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Linus Torvalds
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df668a5fe4 |
for-5.14/block-2021-06-29
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Mike Rapoport
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48d9f3355a |
docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
Remove description of DISCONTIGMEM from the "Memory Models" document and update VM sysctl description so that it won't mention DISCONIGMEM. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-8-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Mel Gorman
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74f4482209 |
mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
This introduces a new sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction. It is
similar to the old vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction. The old sysctl increased
both pcp->batch and pcp->high with the higher pcp->high potentially
reducing zone->lock contention. However, the higher pcp->batch value also
potentially increased allocation latency while the PCP was refilled. This
sysctl only adjusts pcp->high so that zone->lock contention is potentially
reduced but allocation latency during a PCP refill remains the same.
# grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
high: 649
batch: 63
# sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=8
# grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
high: 35071
batch: 63
# sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=64
high: 4383
batch: 63
# sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=0
high: 649
batch: 63
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix documentation]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210528151010.GQ30378@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.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>
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Mel Gorman
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bbbecb35a4 |
mm/page_alloc: delete vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction
Patch series "Calculate pcp->high based on zone sizes and active CPUs", v2. The per-cpu page allocator (PCP) is meant to reduce contention on the zone lock but the sizing of batch and high is archaic and neither takes the zone size into account or the number of CPUs local to a zone. With larger zones and more CPUs per node, the contention is getting worse. Furthermore, the fact that vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction adjusts both batch and high values means that the sysctl can reduce zone lock contention but also increase allocation latencies. This series disassociates pcp->high from pcp->batch and then scales pcp->high based on the size of the local zone with limited impact to reclaim and accounting for active CPUs but leaves pcp->batch static. It also adapts the number of pages that can be on the pcp list based on recent freeing patterns. The motivation is partially to adjust to larger memory sizes but is also driven by the fact that large batches of page freeing via release_pages() often shows zone contention as a major part of the problem. Another is a bug report based on an older kernel where a multi-terabyte process can takes several minutes to exit. A workaround was to use vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction to increase the pcp->high value but testing indicated that a production workload could not use the same values because of an increase in allocation latencies. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this test case myself as the multi-terabyte machines are in active use but it should alleviate the problem. The series aims to address both and partially acts as a pre-requisite. pcp only works with order-0 which is useless for SLUB (when using high orders) and THP (unconditionally). To store high-order pages on PCP, the pcp->high values need to be increased first. This patch (of 6): The vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction is used to increase the batch and high limits for the per-cpu page allocator (PCP). The intent behind the sysctl is to reduce zone lock acquisition when allocating/freeing pages but it has a problem. While it can decrease contention, it can also increase latency on the allocation side due to unreasonably large batch sizes. This leads to games where an administrator adjusts percpu_pagelist_fraction on the fly to work around contention and allocation latency problems. This series aims to alleviate the problems with zone lock contention while avoiding the allocation-side latency problems. For the purposes of review, it's easier to remove this sysctl now and reintroduce a similar sysctl later in the series that deals only with pcp->high. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.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> |
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zhangyi (F)
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51fd43e280 |
block_dump: remove comments in docs
Now block_dump feature is gone, remove all comments in docs. Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210313030146.2882027-4-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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Dave Hansen
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519983645a |
mm/vmscan: restore zone_reclaim_mode ABI
I went to go add a new RECLAIM_* mode for the zone_reclaim_mode sysctl.
Like a good kernel developer, I also went to go update the
documentation. I noticed that the bits in the documentation didn't
match the bits in the #defines.
The VM never explicitly checks the RECLAIM_ZONE bit. The bit is,
however implicitly checked when checking 'node_reclaim_mode==0'. The
RECLAIM_ZONE #define was removed in a cleanup. That, by itself is fine.
But, when the bit was removed (bit 0) the _other_ bit locations also got
changed. That's not OK because the bit values are documented to mean
one specific thing. Users surely do not expect the meaning to change
from kernel to kernel.
The end result is that if someone had a script that did:
sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1
it would have gone from enabling node reclaim for clean unmapped pages
to writing out pages during node reclaim after the commit in question.
That's not great.
Put the bits back the way they were and add a comment so something like
this is a bit harder to do again. Update the documentation to make it
clear that the first bit is ignored.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210219172555.FF0CDF23@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes:
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Linus Torvalds
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71c5f03154 |
A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes.
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Fengfei Xi
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c635b0cea6 |
docs: admin-guide: Fix default value of max_map_count in sysctl/vm.rst
Since the default value of sysctl_max_map_count is defined as
DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT from mm/util.c
int sysctl_max_map_count __read_mostly = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT;
DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT is defined as 65530 (65535-5) in include/linux/mm.h
#define MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN (5)
#define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT (USHRT_MAX - MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN)
Signed-off-by: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201210082134.36957-1-xi.fengfei@h3c.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linus Torvalds
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ac73e3dc8a |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few random little subsystems
- almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
get merged up.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
mm: fix kernel-doc markups
zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
zram: support page writeback
mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
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Lokesh Gidra
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d0d4730ac2 |
userfaultfd: add user-mode only option to unprivileged_userfaultfd sysctl knob
With this change, when the knob is set to 0, it allows unprivileged users to call userfaultfd, like when it is set to 1, but with the restriction that page faults from only user-mode can be handled. In this mode, an unprivileged user (without SYS_CAP_PTRACE capability) must pass UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY to userfaultd or the API will fail with EPERM. This enables administrators to reduce the likelihood that an attacker with access to userfaultfd can delay faulting kernel code to widen timing windows for other exploits. The default value of this knob is changed to 0. This is required for correct functioning of pipe mutex. However, this will fail postcopy live migration, which will be unnoticeable to the VM guests. To avoid this, set 'vm.userfault = 1' in /sys/sysctl.conf. The main reason this change is desirable as in the short term is that the Android userland will behave as with the sysctl set to zero. So without this commit, any Linux binary using userfaultfd to manage its memory would behave differently if run within the Android userland. For more details, refer to Andrea's reply [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200904033438.GI9411@redhat.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120030411.2690816-3-lokeshgidra@google.com Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Cc: <calin@google.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Andrew Klychkov
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751d5b2741 |
Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst, verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst, dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst, remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst, module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst, intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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Fam Zheng
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62af696471 |
docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
Both seem overlooked while adding the section in the main content. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famzheng@amazon.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022065403.3936070-1-fam@euphon.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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Nitin Gupta
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facdaa917c |
mm: proactive compaction
For some applications, we need to allocate almost all memory as hugepages.
However, on a running system, higher-order allocations can fail if the
memory is fragmented. Linux kernel currently does on-demand compaction as
we request more hugepages, but this style of compaction incurs very high
latency. Experiments with one-time full memory compaction (followed by
hugepage allocations) show that kernel is able to restore a highly
fragmented memory state to a fairly compacted memory state within <1 sec
for a 32G system. Such data suggests that a more proactive compaction can
help us allocate a large fraction of memory as hugepages keeping
allocation latencies low.
For a more proactive compaction, the approach taken here is to define a
new sysctl called 'vm.compaction_proactiveness' which dictates bounds for
external fragmentation which kcompactd tries to maintain.
The tunable takes a value in range [0, 100], with a default of 20.
Note that a previous version of this patch [1] was found to introduce too
many tunables (per-order extfrag{low, high}), but this one reduces them to
just one sysctl. Also, the new tunable is an opaque value instead of
asking for specific bounds of "external fragmentation", which would have
been difficult to estimate. The internal interpretation of this opaque
value allows for future fine-tuning.
Currently, we use a simple translation from this tunable to [low, high]
"fragmentation score" thresholds (low=100-proactiveness, high=low+10%).
The score for a node is defined as weighted mean of per-zone external
fragmentation. A zone's present_pages determines its weight.
To periodically check per-node score, we reuse per-node kcompactd threads,
which are woken up every 500 milliseconds to check the same. If a node's
score exceeds its high threshold (as derived from user-provided
proactiveness value), proactive compaction is started until its score
reaches its low threshold value. By default, proactiveness is set to 20,
which implies threshold values of low=80 and high=90.
This patch is largely based on ideas from Michal Hocko [2]. See also the
LWN article [3].
Performance data
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System: x64_64, 1T RAM, 80 CPU threads.
Kernel: 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch
echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
Before starting the driver, the system was fragmented from a userspace
program that allocates all memory and then for each 2M aligned section,
frees 3/4 of base pages using munmap. The workload is mainly anonymous
userspace pages, which are easy to move around. I intentionally avoided
unmovable pages in this test to see how much latency we incur when
hugepage allocations hit direct compaction.
1. Kernel hugepage allocation latencies
With the system in such a fragmented state, a kernel driver then allocates
as many hugepages as possible and measures allocation latency:
(all latency values are in microseconds)
- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3
percentile latency
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5 7894
10 9496
25 12561
30 15295
40 18244
50 21229
60 27556
75 30147
80 31047
90 32859
95 33799
Total 2M hugepages allocated = 383859 (749G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)
- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20
sysctl -w vm.compaction_proactiveness=20
percentile latency
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5 2
10 2
25 3
30 3
40 3
50 4
60 4
75 4
80 4
90 5
95 429
Total 2M hugepages allocated = 384105 (750G worth of hugepages out of 762G
total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages)
2. JAVA heap allocation
In this test, we first fragment memory using the same method as for (1).
Then, we start a Java process with a heap size set to 700G and request the
heap to be allocated with THP hugepages. We also set THP to madvise to
allow hugepage backing of this heap.
/usr/bin/time
java -Xms700G -Xmx700G -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
The above command allocates 700G of Java heap using hugepages.
- With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3
17.39user 1666.48system 27:37.89elapsed
- With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20
8.35user 194.58system 3:19.62elapsed
Elapsed time remains around 3:15, as proactiveness is further increased.
Note that proactive compaction happens throughout the runtime of these
workloads. The situation of one-time compaction, sufficient to supply
hugepages for following allocation stream, can probably happen for more
extreme proactiveness values, like 80 or 90.
In the above Java workload, proactiveness is set to 20. The test starts
with a node's score of 80 or higher, depending on the delay between the
fragmentation step and starting the benchmark, which gives more-or-less
time for the initial round of compaction. As t he benchmark consumes
hugepages, node's score quickly rises above the high threshold (90) and
proactive compaction starts again, which brings down the score to the low
threshold level (80). Repeat.
bpftrace also confirms proactive compaction running 20+ times during the
runtime of this Java benchmark. kcompactd threads consume 100% of one of
the CPUs while it tries to bring a node's score within thresholds.
Backoff behavior
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Above workloads produce a memory state which is easy to compact. However,
if memory is filled with unmovable pages, proactive compaction should
essentially back off. To test this aspect:
- Created a kernel driver that allocates almost all memory as hugepages
followed by freeing first 3/4 of each hugepage.
- Set proactiveness=40
- Note that proactive_compact_node() is deferred maximum number of times
with HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC of wait between each check
(=> ~30 seconds between retries).
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11098289/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20161230131412.GI13301@dhcp22.suse.cz/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@nitingupta.dev>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616204527.19185-1-nigupta@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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docs: move nommu-mmap.txt to admin-guide and rename to ReST
The nommu-mmap.txt file provides description of user visible behaviuour. So, move it to the admin-guide. As it is already at the ReST, also rename it. Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3a63d1833b513700755c85bf3bda0a6c4ab56986.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
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Johannes Weiner
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mm: allow swappiness that prefers reclaiming anon over the file workingset
With the advent of fast random IO devices (SSDs, PMEM) and in-memory swap devices such as zswap, it's possible for swap to be much faster than filesystems, and for swapping to be preferable over thrashing filesystem caches. Allow setting swappiness - which defines the rough relative IO cost of cache misses between page cache and swap-backed pages - to reflect such situations by making the swap-preferred range configurable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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mm/compaction: Disable compact_unevictable_allowed on RT
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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docs: admin-guide: add laptops documentation
The docs under Documentation/laptops contain users specific information. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> |
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it
The stuff under sysctl describes /sys interface from userspace point of view. So, add it to the admin-guide and remove the :orphan: from its index file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> |