On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From e08990dd9ada13cf236bec1ef44b207436434b8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:11:01 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/7] memcg: add memory.scan_stat
>>
>> commit log of commit 0ae5e89 " memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in..."
>> says it adds scanning stats to memory.stat file. But it doesn't because
>> we considered we needed to make a concensus for such new APIs.
>>
>> This patch is a trial to add memory.scan_stat. This shows
>> - the number of scanned pages
>> - the number of recleimed pages
>> - the number of elaplsed time (including sleep/pause time)
>> for both of direct/soft reclaim and shrinking caused by changing limit
>> or force_empty.
>>
>> The biggest difference with oringinal Ying's one is that this file
>> can be reset by some write, as
>>
>> # echo 0 ...../memory.scan_stat
>>
>> [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.scan_stat
>> scanned_pages_by_limit 358470
>> freed_pages_by_limit 180795
>> elapsed_ns_by_limit 21629927
>> scanned_pages_by_system 0
>> freed_pages_by_system 0
>> elapsed_ns_by_system 0
>> scanned_pages_by_shrink 76646
>> freed_pages_by_shrink 38355
>> elappsed_ns_by_shrink 31990670
>
> elapsed?
>
>>
>> total_scanned_pages_by_limit 358470
>> total_freed_pages_by_limit 180795
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_hierarchical 216299275
>> total_scanned_pages_by_system 0
>> total_freed_pages_by_system 0
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_system 0
>> total_scanned_pages_by_shrink 76646
>> total_freed_pages_by_shrink 38355
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_shrink 31990670
>>
>> total_xxxx is for hierarchy management.
>
> For some reason, i feel the opposite where the local stat (like "scanned_pages_by_limit") are reclaimed under hierarchical reclaim. The total_xxx stats are only incremented for root_mem which is the cgroup triggers the hierarchical reclaim. So:
> total_scanned_pages_by_limit: number of pages being scanned while the memcg hits its limit
> scanned_pages_by_limit: number of pages being scanned while one of the memcg's ancestor hits its limit
> am i missing something?
>
>>
>> This will be useful for further memcg developments and need to be
>> developped before we do some complicated rework on LRU/softlimit
>> management.
>>
>> Now, scan/free/elapsed_by_system is incomplete but future works of
>> Johannes at el. will fill remaining information and then, we can
>> look into problems of isolation between memcgs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 33 +++++++++
>> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 16 ++++
>> include/linux/swap.h | 6 -
>> mm/memcontrol.c | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> mm/vmscan.c | 27 ++++++-
>> 5 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: mmotm-0615/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> +++ mmotm-0615/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
>>
>> 5.2 stat file
>>
>> -memory.stat file includes following statistics
>> +5.2.1 memory.stat file includes following statistics
>>
>> # per-memory cgroup local status
>> cache - # of bytes of page cache memory.
>> @@ -438,6 +438,37 @@ Note:
>> file_mapped is accounted only when the memory cgroup is owner of page
>> cache.)
>>
>> +5.2.2 memory.scan_stat
>> +
>> +memory.scan_stat includes statistics information for memory scanning and
>> +freeing, reclaiming. The statistics shows memory scanning information since
>> +memory cgroup creation and can be reset to 0 by writing 0 as
>> +
>> + #echo 0 > ../memory.scan_stat
>> +
>> +This file contains following statistics.
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_limit - # of scanned pages at hitting limit.
>> +freed_pages_by_limit - # of freed pages at hitting limit.
>> +elapsed_ns_by_limit - nano sec of elappsed time at LRU scan at
>> + hitting limit.(this includes sleep time.)
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_system - # of scanned pages by the kernel.
>> + (Now, this value means global memory reclaim
>> + caused by system memory shortage with a hint
>> + of softlimit. "No soft limit" case will be
>> + supported in future.)
>> +freed_pages_by_system - # of freed pages by the kernel.
>> +elapsed_ns_by_system - nano sec of elappsed time by kernel.
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_shrink - # of scanned pages by shrinking.
>> + (i.e. changes of limit, force_empty, etc.)
>> +freed_pages_by_shrink - # of freed pages by shirkining.
>> +elappsed_ns_by_shrink - nano sec of elappsed time at shrinking.
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +
>> +total_xxx includes the statistics of children scanning caused by the cgroup.
>
> based on the code inspection, the total_xxx also includes the cgroup's scan stat as well.
>>
>> +
>> +
>> 5.3 swappiness
>>
>> Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
>> Index: mmotm-0615/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ mmotm-0615/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> @@ -120,6 +120,22 @@ struct zone_reclaim_stat*
>> mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_page(struct page *page);
>> extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>> struct task_struct *p);
>> +struct memcg_scanrecord {
>> + struct mem_cgroup *mem; /* scanend memory cgroup */
>> + struct mem_cgroup *root; /* scan target hierarchy root */
>> + int context; /* scanning context (see memcontrol.c) */
>> + unsigned long nr_scanned; /* the number of scanned pages */
>> + unsigned long nr_freed; /* the number of freed pages */
>> + unsigned long elappsed; /* nsec of time elapsed while scanning */
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +};
>> +
>> +extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> + struct memcg_scanrecord *rec);
>> +extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> + struct zone *zone,
>> + struct memcg_scanrecord *rec);
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
>> extern int do_swap_account;
>> Index: mmotm-0615/include/linux/swap.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/include/linux/swap.h
>> +++ mmotm-0615/include/linux/swap.h
>> @@ -253,12 +253,6 @@ static inline void lru_cache_add_file(st
>> /* linux/mm/vmscan.c */
>> extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
>> gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask);
>> -extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> - gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap);
>> -extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> - gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> - struct zone *zone,
>> - unsigned long *nr_scanned);
>> extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
>> extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
>> extern int vm_swappiness;
>> Index: mmotm-0615/mm/memcontrol.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ mmotm-0615/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -203,6 +203,57 @@ struct mem_cgroup_eventfd_list {
>> static void mem_cgroup_threshold(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
>> static void mem_cgroup_oom_notify(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
>>
>> +enum {
>> + SCAN_BY_LIMIT,
>> + FREED_BY_LIMIT,
>> + ELAPSED_BY_LIMIT,
>> +
>> + SCAN_BY_SYSTEM,
>> + FREED_BY_SYSTEM,
>> + ELAPSED_BY_SYSTEM,
>> +
>> + SCAN_BY_SHRINK,
>> + FREED_BY_SHRINK,
>> + ELAPSED_BY_SHRINK,
>> + NR_SCANSTATS,
>> +};
>> +#define __FREED (1)
>> +#define __ELAPSED (2)
>
> /tab/space/
>
>>
>> +
>> +struct scanstat {
>> + spinlock_t lock;
>> + unsigned long stats[NR_SCANSTATS]; /* local statistics */
>> + unsigned long totalstats[NR_SCANSTATS]; /* hierarchical */
>> +};
>> +
>> +const char *scanstat_string[NR_SCANSTATS] = {
>> + "scanned_pages_by_limit",
>> + "freed_pages_by_limit",
>> + "elapsed_ns_by_limit",
>> +
>> + "scanned_pages_by_system",
>> + "freed_pages_by_system",
>> + "elapsed_ns_by_system",
>> +
>> + "scanned_pages_by_shrink",
>> + "freed_pages_by_shrink",
>> + "elappsed_ns_by_shrink",
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +};
>> +
>> +const char *total_scanstat_string[NR_SCANSTATS] = {
>> + "total_scanned_pages_by_limit",
>> + "total_freed_pages_by_limit",
>> + "total_elapsed_ns_by_hierarchical",
>
> typo?
>
>>
>> +
>> + "total_scanned_pages_by_system",
>> + "total_freed_pages_by_system",
>> + "total_elapsed_ns_by_system",
>> +
>> + "total_scanned_pages_by_shrink",
>> + "total_freed_pages_by_shrink",
>> + "total_elapsed_ns_by_shrink",
>> +};
>> +
>> /*
>> * The memory controller data structure. The memory controller controls both
>> * page cache and RSS per cgroup. We would eventually like to provide
>> @@ -264,7 +315,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>>
>> /* For oom notifier event fd */
>> struct list_head oom_notify;
>> -
>> + /* For recording LRU-scan statistics */
>> + struct scanstat scanstat;
>> /*
>> * Should we move charges of a task when a task is moved into this
>> * mem_cgroup ? And what type of charges should we move ?
>> @@ -1634,6 +1686,28 @@ int mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(struct
>> }
>> #endif
>>
>> +
>> +
>> +static void mem_cgroup_record_scanstat(struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>> +{
>> + struct mem_cgroup *mem;
>> + int context = rec->context;
>> +
>> + mem = rec->mem;
>> + spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> + mem->scanstat.stats[context] += rec->nr_scanned;
>> + mem->scanstat.stats[context + __FREED] += rec->nr_freed;
>> + mem->scanstat.stats[context + __ELAPSED] += rec->elappsed;
>
> elapsed?
>
>> + spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +
>> + mem = rec->root;
>> + spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> + mem->scanstat.totalstats[context] += rec->nr_scanned;
>> + mem->scanstat.totalstats[context + __FREED] += rec->nr_freed;
>> + mem->scanstat.totalstats[context + __ELAPSED] += rec->elappsed;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> + spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +}
>> +
>> /*
>> * Scan the hierarchy if needed to reclaim memory. We remember the last child
>> * we reclaimed from, so that we don't end up penalizing one child extensively
>> @@ -1659,8 +1733,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
>> bool shrink = reclaim_options & MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SHRINK;
>> bool check_soft = reclaim_options & MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SOFT;
>> unsigned long excess;
>> - unsigned long nr_scanned;
>> int visit;
>> + struct memcg_scanrecord rec;
>>
>> excess = res_counter_soft_limit_excess(&root_mem->res) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>
>> @@ -1668,6 +1742,15 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
>> if (!check_soft && root_mem->memsw_is_minimum)
>> noswap = true;
>>
>> + if (shrink)
>> + rec.context = SCAN_BY_SHRINK;
>> + else if (check_soft)
>> + rec.context = SCAN_BY_SYSTEM;
>> + else
>> + rec.context = SCAN_BY_LIMIT;
>> +
>> + rec.root = root_mem;
>
>
>
>>
>> +
>> again:
>> if (!shrink) {
>> visit = 0;
>> @@ -1695,14 +1778,19 @@ again:
>> css_put(&victim->css);
>> continue;
>> }
>> + rec.mem = victim;
>> + rec.nr_scanned = 0;
>> + rec.nr_freed = 0;
>> + rec.elappsed = 0;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> /* we use swappiness of local cgroup */
>> if (check_soft) {
>> ret = mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(victim, gfp_mask,
>> - noswap, zone, &nr_scanned);
>> - *total_scanned += nr_scanned;
>> + noswap, zone, &rec);
>> + *total_scanned += rec.nr_scanned;
>> } else
>> ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(victim, gfp_mask,
>> - noswap);
>> + noswap, &rec);
>> + mem_cgroup_record_scanstat(&rec);
>> css_put(&victim->css);
>>
>> total += ret;
>> @@ -3757,7 +3845,8 @@ try_to_free:
>> ret = -EINTR;
>> goto out;
>> }
>> - progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, GFP_KERNEL, false);
>> + progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem,
>> + GFP_KERNEL, false, NULL);
>
> So we don't record the stat for force_empty case?
>
>>
>> if (!progress) {
>> nr_retries--;
>> /* maybe some writeback is necessary */
>> @@ -4599,6 +4688,34 @@ static int mem_control_numa_stat_open(st
>> }
>> #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>>
>> +static int mem_cgroup_scan_stat_read(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>> + struct cftype *cft,
>> + struct cgroup_map_cb *cb)
>> +{
>> + struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
>> + int i;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < NR_SCANSTATS; i++)
>> + cb->fill(cb, scanstat_string[i], mem->scanstat.stats[i]);
>> + for (i = 0; i < NR_SCANSTATS; i++)
>> + cb->fill(cb, total_scanstat_string[i],
>> + mem->scanstat.totalstats[i]);
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int mem_cgroup_reset_scan_stat(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>> + unsigned int event)
>> +{
>> + struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
>> +
>> + spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> + memset(&mem->scanstat.stats, 0, sizeof(mem->scanstat.stats));
>> + memset(&mem->scanstat.totalstats, 0, sizeof(mem->scanstat.totalstats));
>> + spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +
>> static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[] = {
>> {
>> .name = "usage_in_bytes",
>> @@ -4669,6 +4786,11 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[]
>> .mode = S_IRUGO,
>> },
>> #endif
>> + {
>> + .name = "scan_stat",
>> + .read_map = mem_cgroup_scan_stat_read,
>> + .trigger = mem_cgroup_reset_scan_stat,
>> + },
>> };
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
>> @@ -4932,6 +5054,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *
>> atomic_set(&mem->refcnt, 1);
>> mem->move_charge_at_immigrate = 0;
>> mutex_init(&mem->thresholds_lock);
>> + spin_lock_init(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> return &mem->css;
>> free_out:
>> __mem_cgroup_free(mem);
>> Index: mmotm-0615/mm/vmscan.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ mmotm-0615/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -2199,9 +2199,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct z
>> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>>
>> unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> - gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> - struct zone *zone,
>> - unsigned long *nr_scanned)
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> + struct zone *zone,
>> + struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>> {
>> struct scan_control sc = {
>> .nr_scanned = 0,
>> @@ -2213,6 +2213,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>> .order = 0,
>> .mem_cgroup = mem,
>> };
>> + unsigned long start, end;
>>
>> sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
>> (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
>> @@ -2221,6 +2222,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>> sc.may_writepage,
>> sc.gfp_mask);
>>
>> + start = sched_clock();
>> /*
>> * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
>> * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
>> @@ -2229,19 +2231,27 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>> * the priority and make it zero.
>> */
>> shrink_zone(0, zone, &sc);
>> + end = sched_clock();
>> +
>> + if (rec) {
>> + rec->nr_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
>
>
>>
>> + rec->nr_freed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> + rec->elappsed += end - start;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> + }
>>
>> trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
>>
>> - *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
>> return sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> }
>>
>> unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
>> gfp_t gfp_mask,
>> - bool noswap)
>> + bool noswap,
>> + struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>> {
>> struct zonelist *zonelist;
>> unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>> + unsigned long start, end;
>> int nid;
>> struct scan_control sc = {
>> .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
>> @@ -2259,6 +2269,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
>> .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
>> };
>>
>> + start = sched_clock();
>> /*
>> * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
>> * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
>> @@ -2273,6 +2284,12 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
>> sc.gfp_mask);
>>
>> nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc, &shrink);
>> + end = sched_clock();
>> + if (rec) {
>> + rec->nr_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
>
> sc.nr_scanned only contains the nr_scanned of last priority do_try_to_free_pages(). we need to reset it to total_scanned before return. I am looking at v3.0-rc3 .
>
>>
>> + rec->nr_freed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> + rec->elappsed += end - start;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> + }
>>
>> trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
>>
>>
> --Ying
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