On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 07:17:58PM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > Currently, all contexts that flush memcg stats do so with sleeping not > allowed. Some of these contexts are perfectly safe to sleep in, such as > reading cgroup files from userspace or the background periodic flusher. > Flushing is an expensive operation that scales with the number of cpus > and the number of cgroups in the system, so avoid doing it atomically > where possible. > > Refactor the code to make mem_cgroup_flush_stats() non-atomic (aka > sleepable), and provide a separate atomic version. The atomic version is > used in reclaim, refault, writeback, and in mem_cgroup_usage(). All > other code paths are left to use the non-atomic version. This includes > callbacks for userspace reads and the periodic flusher. > > Since refault is the only caller of mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(), > change it to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_atomic_ratelimited(). Reclaim and > refault code paths are modified to do non-atomic flushing in separate > later patches -- so it will eventually be changed back to > mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(). > > Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
