The patch titled Subject: mm: memcontrol: avoid charge statistics churn during page migration has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memcontrol: avoid charge statistics churn during page migration Charge migration currently disables IRQs twice to update the charge statistics for the old page and then again for the new page. But migration is a seamless transition of a charge from one physical page to another one of the same size, so this should be a non-event from an accounting point of view. Leave the statistics alone. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 35 ++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ static void unlock_page_lru(struct page } static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - unsigned int nr_pages, bool lrucare) + bool lrucare) { struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); int isolated; @@ -2765,16 +2765,6 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *p if (lrucare) unlock_page_lru(page, isolated); - - local_irq_disable(); - mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, nr_pages); - /* - * "charge_statistics" updated event counter. Then, check it. - * Insert ancestor (and ancestor's ancestors), to softlimit RB-tree. - * if they exceeds softlimit. - */ - memcg_check_events(memcg, page); - local_irq_enable(); } static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_limit_mutex); @@ -6460,12 +6450,17 @@ void mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct pag if (!memcg) return; + commit_charge(page, memcg, lrucare); + if (PageTransHuge(page)) { nr_pages <<= compound_order(page); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(page), page); } - commit_charge(page, memcg, nr_pages, lrucare); + local_irq_disable(); + mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, nr_pages); + memcg_check_events(memcg, page); + local_irq_enable(); if (do_swap_account && PageSwapCache(page)) { swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) }; @@ -6651,7 +6646,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(struct lis void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage, bool lrucare) { - unsigned int nr_pages = 1; struct page_cgroup *pc; int isolated; @@ -6660,6 +6654,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *old VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!lrucare && PageLRU(oldpage), oldpage); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!lrucare && PageLRU(newpage), newpage); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(oldpage) != PageAnon(newpage), newpage); + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransHuge(oldpage) != PageTransHuge(newpage), + newpage); if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return; @@ -6677,12 +6673,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *old VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!(pc->flags & PCG_MEM), oldpage); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(do_swap_account && !(pc->flags & PCG_MEMSW), oldpage); - if (PageTransHuge(oldpage)) { - nr_pages <<= compound_order(oldpage); - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(oldpage), oldpage); - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(newpage), newpage); - } - if (lrucare) lock_page_lru(oldpage, &isolated); @@ -6691,12 +6681,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *old if (lrucare) unlock_page_lru(oldpage, isolated); - local_irq_disable(); - mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(pc->mem_cgroup, oldpage, -nr_pages); - memcg_check_events(pc->mem_cgroup, oldpage); - local_irq_enable(); - - commit_charge(newpage, pc->mem_cgroup, nr_pages, lrucare); + commit_charge(newpage, pc->mem_cgroup, lrucare); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch mm-page-flags-clean-up-the-page-flag-test-set-clear-macros.patch mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-3.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-shmem_unuse.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-hugetlb-charging.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-4.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-5.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-uncharge-from-irq-context.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-double-migration-v2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-migrate-before-re-mapping.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-page-cache-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-page-cache-migration-2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-clear-page-mapping-in-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-use-page-lists-for-uncharge-batching.patch mm-memcontrol-use-page-lists-for-uncharge-batching-fix-hugetlb-page-lru.patch page-cgroup-trivial-cleanup.patch page-cgroup-get-rid-of-nr_pcg_flags.patch memcg-remove-lookup_cgroup_page-prototype.patch mm-vmscan-remove-remains-of-kswapd-managed-zone-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim.patch mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim-fix.patch mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-fix.patch mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch mm-vmscan-clean-up-struct-scan_control-v2.patch mm-export-nr_shmem-via-sysinfo2-si_meminfo-interfaces.patch mm-replace-init_page_accessed-by-__setpagereferenced.patch mm-update-the-description-for-vm_total_pages.patch mm-vmscan-report-the-number-of-file-anon-pages-respectively.patch mm-pagemap-avoid-unnecessary-overhead-when-tracepoints-are-deactivated.patch mm-rearrange-zone-fields-into-read-only-page-alloc-statistics-and-page-reclaim-lines.patch mm-move-zone-pages_scanned-into-a-vmstat-counter.patch mm-vmscan-only-update-per-cpu-thresholds-for-online-cpu.patch mm-page_alloc-abort-fair-zone-allocation-policy-when-remotes-nodes-are-encountered.patch mm-page_alloc-reduce-cost-of-the-fair-zone-allocation-policy.patch mm-writeback-prevent-race-when-calculating-dirty-limits.patch slub-remove-kmemcg-id-from-create_unique_id.patch mm-oom-ensure-memoryless-node-zonelist-always-includes-zones.patch mm-oom-ensure-memoryless-node-zonelist-always-includes-zones-fix.patch mm-oom-remove-unnecessary-check-for-null-zonelist.patch mm-oom-rename-zonelist-locking-functions.patch mm-thp-restructure-thp-avoidance-of-light-synchronous-migration.patch mm-vmscan-fix-an-outdated-comment-still-mentioning-get_scan_ratio.patch memcg-vmscan-fix-forced-scan-of-anonymous-pages.patch memcg-vmscan-fix-forced-scan-of-anonymous-pages-fix-cleanups.patch mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration.patch nilfs2-integrate-sysfs-support-into-driver-fix.patch linux-next.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html