The patch titled
Subject: mm: memcg: optimize parent iteration in memcg_rstat_updated()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-memcg-optimize-parent-iteration-in-memcg_rstat_updated.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-memcg-optimize-parent-iteration-in-memcg_rstat_updated.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: memcg: optimize parent iteration in memcg_rstat_updated()
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:00:22 +0000
In memcg_rstat_updated(), we iterate the memcg being updated and its
parents to update memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates in the fast path
(i.e. no atomic updates). According to my math, this is 3 memory loads
(and potentially 3 cache misses) per memcg:
- Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu.
- Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation).
- Load the address of the parent memcg.
Avoid most of the cache misses by caching a pointer from each struct
memcg_vmstats_percpu to its parent on the corresponding CPU. In this
case, for the first memcg we have 2 memory loads (same as above):
- Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu.
- Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation).
Then for each additional memcg, we need a single load to get the
parent's stats_updates directly. This reduces the number of loads from
O(3N) to O(2+N) -- where N is the number of memcgs we need to iterate.
Additionally, stash a pointer to memcg->vmstats in each struct
memcg_vmstats_percpu such that we can access the atomic counter that all
CPUs fold into, memcg->vmstats->stats_updates.
memcg_should_flush_stats() is changed to memcg_vmstats_needs_flush() to
accept a struct memcg_vmstats pointer accordingly.
In struct memcg_vmstats_percpu, make sure both pointers together with
stats_updates live on the same cacheline. Finally, update
mem_cgroup_alloc() to take in a parent pointer and initialize the new
cache pointers on each CPU. The percpu loop in mem_cgroup_alloc() may
look concerning, but there are multiple similar loops in the cgroup
creation path (e.g. cgroup_rstat_init()), most of which are hidden
within alloc_percpu().
According to Oliver's testing [1], this fixes multiple 30-38%
regressions in vm-scalability, will-it-scale-tlb_flush2, and
will-it-scale-fallocate1. This comes at a cost of 2 more pointers per
CPU (<2KB on a machine with 128 CPUs).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZbDJsfsZt2ITyo61@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124100023.660032-1-yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 8d59d2214c23 ("mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202401221624.cb53a8ca-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-optimize-parent-iteration-in-memcg_rstat_updated
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -633,8 +633,15 @@ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu {
unsigned long nr_page_events;
unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS];
+ /* Fit members below in a single cacheline for memcg_rstat_updated() */
+ CACHELINE_PADDING(_pad1_);
+
/* Stats updates since the last flush */
unsigned int stats_updates;
+
+ /* Cached pointers for fast iteration in memcg_rstat_updated() */
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *parent;
+ struct memcg_vmstats *vmstats;
};
struct memcg_vmstats {
@@ -698,36 +705,35 @@ static void memcg_stats_unlock(void)
}
-static bool memcg_should_flush_stats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+static bool memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(struct memcg_vmstats *vmstats)
{
- return atomic64_read(&memcg->vmstats->stats_updates) >
+ return atomic64_read(&vmstats->stats_updates) >
MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH * num_online_cpus();
}
static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int val)
{
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *statc;
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
- unsigned int x;
if (!val)
return;
cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, cpu);
-
- for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) {
- x = __this_cpu_add_return(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates,
- abs(val));
-
- if (x < MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)
+ statc = this_cpu_ptr(memcg->vmstats_percpu);
+ for (; statc; statc = statc->parent) {
+ statc->stats_updates += abs(val);
+ if (statc->stats_updates < MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)
continue;
/*
* If @memcg is already flush-able, increasing stats_updates is
* redundant. Avoid the overhead of the atomic update.
*/
- if (!memcg_should_flush_stats(memcg))
- atomic64_add(x, &memcg->vmstats->stats_updates);
- __this_cpu_write(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates, 0);
+ if (!memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(statc->vmstats))
+ atomic64_add(statc->stats_updates,
+ &statc->vmstats->stats_updates);
+ statc->stats_updates = 0;
}
}
@@ -756,7 +762,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(struct mem_c
if (!memcg)
memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
- if (memcg_should_flush_stats(memcg))
+ if (memcg_vmstats_needs_flush(memcg->vmstats))
do_flush_stats(memcg);
}
@@ -770,7 +776,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(
static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
{
/*
- * Deliberately ignore memcg_should_flush_stats() here so that flushing
+ * Deliberately ignore memcg_vmstats_needs_flush() here so that flushing
* in latency-sensitive paths is as cheap as possible.
*/
do_flush_stats(root_mem_cgroup);
@@ -5477,10 +5483,11 @@ static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_c
__mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
}
-static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
+static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(struct mem_cgroup *parent)
{
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *statc, *pstatc;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
- int node;
+ int node, cpu;
int __maybe_unused i;
long error = -ENOMEM;
@@ -5504,6 +5511,14 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all
if (!memcg->vmstats_percpu)
goto fail;
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ if (parent)
+ pstatc = per_cpu_ptr(parent->vmstats_percpu, cpu);
+ statc = per_cpu_ptr(memcg->vmstats_percpu, cpu);
+ statc->parent = parent ? pstatc : NULL;
+ statc->vmstats = memcg->vmstats;
+ }
+
for_each_node(node)
if (alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node))
goto fail;
@@ -5549,7 +5564,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsy
struct mem_cgroup *memcg, *old_memcg;
old_memcg = set_active_memcg(parent);
- memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc();
+ memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc(parent);
set_active_memcg(old_memcg);
if (IS_ERR(memcg))
return ERR_CAST(memcg);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx are
maintainers-supplement-of-zswap-maintainers-update.patch
mm-memcg-optimize-parent-iteration-in-memcg_rstat_updated.patch
mm-swap-enforce-updating-inuse_pages-at-the-end-of-swap_range_free.patch
mm-zswap-remove-unnecessary-trees-cleanups-in-zswap_swapoff.patch
mm-zswap-remove-unused-tree-argument-in-zswap_entry_put.patch
