Re: [PATCH net] net-memcg: avoid stalls when under memory pressure

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:28 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:26 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:03 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > As Shakeel explains the commit under Fixes had the unintended
> > > side-effect of no longer pre-loading the cached memory allowance.
> > > Even tho we previously dropped the first packet received when
> > > over memory limit - the consecutive ones would get thru by using
> > > the cache. The charging was happening in batches of 128kB, so
> > > we'd let in 128kB (truesize) worth of packets per one drop.
> > >
> > > After the change we no longer force charge, there will be no
> > > cache filling side effects. This causes significant drops and
> > > connection stalls for workloads which use a lot of page cache,
> > > since we can't reclaim page cache under GFP_NOWAIT.
> > >
> > > Some of the latency can be recovered by improving SACK reneg
> > > handling but nowhere near enough to get back to the pre-5.15
> > > performance (the application I'm experimenting with still
> > > sees 5-10x worst latency).
> > >
> > > Apply the suggested workaround of using GFP_ATOMIC. We will now
> > > be more permissive than previously as we'll drop _no_ packets
> > > in softirq when under pressure. But I can't think of any good
> > > and simple way to address that within networking.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221012163300.795e7b86@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > > Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Fixes: 4b1327be9fe5 ("net-memcg: pass in gfp_t mask to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem()")
> > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > CC: weiwan@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > CC: shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > CC: ncardwell@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > CC: ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > ---
> > >  include/net/sock.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> > > index 9e464f6409a7..22f8bab583dd 100644
> > > --- a/include/net/sock.h
> > > +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> > > @@ -2585,7 +2585,7 @@ static inline gfp_t gfp_any(void)
> > >
> > >  static inline gfp_t gfp_memcg_charge(void)
> > >  {
> > > -       return in_softirq() ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;
> > > +       return in_softirq() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
> > >  }
> > >
> >
> > How about just using gfp_any() and we can remove gfp_memcg_charge()?
>
> How about keeping gfp_memcg_charge() and adding a comment on its intent ?
>
> gfp_any() is very generic :/

SGTM.



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