swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even
slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD).  The main contention comes
from swap_info_get().  This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new
per-partition lock.

Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and
swap_list are still protected by swap_lock.

nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock.  In
theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually
there are free swap pages.  But sounds not a big problem.

Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only
protected by swap_info_struct.lock.

Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and
swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it.  read the
flags is ok with either the locks hold.

If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold
the former first to avoid deadlock.

swap_entry_free() can change swap_list.  To delete that code, we add a
new highest_priority_index.  Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we
check it.  If it's valid, we use it.

It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock().  But in practice,
swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can
say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush).  And
BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock.  We never free
swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag.  The only risk without the
lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly
recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me.
But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem.

"swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the
swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s.  This patch further improves the
speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement.  It's a multi-process test,
so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu]
[hughd@google.com: add missing unlock]
[minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a68fa20269d..b7d8015a6d5 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 		force_scan = true;
 
 	/* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
-	if (!sc->may_swap || (nr_swap_pages <= 0)) {
+	if (!sc->may_swap || (get_nr_swap_pages() <= 0)) {
 		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
 	 */
 	pages_for_compaction = (2UL << sc->order);
 	inactive_lru_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
-	if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
+	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
 		inactive_lru_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 	if (sc->nr_reclaimed < pages_for_compaction &&
 			inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction)
@@ -3085,7 +3085,7 @@ unsigned long global_reclaimable_pages(void)
 	nr = global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
 	     global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
 
-	if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
+	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
 		nr += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
 		      global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 
@@ -3099,7 +3099,7 @@ unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
 	nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
 	     zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
 
-	if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
+	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
 		nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
 		      zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);