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authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>2022-09-18 02:00:08 -0600
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-09-26 19:46:10 -0700
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mm: multi-gen LRU: thrashing prevention
Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as requested by many desktop users [1]. When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds from getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered if this working set cannot be kept in memory. Based on the average human detectable lag (~100ms), N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing. Larger values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of premature OOM kills. Compared with the size-based approach [2], this time-based approach has the following advantages: 1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications and memory sizes. 2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ydza%2FzXKY9ATRoh6@google.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20101028191523.GA14972@google.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-12-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net> Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu> Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru> Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu> Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works> Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 95c58c7fbdff6..87347945270bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -422,6 +422,8 @@ struct lru_gen_struct {
unsigned long max_seq;
/* the eviction increments the oldest generation numbers */
unsigned long min_seq[ANON_AND_FILE];
+ /* the birth time of each generation in jiffies */
+ unsigned long timestamps[MAX_NR_GENS];
/* the multi-gen LRU lists, lazily sorted on eviction */
struct list_head lists[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];
/* the multi-gen LRU sizes, eventually consistent */