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Commit eb1d7a65 authored by Yafang Shao's avatar Yafang Shao Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, fadvise: improve the expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED


Our users reported that there're some random latency spikes when their RT
process is running.  Finally we found that latency spike is caused by
FADV_DONTNEED.  Which may call lru_add_drain_all() to drain LRU cache on
remote CPUs, and then waits the per-cpu work to complete.  The wait time
is uncertain, which may be tens millisecond.

That behavior is unreasonable, because this process is bound to a specific
CPU and the file is only accessed by itself, IOW, there should be no
pagecache pages on a per-cpu pagevec of a remote CPU.  That unreasonable
behavior is partially caused by the wrong comparation of the number of
invalidated pages and the number of the target.  For example,

        if (count < (end_index - start_index + 1))

The count above is how many pages were invalidated in the local CPU, and
(end_index - start_index + 1) is how many pages should be invalidated.
The usage of (end_index - start_index + 1) is incorrect, because they are
virtual addresses, which may not mapped to pages.  Besides that, there may
be holes between start and end.  So we'd better check whether there are
still pages on per-cpu pagevec after drain the local cpu, and then decide
whether or not to call lru_add_drain_all().

After I applied it with a hotfix to our production environment, most of
the lru_add_drain_all() can be avoided.

Suggested-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200923133318.14373-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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