linux/mm
Konstantin Khlebnikov 34dbc67a64 vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages
Commit 6457474624 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
greatly decreases lifetime of single-used mapped file pages.
Unfortunately it also decreases life time of all shared mapped file
pages.  Because after commit bf3f3bc5e7 ("mm: don't mark_page_accessed
in fault path") page-fault handler does not mark page active or even
referenced.

Thus page_check_references() activates file page only if it was used twice
while it stays in inactive list, meanwhile it activates anon pages after
first access.  Inactive list can be small enough, this way reclaimer can
accidentally throw away any widely used page if it wasn't used twice in
short period.

After this patch page_check_references() also activate file mapped page at
first inactive list scan if this page is already used multiple times via
several ptes.

I found this while trying to fix degragation in rhel6 (~2.6.32) from rhel5
(~2.6.18).  There a complete mess with >100 web/mail/spam/ftp containers,
they share all their files but there a lot of anonymous pages: ~500mb
shared file mapped memory and 15-20Gb non-shared anonymous memory.  In
this situation major-pagefaults are very costly, because all containers
share the same page.  In my load kernel created a disproportionate
pressure on the file memory, compared with the anonymous, they equaled
only if I raise swappiness up to 150 =)

These patches actually wasn't helped a lot in my problem, but I saw
noticable (10-20 times) reduce in count and average time of
major-pagefault in file-mapped areas.

Actually both patches are fixes for commit v2.6.33-5448-g6457474, because
it was aimed at one scenario (singly used pages), but it breaks the logic
in other scenarios (shared and/or executable pages)

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
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backing-dev.c freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop() 2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c convert 'memory' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem 2011-12-21 14:48:43 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pages 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
filemap.c should_remove_suid(): inode->i_mode is umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:14 -05:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
hugetlb.c Merge branch 'driver-core-next' into Linux 3.2 2012-01-06 11:42:52 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
ksm.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memblock.c memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator 2011-12-08 10:22:09 -08:00
memcontrol.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-01-09 14:46:52 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: refix mbind_range() vma issue 2011-12-29 16:31:57 -08:00
mempool.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
migrate.c mm/migrate.c: pair unlock_page() and lock_page() when migrating huge pages 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c thp: mremap support and TLB optimization 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
nommu.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
oom_kill.c Merge branch 'master' into pm-sleep 2011-12-21 21:59:45 +01:00
page_alloc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-11-02 16:07:00 -07:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: make determine_dirtyable_memory static again 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix chunk range calculation 2011-11-22 08:09:46 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: fix per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() handling of non-page-aligned addresses 2011-12-15 11:41:40 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
shmem.c vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
slab.c tracing/mm: Move include of trace/events/kmem.h out of header into slab.c 2012-01-09 14:19:33 -08:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2012-01-09 13:08:28 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
swap_state.c fs: move code out of buffer.c 2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
swap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
swapfile.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
util.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
vmalloc.c Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linus 2012-01-05 13:24:33 +00:00
vmscan.c vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat 2011-10-31 17:30:51 -07:00