Commit e4898273 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: consider all swapped back pages in used-once logic

Commit 64574746 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
made mapped pages have another round in inactive list because they might
be just short lived and so we could consider them again next time.  This
heuristic helps to reduce pressure on the active list with a streaming
IO worklods.

This patch fixes a regression introduced by this commit for heavy shmem
based workloads because unlike Anon pages, which are excluded from this
heuristic because they are usually long lived, shmem pages are handled
as a regular page cache.

This doesn't work quite well, unfortunately, if the workload is mostly
backed by shmem (in memory database sitting on 80% of memory) with a
streaming IO in the background (backup - up to 20% of memory).  Anon
inactive list is full of (dirty) shmem pages when watermarks are hit.
Shmem pages are kept in the inactive list (they are referenced) in the
first round and it is hard to reclaim anything else so we reach lower
scanning priorities very quickly which leads to an excessive swap out.

Let's fix this by excluding all swap backed pages (they tend to be long
lived wrt.  the regular page cache anyway) from used-once heuristic and
rather activate them if they are referenced.

The customer's workload is shmem backed database (80% of RAM) and they
are measuring transactions/s with an IO in the background (20%).
Transactions touch more or less random rows in the table.  The
transaction rate fell by a factor of 3 (in the worst case) because of
commit 64574746.  This patch restores the previous numbers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 69256994
...@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page, ...@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
return PAGEREF_RECLAIM; return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;
if (referenced_ptes) { if (referenced_ptes) {
if (PageAnon(page)) if (PageSwapBacked(page))
return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE; return PAGEREF_ACTIVATE;
/* /*
* All mapped pages start out with page table * All mapped pages start out with page table
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