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If two or more threads of an application faulting on the same folio, the mmap_miss counter can be decreased multiple times. It breaks the mmap_miss heuristic and keeps the readahead enabled even under extreme levels of memory pressure. It happens often if file folios backing a multi-threaded application are getting evicted and re-faulted. Fix it by skipping decreasing mmap_miss if the folio is locked. This change was evaluated on several hundred thousands hosts in Google's production over a couple of weeks. The number of containers being stuck in a vicious reclaim cycle for a long time was reduced several fold (~10-20x), as well as the overall fleet-wide cpu time spent in direct memory reclaim was meaningfully reduced. No regressions were observed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815183224.62007-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.