There are two issues with the current refill_obj_stock() code. First of all, when nr_bytes reaches over PAGE_SIZE, it calls drain_obj_stock() to atomically flush out remaining bytes to obj_cgroup, clear cached_objcg and do a obj_cgroup_put(). It is likely that the same obj_cgroup will be used again which leads to another call to drain_obj_stock() and obj_cgroup_get() as well as atomically retrieve the available byte from obj_cgroup. That is costly. Instead, we should just uncharge the excess pages, reduce the stock bytes and be done with it. The drain_obj_stock() function should only be called when obj_cgroup changes. Secondly, when charging an object of size not less than a page in obj_cgroup_charge(), it is possible that the remaining bytes to be refilled to the stock will overflow a page and cause refill_obj_stock() to uncharge 1 page. To avoid the additional uncharge in this case, a new overfill flag is added to refill_obj_stock() which will be set when called from obj_cgroup_charge(). A multithreaded kmalloc+kfree microbenchmark on a 2-socket 48-core 96-thread x86-64 system with 96 testing threads were run. Before this patch, the total number of kilo kmalloc+kfree operations done for a 4k large object by all the testing threads per second were 4,304 kops/s (cgroup v1) and 8,478 kops/s (cgroup v2). After applying this patch, the number were 4,731 (cgroup v1) and 418,142 (cgroup v2) respectively. This represents a performance improvement of 1.10X (cgroup v1) and 49.3X (cgroup v2). Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 292b4783b1a7..2f87d0b05092 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3153,10 +3153,12 @@ static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock, return false; } -static void refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, unsigned int nr_bytes) +static void refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, unsigned int nr_bytes, + bool overfill) { struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock; unsigned long flags; + unsigned int nr_pages = 0; local_irq_save(flags); @@ -3165,14 +3167,20 @@ static void refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, unsigned int nr_bytes) drain_obj_stock(stock); obj_cgroup_get(objcg); stock->cached_objcg = objcg; - stock->nr_bytes = atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0); + stock->nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes) + ? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0; } stock->nr_bytes += nr_bytes; - if (stock->nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE) - drain_obj_stock(stock); + if (!overfill && (stock->nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) { + nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT; + stock->nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1); + } local_irq_restore(flags); + + if (nr_pages) + obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(objcg, nr_pages); } int obj_cgroup_charge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, size_t size) @@ -3201,14 +3209,14 @@ int obj_cgroup_charge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, size_t size) ret = obj_cgroup_charge_pages(objcg, gfp, nr_pages); if (!ret && nr_bytes) - refill_obj_stock(objcg, PAGE_SIZE - nr_bytes); + refill_obj_stock(objcg, PAGE_SIZE - nr_bytes, true); return ret; } void obj_cgroup_uncharge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, size_t size) { - refill_obj_stock(objcg, size); + refill_obj_stock(objcg, size, false); } #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */ -- 2.18.1