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Commit f4c4a3f4 authored by Huang Ying's avatar Huang Ying Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: free idle swap cache page after COW

With commit 09854ba9 ("mm: do_wp_page() simplification"), after COW,
the idle swap cache page (neither the page nor the corresponding swap
entry is mapped by any process) will be left in the LRU list, even if it's
in the active list or the head of the inactive list.  So, the page
reclaimer may take quite some overhead to reclaim these actually unused
pages.

To help the page reclaiming, in this patch, after COW, the idle swap cache
page will be tried to be freed.  To avoid to introduce much overhead to
the hot COW code path,

a) there's almost zero overhead for non-swap case via checking
   PageSwapCache() firstly.

b) the page lock is acquired via trylock only.

To test the patch, we used pmbench memory accessing benchmark with
working-set larger than available memory on a 2-socket Intel server with a
NVMe SSD as swap device.  Test results shows that the pmbench score
increases up to 23.8% with the decreased size of swap cache and swapin
throughput.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601053143.1380078-1-ying.huang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>	[use free_swap_cache()]
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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