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Andrea Righi 5af2f74f90 mm: swap: properly update readahead statistics in unuse_pte_range()
commit ebc5951eea499314f6fbbde20e295f1345c67330 upstream.

In unuse_pte_range() we blindly swap-in pages without checking if the
swap entry is already present in the swap cache.

By doing this, the hit/miss ratio used by the swap readahead heuristic
is not properly updated and this leads to non-optimal performance during
swapoff.

Tracing the distribution of the readahead size returned by the swap
readahead heuristic during swapoff shows that a small readahead size is
used most of the time as if we had only misses (this happens both with
cluster and vma readahead), for example:

r::swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset):unsigned long:$retval
        COUNT      EVENT
        36948      $retval = 8
        44151      $retval = 4
        49290      $retval = 1
        527771     $retval = 2

Checking if the swap entry is present in the swap cache, instead, allows
to properly update the readahead statistics and the heuristic behaves in a
better way during swapoff, selecting a bigger readahead size:

r::swapin_nr_pages(unsigned long offset):unsigned long:$retval
        COUNT      EVENT
        1618       $retval = 1
        4960       $retval = 2
        41315      $retval = 4
        103521     $retval = 8

In terms of swapoff performance the result is the following:

Testing environment
===================

 - Host:
   CPU: 1.8GHz Intel Core i7-8565U (quad-core, 8MB cache)
   HDD: PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB
   MEM: 16GB

 - Guest (kvm):
   8GB of RAM
   virtio block driver
   16GB swap file on ext4 (/swapfile)

Test case
=========
 - allocate 85% of memory
 - `systemctl hibernate` to force all the pages to be swapped-out to the
   swap file
 - resume the system
 - measure the time that swapoff takes to complete:
   # /usr/bin/time swapoff /swapfile

Result (swapoff time)
======
                  5.6 vanilla   5.6 w/ this patch
                  -----------   -----------------
cluster-readahead      22.09s              12.19s
    vma-readahead      18.20s              15.33s

Conclusion
==========

The specific use case this patch is addressing is to improve swapoff
performance in cloud environments when a VM has been hibernated, resumed
and all the memory needs to be forced back to RAM by disabling swap.

This change allows to better exploits the advantages of the readahead
heuristic during swapoff and this improvement allows to to speed up the
resume process of such VMs.

[andrea.righi@canonical.com: update changelog]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418084705.GA147642@xps-13
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@amazon.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com>
Cc: Kelley Nielsen <kelleynnn@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416180132.GB3352@xps-13
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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block blk-cgroup: fix missing pd_online_fn() while activating policy 2023-02-06 07:52:48 +01:00
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Documentation docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count 2023-02-06 07:52:50 +01:00
drivers nvmem: core: fix cell removal on error 2023-02-22 12:50:28 +01:00
fs Squashfs: fix handling and sanity checking of xattr_ids count 2023-02-22 12:50:28 +01:00
include mm: hugetlb: proc: check for hugetlb shared PMD in /proc/PID/smaps 2023-02-22 12:50:28 +01:00
init init/Kconfig: fix CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_TIED_OUTPUT test with dash 2022-12-08 11:22:59 +01:00
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mm mm: swap: properly update readahead statistics in unuse_pte_range() 2023-02-22 12:50:29 +01:00
net net/x25: Fix to not accept on connected socket 2023-02-22 12:50:26 +01:00
samples samples: vfio-mdev: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in mdpy_fb_probe() 2023-01-18 11:41:26 +01:00
scripts ftrace/scripts: Update the instructions for ftrace-bisect.sh 2023-02-06 07:52:44 +01:00
security tomoyo: fix broken dependency on *.conf.default 2023-02-06 07:52:35 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/via: Avoid potential array out-of-bound in add_secret_dac_path() 2023-02-22 12:50:23 +01:00
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