Rik van Riel f0281a00fe mm: workingset: only do workingset activations on reads ... This is a follow-up to http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg101739.html where Andres reported his database workingset being pushed out by the minimum size enforcement of the inactive file list - currently 50% of cache - as well as repeatedly written file pages that are never actually read. Two changes fell out of the discussions. The first change observes that pages that are only ever written don't benefit from caching beyond what the writeback cache does for partial page writes, and so we shouldn't promote them to the active file list where they compete with pages whose cached data is actually accessed repeatedly. This change comes in two patches - one for in-cache write accesses and one for refaults triggered by writes, neither of which should promote a cache page. Second, with the refault detection we don't need to set 50% of the cache aside for used-once cache anymore since we can detect frequently used pages even when they are evicted between accesses. We can allow the active list to be bigger and thus protect a bigger workingset that isn't challenged by streamers. Depending on the access patterns, this can increase major faults during workingset transitions for better performance during stable phases. This patch (of 3): When rewriting a page, the data in that page is replaced with new data. This means that evicting something else from the active file list, in order to cache data that will be replaced by something else, is likely to be a waste of memory. It is better to save the active list for frequently read pages, because reads actually use the data that is in the page. This patch ignores partial writes, because it is unclear whether the complexity of identifying those is worth any potential performance gain obtained from better caching pages that see repeated partial writes at large enough intervals to not get caught by the use-twice promotion code used for the inactive file list. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
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kasan	mm, kasan: fix compilation for CONFIG_SLAB	2016-04-01 17:03:37 -05:00
backing-dev.c	writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definition	2016-03-31 12:26:25 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial	2016-03-17 21:38:27 -07:00
bootmem.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
cleancache.c	cleancache: constify cleancache_ops structure	2016-01-27 09:09:57 -05:00
cma.c	mm/cma.c: suppress warning	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
cma.h
cma_debug.c
compaction.c	mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
debug.c	mm: introduce page reference manipulation functions	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c	mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
dmapool.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
early_ioremap.c	mm/early_ioremap: use offset_in_page macro	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
fadvise.c	mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
failslab.c	mm: fault-inject take over bootstrap kmem_cache check	2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
filemap.c	mm: workingset: only do workingset activations on reads	2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
frame_vector.c	mm/gup: Switch all callers of get_user_pages() to not pass tsk/mm	2016-02-16 10:11:12 +01:00
frontswap.c
gup.c	Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2016-04-14 19:31:34 -07:00
highmem.c	mm/highmem: make nr_free_highpages() handles all highmem zones by itself	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
huge_memory.c	huge mm: move_huge_pmd does not need new_vma	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
hugetlb.c	mm/hugetlb: add same zone check in pfn_range_valid_gigantic()	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c	mm: make compound_head() robust	2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c	hwpoison: use page_cgroup_ino for filtering by memcg	2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h	mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig	memory_hotplug: introduce CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Kconfig.debug	mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemcheck.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak.c	mm: coalesce split strings	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
ksm.c	ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item	2016-05-12 15:52:50 -07:00
list_lru.c	mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG	2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
maccess.c	mm/maccess.c: actually return -EFAULT from strncpy_from_unsafe	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
madvise.c	mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
Makefile	mm, kasan: SLAB support	2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
memblock.c	mm: coalesce split strings	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
memcontrol.c	oom, oom_reaper: try to reap tasks which skip regular OOM killer path	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
memory-failure.c	mm/memory-failure: fix race with compound page split/merge	2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
memory.c	mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults	2016-05-12 15:52:50 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	memory_hotplug: introduce memhp_default_state= command line parameter	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
mempool.c	mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API	2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
memtest.c	memtest: remove unused header files	2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
migrate.c	mm: use __SetPageSwapBacked and dont ClearPageSwapBacked	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
mincore.c	mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
mlock.c	mm: fix mlock accouting	2016-01-21 17:20:51 -08:00
mm_init.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmap.c	mm/mmap: kill hook arch_rebalance_pgtables()	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
mmu_context.c	mm/mmu_context, sched/core: Fix mmu_context.h assumption	2016-04-28 11:44:19 +02:00
mmu_notifier.c	fix Christoph's email addresses	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmzone.c	mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
mprotect.c	mm/mprotect.c: don't imply PROT_EXEC on non-exec fs	2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
mremap.c	huge pagecache: extend mremap pmd rmap lockout to files	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
msync.c	mm/msync: use offset_in_page macro	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
nobootmem.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
nommu.c	Merge branch 'mm-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2016-04-14 19:31:34 -07:00
oom_kill.c	mm, oom_reaper: clear TIF_MEMDIE for all tasks queued for oom_reaper	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
page-writeback.c	mm/writeback: correct dirty page calculation for highmem	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
page_alloc.c	mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
page_counter.c	mm: page_counter: let page_counter_try_charge() return bool	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
page_ext.c	mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning	2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
page_idle.c	mm: add page_check_address_transhuge() helper	2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
page_io.c	Merge branch 'work.preadv2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs	2016-05-17 15:05:23 -07:00
page_isolation.c	mm/memory_hotplug: add comment to some functions related to memory hotplug	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
page_owner.c	mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
page_poison.c	mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning	2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
pagewalk.c	thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd()	2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
percpu-km.c	mm: percpu: use pr_fmt to prefix output	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c	mm: percpu: use pr_fmt to prefix output	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c	mm/thp/migration: switch from flush_tlb_range to flush_pmd_tlb_range	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
process_vm_access.c	mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote()	2016-02-16 10:04:09 +01:00
quicklist.c	fix Christoph's email addresses	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
readahead.c	mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: use __SetPageSwapBacked and dont ClearPageSwapBacked	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
shmem.c	tmpfs: mem_cgroup charge fault to vm_mm not current mm	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
slab.c	include/linux/nodemask.h: create next_node_in() helper	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
slab.h	mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API	2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
slab_common.c	mm, kasan: add GFP flags to KASAN API	2016-03-25 16:37:42 -07:00
slob.c	mm: slab: free kmem_cache_node after destroy sysfs file	2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
slub.c	mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
sparse.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
swap.c	thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush	2016-04-28 19:34:04 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c	mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
swap_state.c	mm: use __SetPageSwapBacked and dont ClearPageSwapBacked	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
swapfile.c	mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults	2016-05-12 15:52:50 -07:00
truncate.c	mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
userfaultfd.c	mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros	2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
util.c	mm: uninline page_mapped()	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
vmacache.c	mm/vmacache: inline vmacache_valid_mm()	2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
vmalloc.c	mm/vmalloc: use PAGE_ALIGNED() to check PAGE_SIZE alignment	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
vmpressure.c	mm/vmpressure.c: fix subtree pressure detection	2016-02-03 08:28:43 -08:00
vmscan.c	mm: update_lru_size do the __mod_zone_page_state	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths	2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
workingset.c	mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware	2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
zbud.c	mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry()	2016-01-15 11:40:52 -08:00
zpool.c	mm: zsmalloc: constify struct zs_pool name	2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zsmalloc.c	zsmalloc: fix zs_can_compact() integer overflow	2016-05-09 17:40:59 -07:00
zswap.c	mm/zswap: provide unique zpool name	2016-05-05 17:38:53 -07:00