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...Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. A new page state "volatile" is introduced that is used for clean, uptodate page cache pages. The host can choose to discard volatile pages as part of its vmscan operation instead of writing them to the hosts paging device. This greatly reduces the i/o needed by the host if it gets under memory pressure. The guest system doesn't notice that a volatile page is gone until it tries to acc...

...Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> From: Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu> [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. A new page state "volatile" is introduced that is used for clean, uptodate page cache pages. The host can choose to discard volatile pages as part of its vmscan operation instead of writing them to the hosts paging device. This greatly reduces the i/o needed by the host if it gets under memory pressure. The guest system doesn't notice that a volatile page is gone until it tries to acc...

...Thanks for the review! >From ad4157e98651a2d18fd0a4ae90d1d9f609aab314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:34:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH v6r2] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. e...

...Thanks for the review! >From ad4157e98651a2d18fd0a4ae90d1d9f609aab314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:34:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH v6r2] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. e...

Recently, I got many reports about perfermance degradation in embedded system(Android mobile phone, webOS TV and so on) and easy fork fail. The problem was fragmentation caused by zram and GPU driver mainly. With memory pressure, their pages were spread out all of pageblock and it cannot be migrated with current compaction algorithm which supports only LRU pages. In the end, compaction cannot work well so reclaimer shrinks all of working set pages. It made system very slow and even to fail to fork easily which requires order-[2 or 3] a...

Recently, I got many reports about perfermance degradation in embedded system(Android mobile phone, webOS TV and so on) and easy fork fail. The problem was fragmentation caused by zram and GPU driver mainly. With memory pressure, their pages were spread out all of pageblock and it cannot be migrated with current compaction algorithm which supports only LRU pages. In the end, compaction cannot work well so reclaimer shrinks all of working set pages. It made system very slow and even to fail to fork easily which requires order-[2 or 3] a...

From: Gioh Kim <gurugio at hanmail.net> Hello, This series try to enable migration of non-LRU pages, such as driver's page. My ARM-based platform occured severe fragmentation problem after long-term (several days) test. Sometimes even order-3 page allocation failed. It has memory size 512MB ~ 1024MB. 30% ~ 40% memory is consumed for graphic processing and 20~30 memory is reserved for zram....

From: Gioh Kim <gurugio at hanmail.net> Hello, This series try to enable migration of non-LRU pages, such as driver's page. My ARM-based platform occured severe fragmentation problem after long-term (several days) test. Sometimes even order-3 page allocation failed. It has memory size 512MB ~ 1024MB. 30% ~ 40% memory is consumed for graphic processing and 20~30 memory is reserved for zram....

We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. e...

Now, VM has a feature to migrate non-lru movable pages so balloon doesn't need custom migration hooks in migrate.c and compact.c. Instead, this patch implements page->mapping ->{isolate|migrate|putback} functions. With that, we could remove hooks for ballooning in general migration functions and make balloon compaction simple. Cc: virtualiz...

...-48,6 +48,7 @@ > #include <linux/migrate.h> > #include <linux/gfp.h> > #include <linux/err.h> > +#include <linux/fs.h> > > /* > * Balloon device information descriptor. > @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ struct balloon_dev_info { > struct list_head pages; /* Pages enqueued & handled to Host */ > int (*migratepage)(struct balloon_dev_info *, struct page *newpage, > struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode); > + struct address_space *mapping; > }; > > extern struct page *balloon_p...

...-48,6 +48,7 @@ > #include <linux/migrate.h> > #include <linux/gfp.h> > #include <linux/err.h> > +#include <linux/fs.h> > > /* > * Balloon device information descriptor. > @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ struct balloon_dev_info { > struct list_head pages; /* Pages enqueued & handled to Host */ > int (*migratepage)(struct balloon_dev_info *, struct page *newpage, > struct page *page, enum migrate_mode mode); > + struct address_space *mapping; > }; > > extern struct page *balloon_p...

We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. e...

Recently, I got many reports about perfermance degradation in embedded system(Android mobile phone, webOS TV and so on) and easy fork fail. The problem was fragmentation caused by zram and GPU driver mainly. With memory pressure, their pages were spread out all of pageblock and it cannot be migrated with current compaction algorithm which supports only LRU pages. In the end, compaction cannot work well so reclaimer shrinks all of working set pages. It made system very slow and even to fail to fork easily which requires order-[2 or 3] a...

Recently, I got many reports about perfermance degradation in embedded system(Android mobile phone, webOS TV and so on) and easy fork fail. The problem was fragmentation caused by zram and GPU driver mainly. With memory pressure, their pages were spread out all of pageblock and it cannot be migrated with current compaction algorithm which supports only LRU pages. In the end, compaction cannot work well so reclaimer shrinks all of working set pages. It made system very slow and even to fail to fork easily which requires order-[2 or 3] a...

Greetings, after Carsten pitched CMM2 on the kvm mini summit here is a repost of version 5 of the guest page hinting patches. The code is still the same but has been adapted to the latest git level. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

Greetings, after Carsten pitched CMM2 on the kvm mini summit here is a repost of version 5 of the guest page hinting patches. The code is still the same but has been adapted to the latest git level. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

Now, VM has a feature to migrate non-lru movable pages so balloon doesn't need custom migration hooks in migrate.c and compact.c. Instead, this patch implements page->mapping ->{isolate|migrate|putback} functions. With that, we could remove hooks for ballooning in general migration functions and make balloon compaction simple. Cc: virtualiz...

...d v7 rebased on recent mmotm. >From b14aaeeeeb2d3ac0702c7b2eec36409d74406d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:34:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration We have allowed migration for only LRU pages until now and it was enough to make high-order pages. But recently, embedded system(e.g., webOS, android) uses lots of non-movable pages(e.g., zram, GPU memory) so we have seen several reports about troubles of small high-order allocation. For fixing the problem, there were several efforts (e,g,. e...

...is now implemented via the page_free_discarded hook and architecture specific code. - PG_state_change page flag has been replaced with architecture specficic primitives. s390 now uses PG_arch_1 and avoids to waste another page flag (it still uses two additional bits). - Add calls to make pages volatile when pages are moved from the active to the inactive list and set max_buffer_heads to zero to force a try_to_release_page call to get more page into volatile state. - remap_file_pages now works with guest page hinting, although the discard of a page contained in a non-linear m...