Re: [patch 04/11] mm: memcg: per-priority per-zone hierarchy scan generations

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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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