In memcg_rstat_updated(), we iterate the memcg being updated and its parents to update memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates in the fast path (i.e. no atomic updates). According to my math, this is 3 memory loads (and potentially 3 cache misses) per memcg: - Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu. - Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation). - Load the address of the parent memcg. Avoid most of the cache misses by caching a pointer from each struct memcg_vmstats_percpu to its parent on the corresponding CPU. In this case, for the first memcg we have 2 memory loads (same as above): - Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu. - Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation). Then for each additional memcg, we need a single load to get the parent's stats_updates directly. This reduces the number of loads from O(3N) to O(2+N) -- where N is the number of memcgs we need to iterate. Additionally, stash a pointer to memcg->vmstats in each struct memcg_vmstats_percpu such that we can access the atomic counter that all CPUs fold into, memcg->vmstats->stats_updates. memcg_should_flush_stats() is changed to memcg_vmstats_needs_flush() to accept a struct memcg_vmstats pointer accordingly. In struct memcg_vmstats_percpu, make sure both pointers together with stats_updates live on the same cacheline. Finally, update mem_cgroup_alloc() to take in a parent pointer and initialize the new cache pointers on each CPU. The percpu loop in mem_cgroup_alloc() may look concerning, but there are multiple similar loops in the cgroup creation path (e.g. cgroup_rstat_init()), most of which are hidden within alloc_percpu(). According to Oliver's testing [1], this fixes multiple 30-38% regressions in vm-scalability, will-it-scale-tlb_flush2, and will-it-scale-fallocate1. This comes at a cost of 2 more pointers per CPU (<2KB on a machine with 128 CPUs). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZbDJsfsZt2ITyo61@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Fixes: 8d59d2214c23 ("mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg") Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202401221624.cb53a8ca-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The only noticeable change I made after Oliver's testing is adding the cacheline padding in struct memcg_vmstats_percpu. In my config, the added pointers happen to be on the same cacheline as stats_updates, and I assume with Oliver's testing given the results. However, this can change on different configs and as new stats are added, so I added the cacheline padding to make sure they are always on the same cachline. --- mm/memcontrol.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index e4c8735e7c85c..868da91cceb48 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -633,8 +633,15 @@ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu { unsigned long nr_page_events; unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS]; + /* Fit members below in a single cacheline for memcg_rstat_updated() */ + CACHELINE_PADDING(_pad1_); + /* Stats updates since the last flush */ unsigned int stats_updates; + + /* Cached pointers for fast iteration in memcg_rstat_updated() */ + struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *parent; + struct memcg_vmstats *vmstats; }; struct memcg_vmstats { @@ -698,36 +705,35 @@ static void memcg_stats_unlock(void) } -static bool memcg_should_flush_stats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +static bool memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(struct memcg_vmstats *vmstats) { - return atomic64_read(&memcg->vmstats->stats_updates) > + return atomic64_read(&vmstats->stats_updates) > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH * num_online_cpus(); } static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int val) { + struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *statc; int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - unsigned int x; if (!val) return; cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, cpu); - - for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) { - x = __this_cpu_add_return(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates, - abs(val)); - - if (x < MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH) + statc = this_cpu_ptr(memcg->vmstats_percpu); + for (; statc; statc = statc->parent) { + statc->stats_updates += abs(val); + if (statc->stats_updates < MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH) continue; /* * If @memcg is already flush-able, increasing stats_updates is * redundant. Avoid the overhead of the atomic update. */ - if (!memcg_should_flush_stats(memcg)) - atomic64_add(x, &memcg->vmstats->stats_updates); - __this_cpu_write(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates, 0); + if (!memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(statc->vmstats)) + atomic64_add(statc->stats_updates, + &statc->vmstats->stats_updates); + statc->stats_updates = 0; } } @@ -756,7 +762,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) if (!memcg) memcg = root_mem_cgroup; - if (memcg_should_flush_stats(memcg)) + if (memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(memcg->vmstats)) do_flush_stats(memcg); } @@ -770,7 +776,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w) { /* - * Deliberately ignore memcg_should_flush_stats() here so that flushing + * Deliberately ignore memcg_vmstats_needs_flush() here so that flushing * in latency-sensitive paths is as cheap as possible. */ do_flush_stats(root_mem_cgroup); @@ -5456,10 +5462,11 @@ static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) __mem_cgroup_free(memcg); } -static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) +static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(struct mem_cgroup *parent) { + struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *statc, *pstatc; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; - int node; + int node, cpu; int __maybe_unused i; long error = -ENOMEM; @@ -5483,6 +5490,14 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) if (!memcg->vmstats_percpu) goto fail; + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + if (parent) + pstatc = per_cpu_ptr(parent->vmstats_percpu, cpu); + statc = per_cpu_ptr(memcg->vmstats_percpu, cpu); + statc->parent = parent ? pstatc : NULL; + statc->vmstats = memcg->vmstats; + } + for_each_node(node) if (alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node)) goto fail; @@ -5528,7 +5543,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css) struct mem_cgroup *memcg, *old_memcg; old_memcg = set_active_memcg(parent); - memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc(); + memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc(parent); set_active_memcg(old_memcg); if (IS_ERR(memcg)) return ERR_CAST(memcg); -- 2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog
