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Yang Shi 8fd2e0b505 mm: swap: check if swap backing device is congested or not
Swap readahead would read in a few pages regardless if the underlying
device is busy or not.  It may incur long waiting time if the device is
congested, and it may also exacerbate the congestion.

Use inode_read_congested() to check if the underlying device is busy or
not like what file page readahead does.  Get inode from
swap_info_struct.

Although we can add inode information in swap_address_space
(address_space->host), it may lead some unexpected side effect, i.e.  it
may break mapping_cap_account_dirty().  Using inode from
swap_info_struct seems simple and good enough.

Just does the check in vma_cluster_readahead() since
swap_vma_readahead() is just used for non-rotational device which much
less likely has congestion than traditional HDD.

Although swap slots may be consecutive on swap partition, it still may
be fragmented on swap file.  This check would help to reduce excessive
stall for such case.

The test with page_fault1 of will-it-scale (sometimes tracing may just
show runtest.py that is the wrapper script of page_fault1), which
basically launches NR_CPU threads to generate 128MB anonymous pages for
each thread, on my virtual machine with congested HDD shows long tail
latency is reduced significantly.

Without the patch
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.311706: funcgraph_entry:      #57377.796 us |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.369103: funcgraph_entry:        5.642us   |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.369119: funcgraph_entry:      #1289.592 us |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.370411: funcgraph_entry:        4.957us   |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.370419: funcgraph_entry:        1.940us   |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.378847: funcgraph_entry:      #1411.385 us |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.380262: funcgraph_entry:        3.916us   |  do_swap_page();
 page_fault1_thr-1490  [023]   129.380275: funcgraph_entry:      #4287.751 us |  do_swap_page();

With the patch
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.925911: funcgraph_entry:      #9870.146 us |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935785: funcgraph_entry:        9.802us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935799: funcgraph_entry:        3.551us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935806: funcgraph_entry:        2.142us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935853: funcgraph_entry:        6.938us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935864: funcgraph_entry:        3.765us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935871: funcgraph_entry:        3.600us   |  do_swap_page();
      runtest.py-1417  [020]   301.935878: funcgraph_entry:        7.202us   |  do_swap_page();

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code cleanup]
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: add comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bbc7bda7-62d0-df1a-23ef-d369e865bdca@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1546543673-108536-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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arch arm64/mm: enable HugeTLB migration for contiguous bit HugeTLB pages 2019-03-05 21:07:15 -08:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-05 09:09:55 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0 2019-03-03 15:21:29 -08:00
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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.