mm/page_reporting: add budget limit on how many pages can be reported per pass

In order to keep ourselves from reporting pages that are just going to be
reused again in the case of heavy churn we can put a limit on how many
total pages we will process per pass.  Doing this will allow the worker
thread to go into idle much more quickly so that we avoid competing with
other threads that might be allocating or freeing pages.

The logic added here will limit the worker thread to no more than one
sixteenth of the total free pages in a given area per list.  Once that
limit is reached it will update the state so that at the end of the pass
we will reschedule the worker to try again in 2 seconds when the memory
churn has hopefully settled down.

Again this optimization doesn't show much of a benefit in the standard
case as the memory churn is minmal.  However with page allocator shuffling
enabled the gain is quite noticeable.  Below are the results with a THP
enabled version of the will-it-scale page_fault1 test showing the
improvement in iterations for 16 processes or threads.

Without:
tasks   processes       processes_idle  threads         threads_idle
16      8283274.75      0.17            5594261.00      38.15

With:
tasks   processes       processes_idle  threads         threads_idle
16      8767010.50      0.21            5791312.75      36.98

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: wei qi <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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