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mm, swap: avoid over reclaim of full clusters
When running low on usable slots, cluster allocator will try to reclaim the full clusters aggressively to reclaim HAS_CACHE slots. This guarantees that as long as there are any usable slots, HAS_CACHE or not, the swap device will be usable and workload won't go OOM early. Before the cluster allocator, swap allocator fails easily if device is filled up with reclaimable HAS_CACHE slots. Which can be easily reproduced with following simple program: #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <linux/mman.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #define SIZE 8192UL * 1024UL * 1024UL int main(int argc, char **argv) { long tmp; char *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); memset(p, 0, SIZE); madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); for (unsigned long i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) tmp += p[i]; getchar(); /* Pause */ return 0; } Setup an 8G non ramdisk swap, the first run of the program will swapout 8G ram successfully. But run same program again after the first run paused, the second run can't swapout all 8G memory as now half of the swap device is pinned by HAS_CACHE. There was a random scan in the old allocator that may reclaim part of the HAS_CACHE by luck, but it's unreliable. The new allocator's added reclaim of full clusters when device is low on usable slots. But when multiple CPUs are seeing the device is low on usable slots at the same time, they ran into a thundering herd problem. This is an observable problem on large machine with mass parallel workload, as full cluster reclaim is slower on large swap device and higher number of CPUs will also make things worse. Testing using a 128G ZRAM on a 48c96t system. When the swap device is very close to full (eg. 124G / 128G), running build linux kernel with make -j96 in a 1G memory cgroup will hung (not a softlockup though) spinning in full cluster reclaim for about ~5min before go OOM. To solve this, split the full reclaim into two parts: - Instead of do a synchronous aggressively reclaim when device is low, do only one aggressively reclaim when device is strictly full with a kworker. This still ensures in worst case the device won't be unusable because of HAS_CACHE slots. - To avoid allocation (especially higher order) suffer from HAS_CACHE filling up clusters and kworker not responsive enough, do one synchronous scan every time the free list is drained, and only scan one cluster. This is kind of similar to the random reclaim before, keeps the full clusters rotated and has a minimal latency. This should provide a fair reclaim strategy suitable for most workloads. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241022175512.10398-1-ryncsn@gmail.com Fixes: 2cacbdf ("mm: swap: add a adaptive full cluster cache reclaim") Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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