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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2014-04-03 14:47:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:21:01 -0700
commit449dd6984d0e47643c04c807f609dd56d48d5bcc (patch)
tree69f4a0a90290b048e63effc617c8ec907e8d6696 /include/linux/list_lru.h
parent139e561660fe11e0fc35e142a800df3dd7d03e9d (diff)
mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check
Previously, page cache radix tree nodes were freed after reclaim emptied out their page pointers. But now reclaim stores shadow entries in their place, which are only reclaimed when the inodes themselves are reclaimed. This is problematic for bigger files that are still in use after they have a significant amount of their cache reclaimed, without any of those pages actually refaulting. The shadow entries will just sit there and waste memory. In the worst case, the shadow entries will accumulate until the machine runs out of memory. To get this under control, the VM will track radix tree nodes exclusively containing shadow entries on a per-NUMA node list. Per-NUMA rather than global because we expect the radix tree nodes themselves to be allocated node-locally and we want to reduce cross-node references of otherwise independent cache workloads. A simple shrinker will then reclaim these nodes on memory pressure. A few things need to be stored in the radix tree node to implement the shadow node LRU and allow tree deletions coming from the list: 1. There is no index available that would describe the reverse path from the node up to the tree root, which is needed to perform a deletion. To solve this, encode in each node its offset inside the parent. This can be stored in the unused upper bits of the same member that stores the node's height at no extra space cost. 2. The number of shadow entries needs to be counted in addition to the regular entries, to quickly detect when the node is ready to go to the shadow node LRU list. The current entry count is an unsigned int but the maximum number of entries is 64, so a shadow counter can easily be stored in the unused upper bits. 3. Tree modification needs tree lock and tree root, which are located in the address space, so store an address_space backpointer in the node. The parent pointer of the node is in a union with the 2-word rcu_head, so the backpointer comes at no extra cost as well. 4. The node needs to be linked to an LRU list, which requires a list head inside the node. This does increase the size of the node, but it does not change the number of objects that fit into a slab page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export the right function] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ozgun Erdogan <ozgun@citusdata.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/list_lru.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list_lru.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h
index 3ce541753c88..f3434533fbf8 100644
--- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
/* list_lru_walk_cb has to always return one of those */
enum lru_status {
LRU_REMOVED, /* item removed from list */
+ LRU_REMOVED_RETRY, /* item removed, but lock has been
+ dropped and reacquired */
LRU_ROTATE, /* item referenced, give another pass */
LRU_SKIP, /* item cannot be locked, skip */
LRU_RETRY, /* item not freeable. May drop the lock
@@ -32,7 +34,11 @@ struct list_lru {
};
void list_lru_destroy(struct list_lru *lru);
-int list_lru_init(struct list_lru *lru);
+int list_lru_init_key(struct list_lru *lru, struct lock_class_key *key);
+static inline int list_lru_init(struct list_lru *lru)
+{
+ return list_lru_init_key(lru, NULL);
+}
/**
* list_lru_add: add an element to the lru list's tail