mm: multi-gen LRU: rename lru_gen_struct to lru_gen_folio

Patch series "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU", v3.

Overview
========

An memcg LRU is a per-node LRU of memcgs.  It is also an LRU of LRUs,
since each node and memcg combination has an LRU of folios (see
mem_cgroup_lruvec()).

Its goal is to improve the scalability of global reclaim, which is
critical to system-wide memory overcommit in data centers.  Note that
memcg reclaim is currently out of scope.

Its memory bloat is a pointer to each lruvec and negligible to each
pglist_data.  In terms of traversing memcgs during global reclaim, it
improves the best-case complexity from O(n) to O(1) and does not affect
the worst-case complexity O(n).  Therefore, on average, it has a sublinear
complexity in contrast to the current linear complexity.

The basic structure of an memcg LRU can be understood by an analogy to
the active/inactive LRU (of folios):
1. It has the young and the old (generations), i.e., the counterparts
   to the active and the inactive;
2. The increment of max_seq triggers promotion, i.e., the counterpart
   to activation;
3. Other events trigger similar operations, e.g., offlining an memcg
   triggers demotion, i.e., the counterpart to deactivation.

In terms of global reclaim, it has two distinct features:
1. Sharding, which allows each thread to start at a random memcg (in
   the old generation) and improves parallelism;
2. Eventual fairness, which allows direct reclaim to bail out at will
   and reduces latency without affecting fairness over some time.

The commit message in patch 6 details the workflow:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-7-yuzhao@google.com/

The following is a simple test to quickly verify its effectiveness.

  Test design:
  1. Create multiple memcgs.
  2. Each memcg contains a job (fio).
  3. All jobs access the same amount of memory randomly.
  4. The system does not experience global memory pressure.
  5. Periodically write to the root memory.reclaim.

  Desired outcome:
  1. All memcgs have similar pgsteal counts, i.e., stddev(pgsteal)
     over mean(pgsteal) is close to 0%.
  2. The total pgsteal is close to the total requested through
     memory.reclaim, i.e., sum(pgsteal) over sum(requested) is close
     to 100%.

  Actual outcome [1]:
                                     MGLRU off    MGLRU on
  stddev(pgsteal) / mean(pgsteal)    75%          20%
  sum(pgsteal) / sum(requested)      425%         95%

  ####################################################################
  MEMCGS=128

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg
  done

  start() {
      echo $BASHPID > /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/cgroup.procs

      fio -name=memcg$memcg --numjobs=1 --ioengine=mmap \
          --filename=/dev/zero --size=1920M --rw=randrw \
          --rate=64m,64m --random_distribution=random \
          --fadvise_hint=0 --time_based --runtime=10h \
          --group_reporting --minimal
  }

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      start &
  done

  sleep 600

  for ((i = 0; i < 600; i++)); do
      echo 256m >/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim
      sleep 6
  done

  for ((memcg = 0; memcg < $MEMCGS; memcg++)); do
      grep "pgsteal " /sys/fs/cgroup/memcg$memcg/memory.stat
  done
  ####################################################################

[1]: This was obtained from running the above script (touches less
     than 256GB memory) on an EPYC 7B13 with 512GB DRAM for over an
     hour.


This patch (of 8):

The new name lru_gen_folio will be more distinct from the coming
lru_gen_memcg.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-2-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index cd28a100d9e4..1686fcc4ed01 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ enum {
  * The number of pages in each generation is eventually consistent and therefore
  * can be transiently negative when reset_batch_size() is pending.
  */
-struct lru_gen_struct {
+struct lru_gen_folio {
 	/* the aging increments the youngest generation number */
 	unsigned long max_seq;
 	/* the eviction increments the oldest generation numbers */
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ struct lru_gen_mm_state {
 struct lru_gen_mm_walk {
 	/* the lruvec under reclaim */
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
-	/* unstable max_seq from lru_gen_struct */
+	/* unstable max_seq from lru_gen_folio */
 	unsigned long max_seq;
 	/* the next address within an mm to scan */
 	unsigned long next_addr;
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ struct lruvec {
 	unsigned long			flags;
 #ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
 	/* evictable pages divided into generations */
-	struct lru_gen_struct		lrugen;
+	struct lru_gen_folio		lrugen;
 	/* to concurrently iterate lru_gen_mm_list */
 	struct lru_gen_mm_state		mm_state;
 #endif