One of our workloads (Postgres 14) has regressed when migrated from 5.10 to 6.1 upstream kernel. The regression can be reproduced by sysbench's oltp_write_only benchmark. It seems like the always on rstat flush in mem_cgroup_wb_stats() is causing the regression. So, rate limit that specific rstat flush. One potential consequence would be the dirty throttling might be decided on stale memcg stats. However from our benchmarks and production traffic we have not observed any change in the dirty throttling behavior of the application. Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 935f48c4d399..2474c8382e6f 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4776,7 +4776,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages, struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css); struct mem_cgroup *parent; - mem_cgroup_flush_stats(memcg); + mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(memcg); *pdirty = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY); *pwriteback = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK); -- 2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog
