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mm: multi-gen LRU: thrashing prevention
authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:16:57 +0000 (12:16 -0700)
committerLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:49:53 +0000 (17:49 -0400)
commitb276f3a5432ee4f2d9ce2ecd5d05a31eff75f9b2
tree6cbe04b37d3484e25635789e08e7112bbea58738
parent744ae0a839ed8d32d0273f1823d503ca608387e5
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, e.g., [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/20211130201652.2218636d@mail.inbox.lv/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220407031525.2368067-12-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: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/vmscan.c