This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/vmscan.c: set correct defer count for shrinker
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-vmscan.c-set-correct-defer-count-for-shrinker.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5f33a0803bbd781de916f5c7448cbbbbc763d911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:41:50 -0800
Subject: mm/vmscan.c: set correct defer count for shrinker
From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
commit 5f33a0803bbd781de916f5c7448cbbbbc763d911 upstream.
Our system uses significantly more slab memory with memcg enabled with
the latest kernel. With 3.10 kernel, slab uses 2G memory, while with
4.6 kernel, 6G memory is used. The shrinker has problem. Let's see we
have two memcg for one shrinker. In do_shrink_slab:
1. Check cg1. nr_deferred = 0, assume total_scan = 700. batch size
is 1024, then no memory is freed. nr_deferred = 700
2. Check cg2. nr_deferred = 700. Assume freeable = 20, then
total_scan = 10 or 40. Let's assume it's 10. No memory is freed.
nr_deferred = 10.
The deferred share of cg1 is lost in this case. kswapd will free no
memory even run above steps again and again.
The fix makes sure one memcg's deferred share isn't lost.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2414be961b5d25892060315fbb56bb19d81d0c07.1476227351.git.shli@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru
int nid = shrinkctl->nid;
long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
: SHRINK_BATCH;
+ long scanned = 0, next_deferred;
freeable = shrinker->count_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
if (freeable == 0)
@@ -298,7 +299,9 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru
pr_err("shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n",
shrinker->scan_objects, total_scan);
total_scan = freeable;
- }
+ next_deferred = nr;
+ } else
+ next_deferred = total_scan;
/*
* We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers
@@ -355,17 +358,22 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru
count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
total_scan -= nr_to_scan;
+ scanned += nr_to_scan;
cond_resched();
}
+ if (next_deferred >= scanned)
+ next_deferred -= scanned;
+ else
+ next_deferred = 0;
/*
* move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a
* manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
* scan, there is no need to do an update.
*/
- if (total_scan > 0)
- new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
+ if (next_deferred > 0)
+ new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(next_deferred,
&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
else
new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shli@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/mm-vmscan.c-set-correct-defer-count-for-shrinker.patch
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