mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim

In page reclaim, huge page is split.  split_huge_page() adds tail pages
to LRU list.  Since we are reclaiming a huge page, it's better we
reclaim all subpages of the huge page instead of just the head page.
This patch adds split tail pages to shrink page list so the tail pages
can be reclaimed soon.

Before this patch, run a swap workload:
  thp_fault_alloc 3492
  thp_fault_fallback 608
  thp_collapse_alloc 6
  thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0
  thp_split 916

With this patch:
  thp_fault_alloc 4085
  thp_fault_fallback 16
  thp_collapse_alloc 90
  thp_collapse_alloc_failed 0
  thp_split 1272

fallback allocation is reduced a lot.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 45eaae0..2ed1a16 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1559,7 +1559,8 @@ static int __split_huge_page_splitting(struct page *page,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page)
+static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page,
+				       struct list_head *list)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
@@ -1645,7 +1646,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(struct page *page)
 		BUG_ON(!PageDirty(page_tail));
 		BUG_ON(!PageSwapBacked(page_tail));
 
-		lru_add_page_tail(page, page_tail, lruvec);
+		lru_add_page_tail(page, page_tail, lruvec, list);
 	}
 	atomic_sub(tail_count, &page->_count);
 	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0);
@@ -1752,7 +1753,8 @@ static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
 
 /* must be called with anon_vma->root->rwsem held */
 static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page,
-			      struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
+			      struct anon_vma *anon_vma,
+			      struct list_head *list)
 {
 	int mapcount, mapcount2;
 	pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -1783,7 +1785,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page,
 		       mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
 	BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));
 
-	__split_huge_page_refcount(page);
+	__split_huge_page_refcount(page, list);
 
 	mapcount2 = 0;
 	anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach(avc, &anon_vma->rb_root, pgoff, pgoff) {
@@ -1798,7 +1800,14 @@ static void __split_huge_page(struct page *page,
 	BUG_ON(mapcount != mapcount2);
 }
 
-int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
+/*
+ * Split a hugepage into normal pages. This doesn't change the position of head
+ * page. If @list is null, tail pages will be added to LRU list, otherwise, to
+ * @list. Both head page and tail pages will inherit mapping, flags, and so on
+ * from the hugepage.
+ * Return 0 if the hugepage is split successfully otherwise return 1.
+ */
+int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 {
 	struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
 	int ret = 1;
@@ -1823,7 +1832,7 @@ int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
 	BUG_ON(!PageSwapBacked(page));
-	__split_huge_page(page, anon_vma);
+	__split_huge_page(page, anon_vma, list);
 	count_vm_event(THP_SPLIT);
 
 	BUG_ON(PageCompound(page));