the 6 or 7 sparsemem section bits. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Daniel Drake Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Enderborg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 961401c46334..87e9fef341d2 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2145,6 +2145,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, } ClearPageActive(page); /* we are de-activating */ + SetPageWorkingset(page); list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive); } -- cgit v1.2.3