The patch titled
Subject: memcg: better bounds on the memcg stats updates
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memcg-better-bounds-on-the-memcg-stats-updates.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-better-bounds-on-the-memcg-stats-updates.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-better-bounds-on-the-memcg-stats-updates.patch
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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memcg: better bounds on the memcg stats updates
The commit 11192d9c124d ("memcg: flush stats only if updated") added
tracking of memcg stats updates which is used by the readers to flush only
if the updates are over a certain threshold. However each individual
update can correspond to a large value change for a given stat. For
example adding or removing a hugepage to an LRU changes the stat by
thp_nr_pages (512 on x86_64). Treating the update related to THP as one
can keep the stat off, in theory, by (thp_nr_pages * nr_cpus *
CHARGE_BATCH) before flush.
To handle such scenarios, this patch adds consideration of the stat update
value as well instead of just the update event. In addition let the asyn
flusher unconditionally flush the stats to put time limit on the stats
skew and hopefully a lot less readers would need to flush.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118065350.697046-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-better-bounds-on-the-memcg-stats-updates
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -629,11 +629,17 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(stats_flush_lock)
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, stats_updates);
static atomic_t stats_flush_threshold = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int val)
{
+ unsigned int x;
+
cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, smp_processor_id());
- if (!(__this_cpu_inc_return(stats_updates) % MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH))
- atomic_inc(&stats_flush_threshold);
+
+ x = __this_cpu_add_return(stats_updates, abs(val));
+ if (x > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH) {
+ atomic_add(x / MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH, &stats_flush_threshold);
+ __this_cpu_write(stats_updates, 0);
+ }
}
static void __mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
@@ -656,7 +662,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
{
- mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
+ __mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_dwork, 2UL*HZ);
}
@@ -672,7 +678,7 @@ void __mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup
return;
__this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->state[idx], val);
- memcg_rstat_updated(memcg);
+ memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, val);
}
/* idx can be of type enum memcg_stat_item or node_stat_item. */
@@ -705,7 +711,7 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lru
/* Update lruvec */
__this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stats_percpu->state[idx], val);
- memcg_rstat_updated(memcg);
+ memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, val);
}
/**
@@ -807,7 +813,7 @@ void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgr
return;
__this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->events[idx], count);
- memcg_rstat_updated(memcg);
+ memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, count);
}
static unsigned long memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int event)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx are
memcg-better-bounds-on-the-memcg-stats-updates.patch
