mm: memcg: use larger batches for proactive reclaim

Before 388536ac291 ("mm:vmscan: fix inaccurate reclaim during proactive
reclaim") we passed the number of pages for the reclaim request directly
to try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages, which could lead to significant
overreclaim.  After 0388536ac291 the number of pages was limited to a
maximum 32 (SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) to reduce the amount of overreclaim. 
However such a small batch size caused a regression in reclaim performance
due to many more reclaim start/stop cycles inside memory_reclaim.  The
restart cost is amortized over more pages with larger batch sizes, and
becomes a significant component of the runtime if the batch size is too
small.

Reclaim tries to balance nr_to_reclaim fidelity with fairness across nodes
and cgroups over which the pages are spread.  As such, the bigger the
request, the bigger the absolute overreclaim error.  Historic in-kernel
users of reclaim have used fixed, small sized requests to approach an
appropriate reclaim rate over time.  When we reclaim a user request of
arbitrary size, use decaying batch sizes to manage error while maintaining
reasonable throughput.

MGLRU enabled - memcg LRU used
root - full reclaim       pages/sec   time (sec)
pre-0388536ac291      :    68047        10.46
post-0388536ac291     :    13742        inf
(reclaim-reclaimed)/4 :    67352        10.51

MGLRU enabled - memcg LRU not used
/uid_0 - 1G reclaim       pages/sec   time (sec)  overreclaim (MiB)
pre-0388536ac291      :    258822       1.12            107.8
post-0388536ac291     :    105174       2.49            3.5
(reclaim-reclaimed)/4 :    233396       1.12            -7.4

MGLRU enabled - memcg LRU not used
/uid_0 - full reclaim     pages/sec   time (sec)
pre-0388536ac291      :    72334        7.09
post-0388536ac291     :    38105        14.45
(reclaim-reclaimed)/4 :    72914        6.96

[tjmercier@google.com: v4]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206175251.3364296-1-tjmercier@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202233855.1236422-1-tjmercier@google.com
Fixes: 0388536ac291 ("mm:vmscan: fix inaccurate reclaim during proactive reclaim")
Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Efly Young <yangyifei03@kuaishou.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 484a9d2862d4..cb216d30a221 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6981,6 +6981,8 @@ static ssize_t memory_reclaim(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
 
 	reclaim_options	= MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP | MEMCG_RECLAIM_PROACTIVE;
 	while (nr_reclaimed < nr_to_reclaim) {
+		/* Will converge on zero, but reclaim enforces a minimum */
+		unsigned long batch_size = (nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed) / 4;
 		unsigned long reclaimed;
 
 		if (signal_pending(current))
@@ -6995,8 +6997,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_reclaim(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
 			lru_add_drain_all();
 
 		reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg,
-					min(nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
-					GFP_KERNEL, reclaim_options);
+					batch_size, GFP_KERNEL, reclaim_options);
 
 		if (!reclaimed && !nr_retries--)
 			return -EAGAIN;