Refactor ZFS ARC reclaim logic to be more VM cooperative
MFC r270861:
Ensure that ZFS ARC free memory checks include cached pages
MFC r272483:
Refactor ZFS ARC reclaim checks and limits
Sponsored by: Multiplay
Back in the days when the kernel was single threaded, testing
"vm_paging_target() > 0" was a reasonable way of determining if the
inactive queue scan met its target. However, now that other threads
can be allocating pages while the inactive queue scan is running, it's
an unreliable method. The effect of it being unreliable is that we
can start swapping out processes when we didn't intend to.
This issue has existed since the kernel was multithreaded, but the
changes to the inactive queue target in 10.0-RELEASE have made its
effects visible.
This change introduces a more direct method for determining if the
inactive queue scan met its target that is not affected by the actions
of other threads.
Prior to r254304, a separate function, vm_pageout_page_stats(), was used
to periodically update the reference status of the active pages. This
function was called, instead of vm_pageout_scan(), when memory was not
scarce. The objective was to provide up to date reference status for
active pages in case memory did become scarce and active pages needed to
be deactivated.
The active page queue scan performed by vm_pageout_page_stats() was
virtually identical to that performed by vm_pageout_scan(), and so r254304
eliminated vm_pageout_page_stats(). Instead, vm_pageout_scan() is
called with the parameter "pass" set to zero. The intention was that when
pass is zero, vm_pageout_scan() would only scan the active queue.
However, the variable page_shortage can still be greater than zero when
memory is not scarce and vm_pageout_scan() is called with pass equal to
zero. Consequently, the inactive queue may be scanned and dirty pages
laundered even though that was not intended by r254304. This revision
fixes that.
Correctly update the count of stuck pages, "addl_page_shortage", in
vm_pageout_scan(). There were missing increments in two less common
cases.
Don't conflate the count of stuck pages and the pageout deficit provided
by vm_page_alloc{,_contig}().
Handle held pages consistently in the inactive queue scan. In the more
common case, we did not move the page to the tail of the queue. Whereas,
in the less common case, we did. There's no particular reason to move
the page in the less common case, so remove it.
Perform the calculation of the page shortage for the active queue scan a
little earlier, before the active queue lock is acquired. The correctness
of this calculation doesn't depend on the active queue lock being held.
Eliminate a redundant variable, "pcount". Use the more descriptive
variable, "maxscan", in its place.
Apply a few nearby style fixes, e.g., eliminate stray whitespace and
excess parentheses.
In sys/vm/vm_pageout.c, since vm_pageout_worker() takes a void * as
argument, cast the incoming 0 argument to void *, to silence a warning
from clang 3.4 ("expression which evaluates to zero treated as a null
pointer constant of type 'void *' [-Wnon-literal-null-conversion]").
necessary since we do not free or cache the page from active anymore.
Document the one possible race that is harmless.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Discussed with: alc
shown to negatively impact some workloads and the goal is only to
eliminate worst case behaviors for very long periods of paging
inactivity. Eventually we should determine a more complex scaling
factor for this feature.
- Rate limit low memory callback handlers to limit thrashing. Set the
default to 10 seconds.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
maintaining better LRU of active pages.
- Change v_free_target to include the quantity previously represented by
v_cache_min so we don't need to add them together everywhere we use them.
- Add a pageout_wakeup_thresh that sets the free page count trigger for
waking the page daemon. Set this 10% above v_free_min so we wakeup before
any phase transitions in vm users.
- Adjust down v_free_target now that we're willing to accept more pagedaemon
wakeups. This means we process fewer pages in one iteration as well,
leading to shorter lock hold times and less overall disruption.
- Eliminate vm_pageout_page_stats(). This was a minor variation on the
PQ_ACTIVE segment of the normal pageout daemon. Instead we now process
1 / vm_pageout_update_period pages every second. This causes us to visit
the whole active list every 60 seconds. Previously we would only maintain
the active LRU when we were short on pages which would mean it could be
woefully out of date.
Reviewed by: alc (slight variant of this)
Discussed with: alc, kib, jhb
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
additional information, when the page is guaranteed to not belong to a
paging queue. Usually, this results in a lot of type casts which make
reasoning about the code correctness harder.
Sometimes m->object is used instead of pageq, which could cause real
and confusing bugs if non-NULL m->object is leaked. See r141955 and
r253140 for examples.
Change the pageq member into a union containing explicitly-typed
members. Use them instead of type-punning or abusing m->object in x86
pmaps, uma and vm_page_alloc_contig().
Requested and reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Unify the 2 concept into a real, minimal, sxlock where the shared
acquisition represent the soft busy and the exclusive acquisition
represent the hard busy.
The old VPO_WANTED mechanism becames the hard-path for this new lock
and it becomes per-page rather than per-object.
The vm_object lock becames an interlock for this functionality:
it can be held in both read or write mode.
However, if the vm_object lock is held in read mode while acquiring
or releasing the busy state, the thread owner cannot make any
assumption on the busy state unless it is also busying it.
Also:
- Add a new flag to directly shared busy pages while vm_page_alloc
and vm_page_grab are being executed. This will be very helpful
once these functions happen under a read object lock.
- Move the swapping sleep into its own per-object flag
The KPI is heavilly changed this is why the version is bumped.
It is very likely that some VM ports users will need to change
their own code.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with: alc
Reviewed by: jeff, kib
Tested by: gavin, bapt (older version)
Tested by: pho, scottl
into threads each processing queue in a single domain. The structure
of the pagedaemons and queues is kept intact, most of the changes come
from the need for code to find an owning page queue for given page,
calculated from the segment containing the page.
The tie between NUMA domain and pagedaemon thread/pagequeue split is
rather arbitrary, the multithreaded daemon could be allowed for the
single-domain machines, or one domain might be split into several page
domains, to further increase concurrency.
Right now, each pagedaemon thread tries to reach the global target,
precalculated at the start of the pass. This is not optimal, since it
could cause excessive page deactivation and freeing. The code should
be changed to re-check the global page deficit state in the loop after
some number of iterations.
The pagedaemons reach the quorum before starting the OOM, since one
thread inability to meet the target is normal for split queues. Only
when all pagedaemons fail to produce enough reusable pages, OOM is
started by single selected thread.
Launder is modified to take into account the segments layout with
regard to the region for which cleaning is performed.
Based on the preliminary patch by jeff, sponsored by EMC / Isilon
Storage Division.
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Don't short-circuit aging tests for unmapped objects. This biases
against unmapped file pages and transient mappings.
- Always honor PGA_REFERENCED. We can now use this after soft busying
to lazily restart the LRU.
- Don't transition directly from active to cached bypassing the inactive
queue. This frees recently used data much too early.
- Rename actcount to act_delta to be more consistent with use and meaning.
Reviewed by: kib, alc
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
per-page lock rather than vm_object lock, without any further overhead.
Make the formal switch.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by: alc
Tested by: pho
* VM_OBJECT_LOCK and VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK are mapped to write operations
* VM_OBJECT_SLEEP() is introduced as a general purpose primitve to
get a sleep operation using a VM_OBJECT_LOCK() as protection
* The approach must bear with vm_pager.h namespace pollution so many
files require including directly rwlock.h
similar changes had to be made in various places throughout the machine-
independent virtual memory layer to support the new vm object type.
However, in most of these places, it's actually not the type of the vm
object that matters to us but instead certain attributes of its pages.
For example, OBJT_DEVICE, OBJT_MGTDEVICE, and OBJT_SG objects contain
fictitious pages. In other words, in most of these places, we were
testing the vm object's type to determine if it contained fictitious (or
unmanaged) pages.
To both simplify the code in these places and make the addition of future
vm object types easier, this change introduces two new vm object flags
that describe attributes of the vm object's pages, specifically, whether
they are fictitious or unmanaged.
Reviewed and tested by: kib
the call to pmap_remove_all() within vm_page_cache() is usually redundant.
This change eliminates that call to pmap_remove_all() and introduces a
call to pmap_remove_all() before vm_page_cache() in the one place where
it didn't already exist.
When iterating over a paging queue, if the object containing the current
page has a zero reference count, then the page can't have any managed
mappings. So, a call to pmap_remove_all() is pointless.
Change a panic() call in vm_page_cache() to a KASSERT().
MFC after: 6 weeks
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.
The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.
Conducted and reviewed by: attilio
Tested by: pho
vm_page_sleep(). vm_page_sleep() is no longer called with this lock
held.
Eliminate assertions that the page queues lock is NOT held. These
assertions won't translate well to having distinct locks on the active
and inactive page queues, and they really aren't that useful.
MFC after: 3 weeks
queues lock is acquired before the page lock is released, there is no
guarantee that the page will still be in that same page queue when
vm_page_requeue() is called.
Reported by: pho
In collaboration with: kib
MFC after: 3 days
ago, sleeping on busy pages in vm_pageout_launder() made sense. The call
to vm_pageout_flush() specified asynchronous I/O and sleeping on busy pages
blocked vm_pageout_launder() until the flush had completed. However, in
CVS revision 1.35 of vm/vm_contig.c, the call to vm_pageout_flush() was
changed to request synchronous I/O, but the sleep on busy pages was not
removed.
them alone.
Process the act_count updates for the held pages in the vm_pageout
loop over the inactive queue, instead of refusing to do anything with
such page.
Clarify the intent of the addl_page_shortage counter and change its
use for pages which are not processed in the loop according to the
description.
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
inactive queue, unless busy page is found.
Dropping the mutex often should allow the other lock acquires to
proceed without waiting for whole inactive scan to finish. On machines
with lot of physical memory scan often need to iterate a lot before it
finishes or finds a page which requires laundring, causing high
latency for other lock waiters.
Suggested and reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 3 weeks
layer, but it is read directly by the MI VM layer. This change introduces
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in order to completely encapsulate all direct
access to PGA_WRITEABLE in the pmap layer.
Aesthetics aside, I am making this change because amd64 will likely begin
using an alternative method to track write mappings, and having
pmap_page_is_write_mapped() in place allows me to make such a change
without further modification to the MI VM layer.
As an added bonus, tidy up some nearby comments concerning page flags.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 6 weeks
if the filesystem performed short write and we are skipping the page
due to this.
Propogate write error from the pager back to the callers of
vm_pageout_flush(). Report the failure to write a page from the
requested range as the FALSE return value from vm_object_page_clean(),
and propagate it back to msync(2) to return EIO to usermode.
While there, convert the clearobjflags variable in the
vm_object_page_clean() and arguments of the helper functions to
boolean.
PR: kern/165927
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 2 weeks
flags field. Updates to the atomic flags are performed using the atomic
ops on the containing word, do not require any vm lock to be held, and
are non-blocking. The vm_page_aflag_set(9) and vm_page_aflag_clear(9)
functions are provided to modify afalgs.
Document the changes to flags field to only require the page lock.
Introduce vm_page_reference(9) function to provide a stable KPI and
KBI for filesystems like tmpfs and zfs which need to mark a page as
referenced.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Tested by: marius, flo (sparc64); andreast (powerpc, powerpc64)
Approved by: re (bz)
won't happen before 9.0. This commit adds "#ifdef RACCT" around all the
"PROC_LOCK(p); racct_whatever(p, ...); PROC_UNLOCK(p)" instances, in order
to avoid useless locking/unlocking in kernels built without "options RACCT".
