mm: vmscan: detect file thrashing at the reclaim root

We use refault information to determine whether the cache workingset is
stable or transitioning, and dynamically adjust the inactive:active file
LRU ratio so as to maximize protection from one-off cache during stable
periods, and minimize IO during transitions.

With cgroups and their nested LRU lists, we currently don't do this
correctly.  While recursive cgroup reclaim establishes a relative LRU
order among the pages of all involved cgroups, refaults only affect the
local LRU order in the cgroup in which they are occuring.  As a result,
cache transitions can take longer in a cgrouped system as the active pages
of sibling cgroups aren't challenged when they should be.

[ Right now, this is somewhat theoretical, because the siblings, under
  continued regular reclaim pressure, should eventually run out of
  inactive pages - and since inactive:active *size* balancing is also
  done on a cgroup-local level, we will challenge the active pages
  eventually in most cases. But the next patch will move that relative
  size enforcement to the reclaim root as well, and then this patch
  here will be necessary to propagate refault pressure to siblings. ]

This patch moves refault detection to the root of reclaim.  Instead of
remembering the cgroup owner of an evicted page, remember the cgroup that
caused the reclaim to happen.  When refaults later occur, they'll
correctly influence the cross-cgroup LRU order that reclaim follows.

I.e.  if global reclaim kicked out pages in some subgroup A/B/C, the
refault of those pages will challenge the global LRU order, and not just
the local order down inside C.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org:  use page_memcg() instead of another lookup]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115160722.GA309754@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191107205334.158354-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index e8212123c1c3..474186b76ced 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -213,28 +213,53 @@ static void unpack_shadow(void *shadow, int *memcgidp, pg_data_t **pgdat,
 	*workingsetp = workingset;
 }
 
+static void advance_inactive_age(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, pg_data_t *pgdat)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Reclaiming a cgroup means reclaiming all its children in a
+	 * round-robin fashion. That means that each cgroup has an LRU
+	 * order that is composed of the LRU orders of its child
+	 * cgroups; and every page has an LRU position not just in the
+	 * cgroup that owns it, but in all of that group's ancestors.
+	 *
+	 * So when the physical inactive list of a leaf cgroup ages,
+	 * the virtual inactive lists of all its parents, including
+	 * the root cgroup's, age as well.
+	 */
+	do {
+		struct lruvec *lruvec;
+
+		lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
+		atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
+	} while (memcg && (memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)));
+}
+
 /**
  * workingset_eviction - note the eviction of a page from memory
+ * @target_memcg: the cgroup that is causing the reclaim
  * @page: the page being evicted
  *
  * Returns a shadow entry to be stored in @page->mapping->i_pages in place
  * of the evicted @page so that a later refault can be detected.
  */
-void *workingset_eviction(struct page *page)
+void *workingset_eviction(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *target_memcg)
 {
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
-	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg(page);
-	int memcgid = mem_cgroup_id(memcg);
 	unsigned long eviction;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
+	int memcgid;
 
 	/* Page is fully exclusive and pins page->mem_cgroup */
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
 
-	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
-	eviction = atomic_long_inc_return(&lruvec->inactive_age);
+	advance_inactive_age(page_memcg(page), pgdat);
+
+	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(target_memcg, pgdat);
+	/* XXX: target_memcg can be NULL, go through lruvec */
+	memcgid = mem_cgroup_id(lruvec_memcg(lruvec));
+	eviction = atomic_long_read(&lruvec->inactive_age);
 	return pack_shadow(memcgid, pgdat, eviction, PageWorkingset(page));
 }
 
@@ -244,10 +269,13 @@ void *workingset_eviction(struct page *page)
  * @shadow: shadow entry of the evicted page
  *
  * Calculates and evaluates the refault distance of the previously
- * evicted page in the context of the node it was allocated in.
+ * evicted page in the context of the node and the memcg whose memory
+ * pressure caused the eviction.
  */
 void workingset_refault(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 {
+	struct mem_cgroup *eviction_memcg;
+	struct lruvec *eviction_lruvec;
 	unsigned long refault_distance;
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
 	unsigned long active_file;
@@ -277,12 +305,12 @@ void workingset_refault(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 	 * would be better if the root_mem_cgroup existed in all
 	 * configurations instead.
 	 */
-	memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
-	if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg)
+	eviction_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(memcgid);
+	if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !eviction_memcg)
 		goto out;
-	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
-	refault = atomic_long_read(&lruvec->inactive_age);
-	active_file = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES);
+	eviction_lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(eviction_memcg, pgdat);
+	refault = atomic_long_read(&eviction_lruvec->inactive_age);
+	active_file = lruvec_page_state(eviction_lruvec, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
 
 	/*
 	 * Calculate the refault distance
@@ -302,6 +330,17 @@ void workingset_refault(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 	 */
 	refault_distance = (refault - eviction) & EVICTION_MASK;
 
+	/*
+	 * The activation decision for this page is made at the level
+	 * where the eviction occurred, as that is where the LRU order
+	 * during page reclaim is being determined.
+	 *
+	 * However, the cgroup that will own the page is the one that
+	 * is actually experiencing the refault event.
+	 */
+	memcg = page_memcg(page);
+	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
+
 	inc_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT);
 
 	/*
@@ -313,7 +352,7 @@ void workingset_refault(struct page *page, void *shadow)
 		goto out;
 
 	SetPageActive(page);
-	atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
+	advance_inactive_age(memcg, pgdat);
 	inc_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_ACTIVATE);
 
 	/* Page was active prior to eviction */
@@ -332,7 +371,6 @@ out:
 void workingset_activation(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
-	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	/*
@@ -345,8 +383,7 @@ void workingset_activation(struct page *page)
 	memcg = page_memcg_rcu(page);
 	if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !memcg)
 		goto out;
-	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, page_pgdat(page));
-	atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->inactive_age);
+	advance_inactive_age(memcg, page_pgdat(page));
 out:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }