Hi, Andrew!
This patchset is reviewed by Vladimir Davydov. I see, there is
minor change in current linux-next.git, which makes the second
patch to apply not completely clean.
Could you tell what should I do with this? Is this OK or should
I rebase it on top of linux.next or do something else?
Thanks,
Kirill
On 22.05.2018 13:07, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this patches solves the problem with slow shrink_slab() occuring
> on the machines having many shrinkers and memory cgroups (i.e.,
> with many containers). The problem is complexity of shrink_slab()
> is O(n^2) and it grows too fast with the growth of containers
> numbers.
>
> Let we have 200 containers, and every container has 10 mounts
> and 10 cgroups. All container tasks are isolated, and they don't
> touch foreign containers mounts.
>
> In case of global reclaim, a task has to iterate all over the memcgs
> and to call all the memcg-aware shrinkers for all of them. This means,
> the task has to visit 200 * 10 = 2000 shrinkers for every memcg,
> and since there are 2000 memcgs, the total calls of do_shrink_slab()
> are 2000 * 2000 = 4000000.
>
> 4 million calls are not a number operations, which can takes 1 cpu cycle.
> E.g., super_cache_count() accesses at least two lists, and makes arifmetical
> calculations. Even, if there are no charged objects, we do these calculations,
> and replaces cpu caches by read memory. I observed nodes spending almost 100%
> time in kernel, in case of intensive writing and global reclaim. The writer
> consumes pages fast, but it's need to shrink_slab() before the reclaimer
> reached shrink pages function (and frees SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages). Even if
> there is no writing, the iterations just waste the time, and slows reclaim down.
>
> Let's see the small test below:
>
> $echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.use_hierarchy
> $mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct
> $echo 4000M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes
> $for i in `seq 0 4000`;
> do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/$i;
> echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/$i/cgroup.procs;
> mkdir -p s/$i; mount -t tmpfs $i s/$i; touch s/$i/file;
> done
>
> Then, let's see drop caches time (5 sequential calls):
> $time echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> 0.00user 13.78system 0:13.78elapsed 99%CPU
> 0.00user 5.59system 0:05.60elapsed 99%CPU
> 0.00user 5.48system 0:05.48elapsed 99%CPU
> 0.00user 8.35system 0:08.35elapsed 99%CPU
> 0.00user 8.34system 0:08.35elapsed 99%CPU
>
>
> Last four calls don't actually shrink something. So, the iterations
> over slab shrinkers take 5.48 seconds. Not so good for scalability.
>
> The patchset solves the problem by making shrink_slab() of O(n)
> complexity. There are following functional actions:
>
> 1)Assign id to every registered memcg-aware shrinker.
> 2)Maintain per-memcgroup bitmap of memcg-aware shrinkers,
> and set a shrinker-related bit after the first element
> is added to lru list (also, when removed child memcg
> elements are reparanted).
> 3)Split memcg-aware shrinkers and !memcg-aware shrinkers,
> and call a shrinker if its bit is set in memcg's shrinker
> bitmap.
> (Also, there is a functionality to clear the bit, after
> last element is shrinked).
>
> This gives signify performance increase. The result after patchset is applied:
>
> $time echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> 0.00user 1.10system 0:01.10elapsed 99%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 64%CPU
> 0.00user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 82%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 64%CPU
> 0.00user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 82%CPU
>
> The results show the performance increases at least in 548 times.
>
> So, the patchset makes shrink_slab() of less complexity and improves
> the performance in such types of load I pointed. This will give a profit
> in case of !global reclaim case, since there also will be less
> do_shrink_slab() calls.
>
> This patchset is made against linux-next.git tree.
>
> v7: Refactorings and readability improvements.
>
> v6: Added missed rcu_dereference() to memcg_set_shrinker_bit().
> Use different functions for allocation and expanding map.
> Use new memcg_shrinker_map_size variable in memcontrol.c.
> Refactorings.
>
> v5: Make the optimizing logic under CONFIG_MEMCG_SHRINKER instead of MEMCG && !SLOB
>
> v4: Do not use memcg mem_cgroup_idr for iteration over mem cgroups
>
> v3: Many changes requested in commentaries to v2:
>
> 1)rebase on prealloc_shrinker() code base
> 2)root_mem_cgroup is made out of memcg maps
> 3)rwsem replaced with shrinkers_nr_max_mutex
> 4)changes around assignment of shrinker id to list lru
> 5)everything renamed
>
> v2: Many changes requested in commentaries to v1:
>
> 1)the code mostly moved to mm/memcontrol.c;
> 2)using IDR instead of array of shrinkers;
> 3)added a possibility to assign list_lru shrinker id
> at the time of shrinker registering;
> 4)reorginized locking and renamed functions and variables.
>
> ---
>
> Kirill Tkhai (16):
> list_lru: Combine code under the same define
> mm: Introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM as combination of CONFIG_MEMCG && !CONFIG_SLOB
> mm: Assign id to every memcg-aware shrinker
> memcg: Move up for_each_mem_cgroup{,_tree} defines
> mm: Assign memcg-aware shrinkers bitmap to memcg
> mm: Refactoring in workingset_init()
> fs: Refactoring in alloc_super()
> fs: Propagate shrinker::id to list_lru
> list_lru: Add memcg argument to list_lru_from_kmem()
> list_lru: Pass dst_memcg argument to memcg_drain_list_lru_node()
> list_lru: Pass lru argument to memcg_drain_list_lru_node()
> mm: Export mem_cgroup_is_root()
> mm: Set bit in memcg shrinker bitmap on first list_lru item apearance
> mm: Iterate only over charged shrinkers during memcg shrink_slab()
> mm: Add SHRINK_EMPTY shrinker methods return value
> mm: Clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg
>
> Vladimir Davydov (1):
> mm: Generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()
>
>
> fs/super.c | 11 ++
> include/linux/list_lru.h | 18 ++--
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 46 +++++++++-
> include/linux/sched.h | 2
> include/linux/shrinker.h | 11 ++
> include/linux/slab.h | 2
> init/Kconfig | 5 +
> mm/list_lru.c | 90 ++++++++++++++-----
> mm/memcontrol.c | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> mm/slab.h | 6 +
> mm/slab_common.c | 8 +-
> mm/vmscan.c | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> mm/workingset.c | 11 ++
> 13 files changed, 478 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
