On Thu 15-01-15 16:25:16, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 01:58:20PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 15-01-15 11:37:53, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > > current->reclaim_state is only used to count the number of slab pages
> > > reclaimed by shrink_slab(). So instead of initializing it before we are
> > >
> > > Note that after this patch try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() will count not
> > > only reclaimed user pages, but also slab pages, which is expected,
> > > because it can reclaim kmem from kmem-active sub cgroups.
> >
> > Except that reclaim_state counts all freed slab objects that have
> > current->reclaim_state != NULL AFAIR. This includes also kfreed pages
> > from interrupt context and who knows what else and those pages might be
> > from a different memcgs, no?
>
> Hmm, true, good point. Can an interrupt handler free a lot of memory
> though?
it is drivers so who knows...
> Does RCU free objects from irq or soft irq context?
and this is another part which I didn't consider at all. RCU callbacks
are normally processed from kthread context but rcu_init also does
open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks)
so something is clearly processed from softirq as well. I am not
familiar with RCU details enough to tell how many callbacks are
processed this way. Tiny RCU, on the other hand, seem to be processing
all callbacks via __rcu_process_callbacks and that seems to be processed
from softirq only.
> > Besides that I am not sure this makes any difference in the end. No
> > try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages caller really cares about the exact
> > number of reclaimed pages. We care only about whether there was any
> > progress done - and even that not exactly (e.g. try_charge checks
> > mem_cgroup_margin before retry/oom so if sufficient kmem pages were
> > uncharged then we will notice that).
>
> Frankly, I thought exactly the same initially, that's why I dropped
> reclaim_state handling from the initial memcg shrinkers patch set.
> However, then Hillf noticed that nr_reclaimed is checked right after
> calling shrink_slab() in the memcg iteration loop in shrink_zone():
>
>
> memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
> do {
> [...]
> if (memcg && is_classzone)
> shrink_slab(sc->gfp_mask, zone_to_nid(zone),
> memcg, sc->nr_scanned - scanned,
> lru_pages);
>
> /*
> * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
> * cgroups to fulfill the overall scan target for the
> * zone.
> *
> * Limit reclaim, on the other hand, only cares about
> * nr_to_reclaim pages to be reclaimed and it will
> * retry with decreasing priority if one round over the
> * whole hierarchy is not sufficient.
> */
> if (!global_reclaim(sc) &&
> sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) {
> mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg);
> break;
> }
> memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim);
> } while (memcg);
>
>
> If we can ignore reclaimed slab pages here (?), let's drop this patch.
I see what you are trying to achieve but can this lead to a serious
over-reclaim? We should be reclaiming mostly user pages and kmem should
be only a small portion I would expect.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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