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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 3/8] khugepaged: Drain all LRU caches before scanning pages
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On 4/3/20 4:29 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Having a page in LRU add cache offsets page refcount and gives
> false-negative on PageLRU(). It reduces collapse success rate.
>
> Drain all LRU add caches before scanning. It happens relatively
> rare and should not disturb the system too much.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 14d7afc90786..fdc10ffde1ca 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -2065,6 +2065,8 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(void)
>
> barrier(); /* write khugepaged_pages_to_scan to local stack */
>
> + lru_add_drain_all();
> +
> while (progress < pages) {
> if (!khugepaged_prealloc_page(&hpage, &wait))
> break;

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