Re: [PATCH V6 06/10] Per-memcg background reclaim.

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2011/4/19 Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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 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>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    9 +++
>>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   18 +++++
>>  mm/vmscan.c                |  151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> index d4ff7f2..a4747b0 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 06fddd2..7490147 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -1097,6 +1097,24 @@ 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)
>
> Do we also need to check memcg->memsw_is_minimum here? That's to say,
>       if (nr_swap_pages > 0 && !memcg->memsw_is_minimum)
>                        .....

That sounds about right. By given that swapon isn't common in our test
environment, I am not surprised to miss that condition by that time.

--Ying

> --
> Thanks,
> Zhu Yanhai
>
>> +               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 0060d1e..2a5c734 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;
>>  };
>>
>>  #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
>> @@ -2625,11 +2629,158 @@ out:
>>        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 balance_pgdat_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;
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * 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;
>> +               }
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       sc->nr_scanned = total_scanned;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Per cgroup background reclaim.
>> + * TODO: Take off the order since memcg always do order 0
>> + */
>> +static unsigned long balance_mem_cgroup_pgdat(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
>> +                                             int order)
>> +{
>> +       int i, nid;
>> +       int start_node;
>> +       int priority;
>> +       bool wmark_ok;
>> +       int 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,
>> +               .order = order,
>> +               .mem_cgroup = mem_cont,
>> +       };
>> +
>> +loop_again:
>> +       do_nodes = NODE_MASK_NONE;
>> +       sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
>> +       sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
>> +       total_scanned = 0;
>> +
>> +       for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
>> +               sc.priority = priority;
>> +               wmark_ok = false;
>> +               loop = 0;
>> +
>> +               /* The swap token gets in the way of swapout... */
>> +               if (!priority)
>> +                       disable_swap_token();
>> +
>> +               if (priority == DEF_PRIORITY)
>> +                       do_nodes = node_states[N_ONLINE];
>> +
>> +               while (1) {
>> +                       nid = mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(mem_cont,
>> +                                                       &do_nodes);
>> +
>> +                       /*
>> +                        * Indicate we have cycled the nodelist once
>> +                        * TODO: we might add MAX_RECLAIM_LOOP for preventing
>> +                        * kswapd burning cpu cycles.
>> +                        */
>> +                       if (loop == 0) {
>> +                               start_node = nid;
>> +                               loop++;
>> +                       } else if (nid == start_node)
>> +                               break;
>> +
>> +                       pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
>> +                       balance_pgdat_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))
>> +                                       continue;
>> +                       }
>> +                       if (i < 0)
>> +                               node_clear(nid, do_nodes);
>> +
>> +                       if (mem_cgroup_watermark_ok(mem_cont,
>> +                                                       CHARGE_WMARK_HIGH)) {
>> +                               wmark_ok = true;
>> +                               goto out;
>> +                       }
>> +
>> +                       if (nodes_empty(do_nodes)) {
>> +                               wmark_ok = true;
>> +                               goto out;
>> +                       }
>> +               }
>> +
>> +               if (total_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
>> +                       congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
>> +
>> +               if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
>> +                       break;
>> +       }
>> +out:
>> +       if (!wmark_ok) {
>> +               cond_resched();
>> +
>> +               try_to_freeze();
>> +
>> +               goto loop_again;
>> +       }
>> +
>> +       return sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> +}
>> +#else
>>  static unsigned long balance_mem_cgroup_pgdat(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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