On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 08:17:37AM +0800, Shakeel Butt wrote: > For several years, MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH was kept at 32 but with bigger > machines and the network intensive workloads requiring througput in > Gbps, 32 is too small and makes the memcg charging path a bottleneck. > For now, increase it to 64 for easy acceptance to 6.0. We will need to > revisit this in future for ever increasing demand of higher performance. > > Please note that the memcg charge path drain the per-cpu memcg charge > stock, so there should not be any oom behavior change. > > To evaluate the impact of this optimization, on a 72 CPUs machine, we > ran the following workload in a three level of cgroup hierarchy with top > level having min and low setup appropriately. More specifically > memory.min equal to size of netperf binary and memory.low double of > that. > > $ netserver -6 > # 36 instances of netperf with following params > $ netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K > > Results (average throughput of netperf): > Without (6.0-rc1) 10482.7 Mbps > With patch 17064.7 Mbps (62.7% improvement) > > With the patch, the throughput improved by 62.7%. > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> This batch number has long been a pain point :) thanks for the work! Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> - Feng > --- > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > index 4d31ce55b1c0..70ae91188e16 100644 > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > @@ -354,10 +354,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup { > }; > > /* > - * size of first charge trial. "32" comes from vmscan.c's magic value. > - * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons. > + * size of first charge trial. > + * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons or dynamic based of the > + * workload. > */ > -#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 32U > +#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 64U > > extern struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup; > > -- > 2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog >