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Con Kolivas writes:

> Andrew Morton writes:
>
>> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > How about autoregulated swappiness, which seems to be very efficient at
>>> > its job?
>>>
>>> It's been around for quite a while, and akpm has not expressed any
>>> interest in it so I think this will only ever flounder in the -ck domain.
>>
>> Nobody sent me the patch. And the
>> justification/explanation/sales-brochure. And the benchmarks...
>
> Ah what the heck. They can only be knocked back to where they already are.

Hmm the second patch doesn't appear complete against mm6. I'll have to
re-create it once I can look at the code at home. Here is the version
against vanilla so you can see what it's supposed to do. Apologies.

Con

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Index: linux-2.6.7-ck/include/linux/swap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7-ck.orig/include/linux/swap.h 2004-07-01 19:41:13.375151780 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-ck/include/linux/swap.h 2004-07-01 19:41:30.134517540 +1000
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
extern int try_to_free_pages(struct zone **, unsigned int, unsigned int);
extern int shrink_all_memory(int);
extern int vm_swappiness;
-extern int auto_swappiness;
+extern int vm_autoregulate;

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
/* linux/mm/shmem.c */
Index: linux-2.6.7-ck/include/linux/sysctl.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7-ck.orig/include/linux/sysctl.h 2004-07-01 19:41:13.376151623 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-ck/include/linux/sysctl.h 2004-07-01 19:41:30.136517226 +1000
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
VM_LAPTOP_MODE=23, /* vm laptop mode */
VM_BLOCK_DUMP=24, /* block dump mode */
VM_HUGETLB_GROUP=25, /* permitted hugetlb group */
- VM_AUTO_SWAPPINESS=26, /* Make vm_swappiness autoregulated */
+ VM_AUTOREGULATE=26, /* swappiness and inactivation autoregulated */
};


Index: linux-2.6.7-ck/kernel/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7-ck.orig/kernel/sysctl.c 2004-07-01 19:41:13.377151466 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-ck/kernel/sysctl.c 2004-07-01 19:41:30.137517069 +1000
@@ -744,9 +744,9 @@
.extra2 = &one_hundred,
},
{
- .ctl_name = VM_AUTO_SWAPPINESS,
- .procname = "autoswappiness",
- .data = &auto_swappiness,
+ .ctl_name = VM_AUTOREGULATE,
+ .procname = "autoregulate",
+ .data = &vm_autoregulate,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
Index: linux-2.6.7-ck/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.7-ck.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-01 19:41:13.378151309 +1000
+++ linux-2.6.7-ck/mm/vmscan.c 2004-07-01 19:45:01.086359211 +1000
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
* From 0 .. 100. Higher means more swappy.
*/
int vm_swappiness = 60;
-int auto_swappiness = 1;
+int vm_autoregulate = 1;
+static int app_percent = 1;
static long total_memory;

#define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
@@ -649,7 +650,9 @@
long mapped_ratio;
long distress;
long swap_tendency;
+ struct sysinfo i;

+ si_meminfo(&i);
lru_add_drain();
pgmoved = 0;
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
@@ -691,23 +694,21 @@
*/
mapped_ratio = (sc->nr_mapped * 100) / total_memory;

+ /*
+ * app_percent is the percentage of physical ram used
+ * by application pages.
+ */
+ si_meminfo(&i);
#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
- if (auto_swappiness) {
- int app_percent;
- struct sysinfo i;
-
+ app_percent = 100 - ((i.freeram + get_page_cache_size() -
+ swapper_space.nrpages) / (i.totalram / 100));
+
+ if (vm_autoregulate) {
si_swapinfo(&i);

if (likely(i.totalswap >= 100)) {
int swap_centile;

- /*
- * app_percent is the percentage of physical ram used
- * by application pages.
- */
- si_meminfo(&i);
- app_percent = 100 - ((i.freeram + get_page_cache_size() -
- swapper_space.nrpages) / (i.totalram / 100));

/*
* swap_centile is the percentage of the last (sizeof physical
@@ -724,6 +725,9 @@
} else
vm_swappiness = 0;
}
+#else
+ app_percent = 100 - ((i.freeram + get_page_cache_size()) /
+ (i.totalram / 100));
#endif

/*
@@ -834,11 +838,16 @@
static void
shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
{
- unsigned long scan_active, scan_inactive;
- int count;
+ unsigned long scan_active, scan_inactive, biased_active;
+ int count, biased_ap;

scan_inactive = (zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive) >> sc->priority;

+ if (vm_autoregulate) {
+ biased_ap = app_percent * app_percent / 100;
+ biased_active = zone->nr_active / (101 - biased_ap) * 100;
+ } else
+ biased_active = zone->nr_active;
/*
* Try to keep the active list 2/3 of the size of the cache. And
* make sure that refill_inactive is given a decent number of pages.
@@ -849,7 +858,7 @@
* `scan_active' just to make sure that the kernel will slowly sift
* through the active list.
*/
- if (zone->nr_active >= 4*(zone->nr_inactive*2 + 1)) {
+ if (biased_active >= 4*(zone->nr_inactive*2 + 1)) {
/* Don't scan more than 4 times the inactive list scan size */
scan_active = 4*scan_inactive;
} else {
@@ -857,7 +866,7 @@

/* Cast to long long so the multiply doesn't overflow */

- tmp = (unsigned long long)scan_inactive * zone->nr_active;
+ tmp = (unsigned long long)scan_inactive * biased_active;
do_div(tmp, zone->nr_inactive*2 + 1);
scan_active = (unsigned long)tmp;
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