The patch titled
Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:25:17 -0300
Now that the counters are modified via cmpxchg both CPU locally (via the
account functions), and remotely (via cpu_vm_stats_fold), its possible to
switch vmstat_shepherd to perform the per-CPU vmstats folding remotely.
This fixes the following two problems:
1. A customer provided some evidence which indicates that
the idle tick was stopped; albeit, CPU-specific vmstat
counters still remained populated.
Thus one can only assume quiet_vmstat() was not
invoked on return to the idle loop. If I understand
correctly, I suspect this divergence might erroneously
prevent a reclaim attempt by kswapd. If the number of
zone specific free pages are below their per-cpu drift
value then zone_page_state_snapshot() is used to
compute a more accurate view of the aforementioned
statistic. Thus any task blocked on the NUMA node
specific pfmemalloc_wait queue will be unable to make
significant progress via direct reclaim unless it is
killed after being woken up by kswapd
(see throttle_direct_reclaim())
2. With a SCHED_FIFO task that busy loops on a given CPU,
and kworker for that CPU at SCHED_OTHER priority,
queuing work to sync per-vmstats will either cause that
work to never execute, or stalld (i.e. stall daemon)
boosts kworker priority which causes a latency
violation
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230313162634.509267576@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely
+++ a/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -2049,6 +2049,23 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(shepherd, vmstat_shepherd);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
+/* Flush counters remotely if CPU uses cmpxchg to update its per-CPU counters */
+static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ cpus_read_lock();
+ for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+ cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu);
+ cond_resched();
+ }
+ cpus_read_unlock();
+
+ schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd,
+ round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
+}
+#else
static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
{
int cpu;
@@ -2068,6 +2085,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd,
round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
}
+#endif
static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx are
this_cpu_cmpxchg-arm64-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-loongarch-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-s390-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-x86-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
add-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local-and-asm-generic-definitions.patch
convert-this_cpu_cmpxchg-users-to-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local.patch
mm-vmstat-switch-counter-modification-to-cmpxchg.patch
vmstat-switch-per-cpu-vmstat-counters-to-32-bits.patch
mm-vmstat-use-xchg-in-cpu_vm_stats_fold.patch
mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch
mm-vmstat-refresh-stats-remotely-instead-of-via-work-item.patch
vmstat-add-pcp-remote-node-draining-via-cpu_vm_stats_fold.patch
