Re: [PATCH V7 7/9] Per-memcg background reclaim.

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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:00 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the main loop of per-memcg background reclaim which is implemented in
> function balance_mem_cgroup_pgdat().
>
> The function performs a priority loop similar to global reclaim. During each
> iteration it invokes balance_pgdat_node() for all nodes on the system, which
> is another new function performs background reclaim per node. After reclaiming
> each node, it checks mem_cgroup_watermark_ok() and breaks the priority loop if
> it returns true.
>
> changelog v7..v6:
> 1. change based on KAMAZAWA's patchset. Each memcg reclaims now reclaims
> SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX of pages and putback the memcg to the tail of list.
> memcg-kswapd will visit memcgs in round-robin manner and reduce usages.
>
> changelog v6..v5:
> 1. add mem_cgroup_zone_reclaimable_pages()
> 2. fix some comment style.
>
> changelog v5..v4:
> 1. remove duplicate check on nodes_empty()
> 2. add logic to check if the per-memcg lru is empty on the zone.
>
> changelog v4..v3:
> 1. split the select_victim_node and zone_unreclaimable to a seperate patches
> 2. remove the logic tries to do zone balancing.
>
> changelog v3..v2:
> 1. change mz->all_unreclaimable to be boolean.
> 2. define ZONE_RECLAIMABLE_RATE macro shared by zone and per-memcg reclaim.
> 3. some more clean-up.
>
> changelog v2..v1:
> 1. move the per-memcg per-zone clear_unreclaimable into uncharge stage.
> 2. shared the kswapd_run/kswapd_stop for per-memcg and global background
> reclaim.
> 3. name the per-memcg memcg as "memcg-id" (css->id). And the global kswapd
> keeps the same name.
> 4. fix a race on kswapd_stop while the per-memcg-per-zone info could be accessed
> after freeing.
> 5. add the fairness in zonelist where memcg remember the last zone reclaimed
> from.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    9 +++
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   18 +++++++
>  mm/vmscan.c                |  118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 7444738..39eade6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>   */
>  int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
>  int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
> +unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_reclaimable_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> +                                               struct zone *zone);
>  unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>                                      struct zone *zone,
>                                      enum lru_list lru);
> @@ -311,6 +313,13 @@ mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  }
>
>  static inline unsigned long
> +mem_cgroup_zone_reclaimable_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> +                                 struct zone *zone)
> +{
> +     return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline unsigned long
>  mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone,
>                        enum lru_list lru)
>  {
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 4696fd8..41eaa62 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1105,6 +1105,24 @@ int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>       return (active > inactive);
>  }
>
> +unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_reclaimable_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> +                                             struct zone *zone)
> +{
> +     int nr;
> +     int nid = zone_to_nid(zone);
> +     int zid = zone_idx(zone);
> +     struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz = mem_cgroup_zoneinfo(memcg, nid, zid);
> +
> +     nr = MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> +          MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +
> +     if (nr_swap_pages > 0)
> +             nr += MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> +                   MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
> +
> +     return nr;
> +}
> +
>  unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>                                      struct zone *zone,
>                                      enum lru_list lru)
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 63c557e..ba03a10 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
>
>  #include <linux/swapops.h>
>
> +#include <linux/res_counter.h>
> +
>  #include "internal.h"
>
>  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> @@ -111,6 +113,8 @@ struct scan_control {
>        * are scanned.
>        */
>       nodemask_t      *nodemask;
> +
> +     int priority;
>  };

Bah!
If you need sc.priority, you have to make cleanup patch at first. and
all current reclaim path have to use sc.priority. Please don't increase
unnecessary mess.

hmm. so then I would change it by passing the priority as separate parameter.
 
 
>
>  #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
> @@ -2620,10 +2624,124 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(struct kswapd *kswapd_p, int order,
>       finish_wait(wait_h, &wait);
>  }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> +/*
> + * The function is used for per-memcg LRU. It scanns all the zones of the
> + * node and returns the nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed.
> + */
> +static void shrink_memcg_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
> +                             struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> +     int i;
> +     unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
> +     struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont = sc->mem_cgroup;
> +     int priority = sc->priority;

unnecessary local variables. we can keep smaller stack.

ok. 

> +
> +     /*
> +      * This dma->highmem order is consistant with global reclaim.
> +      * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
> +      * direction although memcg user pages are mostly allocated at
> +      * highmem.
> +      */
> +     for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
> +             struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
> +             unsigned long scan = 0;
> +
> +             scan = mem_cgroup_zone_reclaimable_pages(mem_cont, zone);
> +             if (!scan)
> +                     continue;
> +
> +             sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> +             shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
> +             total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
> +
> +             /*
> +              * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and
> +              * the reclaim ratio is low, start doing writepage
> +              * even in laptop mode
> +              */
> +             if (total_scanned > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * 2 &&
> +                 total_scanned > sc->nr_reclaimed + sc->nr_reclaimed / 2) {
> +                     sc->may_writepage = 1;

please make helper function for may_writepage. iow, don't cut-n-paste.

hmm, can you help to clarify that? 
 
> +/*
> + * Per cgroup background reclaim.
> + * TODO: Take off the order since memcg always do order 0
> + */
> +static unsigned long shrink_mem_cgroup(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont, int order)
> +{
> +     int i, nid, priority, loop;
> +     pg_data_t *pgdat;
> +     nodemask_t do_nodes;
> +     unsigned long total_scanned;
> +     struct scan_control sc = {
> +             .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
> +             .may_unmap = 1,
> +             .may_swap = 1,
> +             .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
> +             .swappiness = vm_swappiness,

No. memcg has per-memcg swappiness. Please don't use global swappiness value.

sounds reasonable, i will take a look at it. 

> +             .order = order,
> +             .mem_cgroup = mem_cont,
> +     };
> +
> +     do_nodes = NODE_MASK_NONE;
> +     sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
> +     sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;

this initialization move into sc static initializer. balance pgdat has
loop_again label and this doesn't.

will change. 
 

> +     total_scanned = 0;
> +
> +     do_nodes = node_states[N_ONLINE];

Why do we need care memoryless node? N_HIGH_MEMORY is wrong?
hmm, let me look into that. 

> +
> +     for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
> +             (priority >= 0) && (sc.nr_to_reclaim > sc.nr_reclaimed);
> +             priority--) {

bah. bad coding style...

ok. will change. 

> +
> +             sc.priority = priority;
> +             /* The swap token gets in the way of swapout... */
> +             if (!priority)
> +                     disable_swap_token();

Why?

disable swap token mean "Please devest swap preventation privilege from
owner task. Instead we endure swap storm and performance hit".
However I doublt memcg memory shortage is good situation to make swap storm.

I am not sure about that either way. we probably can leave as it is and make corresponding change if real problem is observed? 


> +
> +             for (loop = num_online_nodes();
> +                     (loop > 0) && !nodes_empty(do_nodes);
> +                     loop--) {

Why don't you use for_each_online_node()?
Maybe for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY) is best option?

At least, find_next_bit() is efficient than bare loop?
 


> +
> +                     nid = mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(mem_cont,
> +                                                     &do_nodes);
> +
> +                     pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
> +                     shrink_memcg_node(pgdat, order, &sc);
> +                     total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
> +
> +                     for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
> +                             struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
> +
> +                             if (populated_zone(zone))
> +                                     break;
> +                     }

memory less node check is here. but we can check it before.

Not sure I understand this, can you help to clarify?

thank you for reviewing

--Ying 

> +                     if (i < 0)
> +                             node_clear(nid, do_nodes);
> +
> +                     if (mem_cgroup_watermark_ok(mem_cont,
> +                                             CHARGE_WMARK_HIGH))
> +                             goto out;
> +             }
> +
> +             if (total_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
> +                     congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
> +     }
> +out:
> +     return sc.nr_reclaimed;
> +}
> +#else
>  static unsigned long shrink_mem_cgroup(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont, int order)
>  {
>       return 0;
>  }
> +#endif
>
>  /*
>   * The background pageout daemon, started as a kernel thread
> --
> 1.7.3.1
>





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