Both Ryan and Chris have been utilizing the small test program to aid in
debugging and identifying issues with swap entry allocation. While a real
or intricate workload might be more suitable for assessing the correctness
and effectiveness of the swap allocation policy, a small test program
presents a simpler means of understanding the problem and initially
verifying the improvements being made.
Let's endeavor to integrate it into tools/mm. Although it presently only
accommodates 64KB and 4KB, I'm optimistic that we can expand its
capabilities to support multiple sizes and simulate more complex systems
in the future as required.
Basically, we have
1. Use MADV_PAGEPUT for rapid swap-out, putting the swap allocation
code under high exercise in a short time.
2. Use MADV_DONTNEED to simulate the behavior of libc and Java heap in
freeing memory, as well as for munmap, app exits, or OOM killer
scenarios. This ensures new mTHP is always generated, released or
swapped out, similar to the behavior on a PC or Android phone where
many applications are frequently started and terminated.
3. Swap in with or without the "-a" option to observe how fragments
due to swap-in and the incoming swap-in of large folios will impact
swap-out fallback.
Due to 2, we ensure a certain proportion of mTHP. Similarly, because of
3, we maintain a certain proportion of small folios, as we don't support
large folios swap-in, meaning any swap-in will immediately result in small
folios. Therefore, with both 2 and 3, we automatically achieve a system
containing both mTHP and small folios. Additionally, 1 provides the
ability to continuously swap them out.
We can also use "-s" to add a dedicated small folios memory area.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: thp_swap_allocator_test.c needs mman.h, per Kairui Song]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240622071231.576056-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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