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authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>2018-08-18 01:48:25 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-18 02:20:31 +0300
commitf90280d6b7963fa8925258ed66b4f567fe73dfea (patch)
tree82d475279fb4781f3a48de216a683f3e1c662caa /mm/vmscan.c
parent9b996468cfdba09f688f52dba4287de596194613 (diff)
downloadlinux-f90280d6b7963fa8925258ed66b4f567fe73dfea.tar.xz
mm/vmscan.c: clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg
To avoid further unneed calls of do_shrink_slab() for shrinkers, which already do not have any charged objects in a memcg, their bits have to be cleared. This patch introduces a lockless mechanism to do that without races without parallel list lru add. After do_shrink_slab() returns SHRINK_EMPTY the first time, we clear the bit and call it once again. Then we restore the bit, if the new return value is different. Note, that single smp_mb__after_atomic() in shrink_slab_memcg() covers two situations: 1)list_lru_add() shrink_slab_memcg list_add_tail() for_each_set_bit() <--- read bit do_shrink_slab() <--- missed list update (no barrier) <MB> <MB> set_bit() do_shrink_slab() <--- seen list update This situation, when the first do_shrink_slab() sees set bit, but it doesn't see list update (i.e., race with the first element queueing), is rare. So we don't add <MB> before the first call of do_shrink_slab() instead of this to do not slow down generic case. Also, it's need the second call as seen in below in (2). 2)list_lru_add() shrink_slab_memcg() list_add_tail() ... set_bit() ... ... for_each_set_bit() do_shrink_slab() do_shrink_slab() clear_bit() ... ... ... list_lru_add() ... list_add_tail() clear_bit() <MB> <MB> set_bit() do_shrink_slab() The barriers guarantee that the second do_shrink_slab() in the right side task sees list update if really cleared the bit. This case is drawn in the code comment. [Results/performance of the patchset] After the whole patchset applied the below test shows signify increase of performance: $echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.use_hierarchy $mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct $echo 4000M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes $for i in `seq 0 4000`; do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/$i; echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/ct/$i/cgroup.procs; mkdir -p s/$i; mount -t tmpfs $i s/$i; touch s/$i/file; done Then, 5 sequential calls of drop caches: $time echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 1)Before: 0.00user 13.78system 0:13.78elapsed 99%CPU 0.00user 5.59system 0:05.60elapsed 99%CPU 0.00user 5.48system 0:05.48elapsed 99%CPU 0.00user 8.35system 0:08.35elapsed 99%CPU 0.00user 8.34system 0:08.35elapsed 99%CPU 2)After 0.00user 1.10system 0:01.10elapsed 99%CPU 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 64%CPU 0.00user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 82%CPU 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 64%CPU 0.00user 0.01system 0:00.01elapsed 82%CPU The results show the performance increases at least in 548 times. Shakeel Butt tested this patchset with fork-bomb on his configuration: > I created 255 memcgs, 255 ext4 mounts and made each memcg create a > file containing few KiBs on corresponding mount. Then in a separate > memcg of 200 MiB limit ran a fork-bomb. > > I ran the "perf record -ag -- sleep 60" and below are the results: > > Without the patch series: > Samples: 4M of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 3279403076005 > + 36.40% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_slab > + 18.97% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] list_lru_count_one > + 6.75% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] super_cache_count > + 0.49% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock > + 0.44% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_iter > + 0.27% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read > + 0.21% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] osq_lock > + 0.13% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shmem_unused_huge_count > + 0.08% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node_memcg > + 0.08% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node > > With the patch series: > Samples: 4M of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 2756866824946 > + 47.49% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock > + 30.72% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read > + 9.51% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_iter > + 1.69% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node_memcg > + 1.35% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_protected > + 1.05% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath > + 0.85% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock > + 0.78% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lruvec_lru_size > + 0.57% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node > + 0.54% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queue_work_on > + 0.46% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_slab_memcg [ktkhai@virtuozzo.com: v9] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153112561772.4097.11011071937553113003.stgit@localhost.localdomain Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153063070859.1818.11870882950920963480.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c26
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 8199e1b9a204..93fdd0375b64 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -596,8 +596,30 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
continue;
ret = do_shrink_slab(&sc, shrinker, priority);
- if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY)
- ret = 0;
+ if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY) {
+ clear_bit(i, map->map);
+ /*
+ * After the shrinker reported that it had no objects to
+ * free, but before we cleared the corresponding bit in
+ * the memcg shrinker map, a new object might have been
+ * added. To make sure, we have the bit set in this
+ * case, we invoke the shrinker one more time and reset
+ * the bit if it reports that it is not empty anymore.
+ * The memory barrier here pairs with the barrier in
+ * memcg_set_shrinker_bit():
+ *
+ * list_lru_add() shrink_slab_memcg()
+ * list_add_tail() clear_bit()
+ * <MB> <MB>
+ * set_bit() do_shrink_slab()
+ */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+ ret = do_shrink_slab(&sc, shrinker, priority);
+ if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY)
+ ret = 0;
+ else
+ memcg_set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, i);
+ }
freed += ret;
if (rwsem_is_contended(&shrinker_rwsem)) {