On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:57:21 +0200
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Memory cgroup limit reclaim currently picks one memory cgroup out of
> the target hierarchy, remembers it as the last scanned child, and
> reclaims all zones in it with decreasing priority levels.
>
> The new hierarchy reclaim code will pick memory cgroups from the same
> hierarchy concurrently from different zones and priority levels, it
> becomes necessary that hierarchy roots not only remember the last
> scanned child, but do so for each zone and priority level.
>
> Furthermore, detecting full hierarchy round-trips reliably will become
> crucial, so instead of counting on one iterator site seeing a certain
> memory cgroup twice, use a generation counter that is increased every
> time the child with the highest ID has been visited.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
I cannot image how this works. could you illustrate more with easy example ?
Thanks,
-Kame
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 912c7c7..f4b404e 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu {
> unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS];
> };
>
> +struct mem_cgroup_iter_state {
> + int position;
> + unsigned int generation;
> +};
> +
> /*
> * per-zone information in memory controller.
> */
> @@ -131,6 +136,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup_per_zone {
> struct list_head lists[NR_LRU_LISTS];
> unsigned long count[NR_LRU_LISTS];
>
> + struct mem_cgroup_iter_state iter_state[DEF_PRIORITY + 1];
> +
> struct zone_reclaim_stat reclaim_stat;
> struct rb_node tree_node; /* RB tree node */
> unsigned long long usage_in_excess;/* Set to the value by which */
> @@ -231,11 +238,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
> * per zone LRU lists.
> */
> struct mem_cgroup_lru_info info;
> - /*
> - * While reclaiming in a hierarchy, we cache the last child we
> - * reclaimed from.
> - */
> - int last_scanned_child;
> int last_scanned_node;
> #if MAX_NUMNODES > 1
> nodemask_t scan_nodes;
> @@ -781,9 +783,15 @@ struct mem_cgroup *try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> return memcg;
> }
>
> +struct mem_cgroup_iter {
> + struct zone *zone;
> + int priority;
> + unsigned int generation;
> +};
> +
> static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> struct mem_cgroup *prev,
> - bool remember)
> + struct mem_cgroup_iter *iter)
> {
> struct mem_cgroup *mem = NULL;
> int id = 0;
> @@ -791,7 +799,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> if (!root)
> root = root_mem_cgroup;
>
> - if (prev && !remember)
> + if (prev && !iter)
> id = css_id(&prev->css);
>
> if (prev && prev != root)
> @@ -804,10 +812,20 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> }
>
> while (!mem) {
> + struct mem_cgroup_iter_state *uninitialized_var(is);
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
>
> - if (remember)
> - id = root->last_scanned_child;
> + if (iter) {
> + int nid = zone_to_nid(iter->zone);
> + int zid = zone_idx(iter->zone);
> + struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz;
> +
> + mz = mem_cgroup_zoneinfo(root, nid, zid);
> + is = &mz->iter_state[iter->priority];
> + if (prev && iter->generation != is->generation)
> + return NULL;
> + id = is->position;
> + }
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> css = css_get_next(&mem_cgroup_subsys, id + 1, &root->css, &id);
> @@ -818,8 +836,13 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> id = 0;
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> - if (remember)
> - root->last_scanned_child = id;
> + if (iter) {
> + is->position = id;
> + if (!css)
> + is->generation++;
> + else if (!prev && mem)
> + iter->generation = is->generation;
> + }
>
> if (prev && !css)
> return NULL;
> @@ -842,14 +865,14 @@ static void mem_cgroup_iter_break(struct mem_cgroup *root,
> * be used for reference counting.
> */
> #define for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, root) \
> - for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, false); \
> + for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, NULL); \
> iter != NULL; \
> - iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, iter, false))
> + iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, iter, NULL))
>
> #define for_each_mem_cgroup(iter) \
> - for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, false); \
> + for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); \
> iter != NULL; \
> - iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, false))
> + iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL))
>
> static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> {
> @@ -1619,6 +1642,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg,
> bool check_soft = reclaim_options & MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SOFT;
> unsigned long excess;
> unsigned long nr_scanned;
> + struct mem_cgroup_iter iter = {
> + .zone = zone,
> + .priority = 0,
> + };
>
> excess = res_counter_soft_limit_excess(&root_memcg->res) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>
> @@ -1627,7 +1654,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg,
> noswap = true;
>
> while (1) {
> - victim = mem_cgroup_iter(root_memcg, victim, true);
> + victim = mem_cgroup_iter(root_memcg, victim, &iter);
> if (!victim) {
> loop++;
> /*
> @@ -4878,7 +4905,6 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
> res_counter_init(&memcg->res, NULL);
> res_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL);
> }
> - memcg->last_scanned_child = 0;
> memcg->last_scanned_node = MAX_NUMNODES;
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->oom_notify);
>
> --
> 1.7.6
>
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