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Add vma_has_recency() to indicate whether a VMA may exhibit temporal locality that the LRU algorithm relies on. This function returns false for VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ or VM_RAND_READ. While the former flag indicates linear access, i.e., a special case of spatial locality, both flags indicate a lack of temporal locality, i.e., the reuse of an area within a relatively small duration. "Recency" is chosen over "locality" to avoid confusion between temporal and spatial localities. Before this patch, the active/inactive LRU only ignored the accessed bit from VMAs marked by VM_SEQ_READ. After this patch, the active/inactive LRU and MGLRU share the same logic: they both ignore the accessed bit if vma_has_recency() returns false. For the active/inactive LRU, the following fio test showed a [6, 8]% increase in IOPS when randomly accessing mapped files under memory pressure. kb=$(awk '/MemTotal/ { print $2 }' /proc/meminfo) kb=$((kb - 8*1024*1024)) modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=$kb dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 bs=1M mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram0 mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/ swapoff -a fio --name=test --directory=/mnt/ --ioengine=mmap --numjobs=8 \ --size=8G --rw=randrw --time_based --runtime=10m \ --group_reporting The discussion that led to this patch is here [1]. Additional test results are available in that thread. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y31s%2FK8T85jh05wH@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221230215252.2628425-1-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.