Commit 96f4a592 authored by Yu Zhao's avatar Yu Zhao Committed by Todd Kjos
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FROMLIST: mm: multi-gen LRU: thrashing prevention

Add /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/min_ttl_ms for thrashing prevention, as
requested by many desktop users [1].

When set to value N, it prevents the working set of N milliseconds
from getting evicted. The OOM killer is triggered if this working set
cannot be kept in memory. Based on the average human detectable lag
(~100ms), N=1000 usually eliminates intolerable lags due to thrashing.
Larger values like N=3000 make lags less noticeable at the risk of
premature OOM kills.

Compared with the size-based approach, e.g., [2], this time-based
approach has the following advantages:
1. It is easier to configure because it is agnostic to applications
   and memory sizes.
2. It is more reliable because it is directly wired to the OOM killer.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ydza%2FzXKY9ATRoh6@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211130201652.2218636d@mail.inbox.lv/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309021230.721028-12-yuzhao@google.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBrian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: default avatarSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDaniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarDonald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHolger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKonstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: default avatarShuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarSofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: default avatarVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Bug: 227651406
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Change-Id: I482d33f3beaf7723d2f3eeaaa5b4f12bcb9b48a1
parent 76fdc101
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