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David Hildenbrand da10329cb0 virtio-balloon: switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM 
Commit 71994620bb ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker")
changed the behavior when deflation happens automatically.  Instead of
deflating when called by the OOM handler, the shrinker is used.

However, the balloon is not simply some other slab cache that should be
shrunk when under memory pressure.  The shrinker does not have a concept
of priorities yet, so this behavior cannot be configured.  Eventually once
that is in place, we might want to switch back after doing proper testing.

There was a report that this results in undesired side effects when
inflating the balloon to shrink the page cache. [1]
	"When inflating the balloon against page cache (i.e. no free memory
	 remains) vmscan.c will both shrink page cache, but also invoke the
	 shrinkers -- including the balloon's shrinker. So the balloon
	 driver allocates memory which requires reclaim, vmscan gets this
	 memory by shrinking the balloon, and then the driver adds the
	 memory back to the balloon. Basically a busy no-op."

The name "deflate on OOM" makes it pretty clear when deflation should
happen - after other approaches to reclaim memory failed, not while
reclaiming. This allows to minimize the footprint of a guest - memory
will only be taken out of the balloon when really needed.

Keep using the shrinker for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, because
this has no such side effects. Always register the shrinker with
VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT now. We are always allowed to reuse free
pages that are still to be processed by the guest. The hypervisor takes
care of identifying and resolving possible races between processing a
hinting request and the guest reusing a page.

In contrast to pre commit 71994620bb ("virtio_balloon: replace oom
notifier with shrinker"), don't add a module parameter to configure the
number of pages to deflate on OOM. Can be re-added if really needed.
Also, pay attention that leak_balloon() returns the number of 4k pages -
convert it properly in virtio_balloon_oom_notify().

Testing done by Tyler for future reference:
  Test setup: VM with 16 CPU, 64GB RAM. Running Debian 10. We have a 42
  GB file full of random bytes that we continually cat to /dev/null.
  This fills the page cache as the file is read. Meanwhile, we trigger
  the balloon to inflate, with a target size of 53 GB. This setup causes
  the balloon inflation to pressure the page cache as the page cache is
  also trying to grow. Afterwards we shrink the balloon back to zero (so
  total deflate == total inflate).

  Without this patch (kernel 4.19.0-5):
  Inflation never reaches the target until we stop the "cat file >
  /dev/null" process. Total inflation time was 542 seconds. The longest
  period that made no net forward progress was 315 seconds.
    Result of "grep balloon /proc/vmstat" after the test:
    balloon_inflate 154828377
    balloon_deflate 154828377

  With this patch (kernel 5.6.0-rc4+):
  Total inflation duration was 63 seconds. No deflate-queue activity
  occurs when pressuring the page-cache.
    Result of "grep balloon /proc/vmstat" after the test:
    balloon_inflate 12968539
    balloon_deflate 12968539

  Conclusion: This patch fixes the issue.  In the test it reduced
  inflate/deflate activity by 12x, and reduced inflation time by 8.6x.
  But more importantly, if we hadn't killed the "cat file > /dev/null"
  process then, without the patch, the inflation process would never reach
  the target.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-virtualization/msg40863.html

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311135523.18512-2-david@redhat.com
Fixes: 71994620bb ("virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Tyler Sanderson <tysand@google.com>
Tested-by: Tyler Sanderson <tysand@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
arch mm/vma: append unlikely() while testing VMA access permissions 2020-04-07 10:43:38 -07:00
block SCSI misc on 20200402 2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
Documentation mm/page_reporting: add free page reporting documentation 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
drivers virtio-balloon: switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
fs mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
include mm/page_reporting: add budget limit on how many pages can be reported per pass 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
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ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
kernel mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
lib New tracing features: 2020-04-05 10:36:18 -07:00
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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
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    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.