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authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>2022-10-24 08:28:41 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-01 02:58:40 +0300
commitf1a7941243c102a44e8847e3b94ff4ff3ec56f25 (patch)
tree3d1f4938bbf28c7b35003c1d18bbfce011a61480 /include/trace/events/kmem.h
parent9cd6ffa60256e931503d347006049b8bef508203 (diff)
downloadlinux-f1a7941243c102a44e8847e3b94ff4ff3ec56f25.tar.xz
mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter
Currently mm_struct maintains rss_stats which are updated on page fault and the unmapping codepaths. For page fault codepath the updates are cached per thread with the batch of TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH which is 64. The reason for caching is performance for multithreaded applications otherwise the rss_stats updates may become hotspot for such applications. However this optimization comes with the cost of error margin in the rss stats. The rss_stats for applications with large number of threads can be very skewed. At worst the error margin is (nr_threads * 64) and we have a lot of applications with 100s of threads, so the error margin can be very high. Internally we had to reduce TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH to 32. Recently we started seeing the unbounded errors for rss_stats for specific applications which use TCP rx0cp. It seems like vm_insert_pages() codepath does not sync rss_stats at all. This patch converts the rss_stats into percpu_counter to convert the error margin from (nr_threads * 64) to approximately (nr_cpus ^ 2). However this conversion enable us to get the accurate stats for situations where accuracy is more important than the cpu cost. This patch does not make such tradeoffs - we can just use percpu_counter_add_local() for the updates and percpu_counter_sum() (or percpu_counter_sync() + percpu_counter_read) for the readers. At the moment the readers are either procfs interface, oom_killer and memory reclaim which I think are not performance critical and should be ok with slow read. However I think we can make that change in a separate patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024052841.3291983-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace/events/kmem.h')
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/kmem.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/events/kmem.h b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
index 243073cfc29d..58688768ef0f 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
@@ -346,10 +346,9 @@ TRACE_MM_PAGES
TRACE_EVENT(rss_stat,
TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm,
- int member,
- long count),
+ int member),
- TP_ARGS(mm, member, count),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, member),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(unsigned int, mm_id)
@@ -362,7 +361,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(rss_stat,
__entry->mm_id = mm_ptr_to_hash(mm);
__entry->curr = !!(current->mm == mm);
__entry->member = member;
- __entry->size = (count << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ __entry->size = (percpu_counter_sum_positive(&mm->rss_stat[member])
+ << PAGE_SHIFT);
),
TP_printk("mm_id=%u curr=%d type=%s size=%ldB",