Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm, swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 10:42 AM Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit e9e58a4ec3b1 ("memcg: avoid use cmpxchg in swap cgroup maintainance")
> replaced the cmpxchg/xchg with a global irq spinlock because some archs
> doesn't support 2 bytes cmpxchg/xchg. Clearly this won't scale well.
>
> And as commented in swap_cgroup.c, this lock is not needed for map
> synchronization.
>
> Emulation of 2 bytes cmpxchg/xchg with atomic isn't hard, so implement
> it to get rid of this lock.
>
> Testing using 64G brd and build with build kernel with make -j96 in 1.5G
> memory cgroup using 4k folios showed below improvement (10 test run):
>
> Before this series:
> Sys time: 10730.08 (stdev 49.030728)
> Real time: 171.03 (stdev 0.850355)
>
> After this commit:
> Sys time: 9612.24 (stdev 66.310789), -10.42%
> Real time: 159.78 (stdev 0.577193), -6.57%
>
> With 64k folios and 2G memcg:
> Before this series:
> Sys time: 7626.77 (stdev 43.545517)
> Real time: 136.22 (stdev 1.265544)
>
> After this commit:
> Sys time: 6936.03 (stdev 39.996280), -9.06%
> Real time: 129.65 (stdev 0.880039), -4.82%
>
> Sequential swapout of 8G 4k zero folios (24 test run):
> Before this series:
> 5461409.12 us (stdev 183957.827084)
>
> After this commit:
> 5420447.26 us (stdev 196419.240317)
>
> Sequential swapin of 8G 4k zero folios (24 test run):
> Before this series:
> 19736958.916667 us (stdev 189027.246676)
>
> After this commit:
> 19662182.629630 us (stdev 172717.640614)
>
> Performance is better or at least not worse for all tests above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/swap_cgroup.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/swap_cgroup.c b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> index a76afdc3666a..028f5e6be3f0 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
>
>  #include <linux/swapops.h> /* depends on mm.h include */
>
> +#define ID_PER_UNIT (sizeof(atomic_t) / sizeof(unsigned short))
> +struct swap_cgroup_unit {
> +       union {
> +               int raw;
> +               atomic_t val;
> +               unsigned short __id[ID_PER_UNIT];
> +       };
> +};

This doubles the size of the per-entry data, right?

Why do we need this? I thought cmpxchg() supports multiple sizes and
will already do the emulation for us.

> +
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(swap_cgroup_mutex);
>
>  struct swap_cgroup {
> @@ -12,8 +21,10 @@ struct swap_cgroup {
>  };
>
>  struct swap_cgroup_ctrl {
> -       unsigned short  *map;
> -       spinlock_t      lock;
> +       union {
> +               struct swap_cgroup_unit *units;
> +               unsigned short *map;
> +       };
>  };
>
>  static struct swap_cgroup_ctrl swap_cgroup_ctrl[MAX_SWAPFILES];
> @@ -31,6 +42,24 @@ static struct swap_cgroup_ctrl swap_cgroup_ctrl[MAX_SWAPFILES];
>   *
>   * TODO: we can push these buffers out to HIGHMEM.
>   */
> +static unsigned short __swap_cgroup_xchg(void *map,
> +                                        pgoff_t offset,
> +                                        unsigned int new_id)
> +{
> +       unsigned int old_id;
> +       struct swap_cgroup_unit *units = map;
> +       struct swap_cgroup_unit *unit = &units[offset / ID_PER_UNIT];
> +       struct swap_cgroup_unit new, old = { .raw = atomic_read(&unit->val) };
> +
> +       do {
> +               new.raw = old.raw;
> +               old_id = old.__id[offset % ID_PER_UNIT];
> +               new.__id[offset % ID_PER_UNIT] = new_id;
> +       } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(&unit->val, &old.raw, new.raw));
> +
> +       return old_id;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * swap_cgroup_record - record mem_cgroup for a set of swap entries
>   * @ent: the first swap entry to be recorded into
> @@ -44,22 +73,19 @@ unsigned short swap_cgroup_record(swp_entry_t ent, unsigned short id,
>                                   unsigned int nr_ents)
>  {
>         struct swap_cgroup_ctrl *ctrl;
> -       unsigned short *map;
> -       unsigned short old;
> -       unsigned long flags;
>         pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(ent);
>         pgoff_t end = offset + nr_ents;
> +       unsigned short old, iter;
> +       unsigned short *map;
>
>         ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[swp_type(ent)];
>         map = ctrl->map;
>
> -       spin_lock_irqsave(&ctrl->lock, flags);
> -       old = map[offset];
> +       old = READ_ONCE(map[offset]);
>         do {
> -               VM_BUG_ON(map[offset] != old);
> -               map[offset] = id;
> +               iter = __swap_cgroup_xchg(map, offset, id);
> +               VM_BUG_ON(iter != old);
>         } while (++offset != end);
> -       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctrl->lock, flags);
>
>         return old;
>  }
> @@ -85,20 +111,20 @@ unsigned short lookup_swap_cgroup_id(swp_entry_t ent)
>
>  int swap_cgroup_swapon(int type, unsigned long max_pages)
>  {
> -       void *map;
> +       struct swap_cgroup_unit *units;
>         struct swap_cgroup_ctrl *ctrl;
>
>         if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
>                 return 0;
>
> -       map = vzalloc(max_pages * sizeof(unsigned short));
> -       if (!map)
> +       units = vzalloc(DIV_ROUND_UP(max_pages, ID_PER_UNIT) *
> +                       sizeof(struct swap_cgroup_unit));
> +       if (!units)
>                 goto nomem;
>
>         ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[type];
>         mutex_lock(&swap_cgroup_mutex);
> -       ctrl->map = map;
> -       spin_lock_init(&ctrl->lock);
> +       ctrl->units = units;
>         mutex_unlock(&swap_cgroup_mutex);
>
>         return 0;
> --
> 2.47.0
>





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