The patch titled
Subject: memcg: do not modify rstat tree for zero updates
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
memcg-do-not-modify-rstat-tree-for-zero-updates.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-do-not-modify-rstat-tree-for-zero-updates.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memcg: do not modify rstat tree for zero updates
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:18:01 +0000
In some situations, we may end up calling memcg_rstat_updated() with a
value of 0, which means the stat was not actually updated. An example is
if we fail to reclaim any pages in shrink_folio_list().
Do not add the cgroup to the rstat updated tree in this case, to avoid
unnecessarily flushing it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330191801.1967435-9-yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-do-not-modify-rstat-tree-for-zero-updates
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -619,6 +619,9 @@ static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(s
{
unsigned int x;
+ if (!val)
+ return;
+
cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, smp_processor_id());
x = __this_cpu_add_return(stats_updates, abs(val));
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx are
cgroup-rename-cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe-to-atomic.patch
memcg-rename-mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed-to-ratelimited.patch
memcg-do-not-flush-stats-in-irq-context.patch
memcg-replace-stats_flush_lock-with-an-atomic.patch
memcg-sleep-during-flushing-stats-in-safe-contexts.patch
workingset-memcg-sleep-when-flushing-stats-in-workingset_refault.patch
vmscan-memcg-sleep-when-flushing-stats-during-reclaim.patch
memcg-do-not-modify-rstat-tree-for-zero-updates.patch
