[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ms/mm/vmscan.c: clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Wed Sep 5 12:37:15 MSK 2018


The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-862.11.6.vz7.71.x-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
after rh7-3.10.0-862.11.6.vz7.71.8
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commit 9fd4054e4a601860519c42e4fa714d5be1e98515
Author: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 5 12:37:15 2018 +0300

    ms/mm/vmscan.c: clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg
    
    ms commit f90280d6b796
    
    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 at 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 at virtuozzo.com>
    
    Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com>
    Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb at google.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
    Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
    Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang at intel.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik at fb.com>
    Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing at baidu.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
    Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka at chromium.org>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
    Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne at nexb.com>
    Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro at fb.com>
    Cc: Sahitya Tummala <stummala at codeaurora.org>
    Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
    Cc: Waiman Long <longman at redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-88027
    
    Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
    
    =====================
    Patchset description:
    
    Port "Improve shrink_slab() scalability" patchset
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-88027
    
    This is backport of the patchset improving the performance
    of overcommited containers with many memcgs and mounts.
    The original set is in Linus' tree, and came into 4.19-rc1.
    
    Kirill Tkhai (12):
          mm: assign id to every memcg-aware shrinker
          mm/memcontrol.c: move up for_each_mem_cgroup{, _tree} defines
          mm, memcg: assign memcg-aware shrinkers bitmap to memcg
          fs: propagate shrinker::id to list_lru
          mm/list_lru.c: add memcg argument to list_lru_from_kmem()
          mm/list_lru: pass dst_memcg argument to memcg_drain_list_lru_node()
          mm/list_lru.c: pass lru argument to memcg_drain_list_lru_node()
          mm/list_lru.c: set bit in memcg shrinker bitmap on first list_lru item appearance
          mm/memcontrol.c: export mem_cgroup_is_root()
          mm/vmscan.c: iterate only over charged shrinkers during memcg shrink_slab()
          mm: add SHRINK_EMPTY shrinker methods return value
          mm/vmscan.c: clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg
    
    Vladimir Davydov (1):
          mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |  2 ++
 mm/vmscan.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index dec66d859df8..a1baff607b68 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -827,6 +827,8 @@ void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid, int shrinker_id)
 
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		map = rcu_dereference(memcg->info.nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_map);
+		/* Pairs with smp mb in shrink_slab() */
+		smp_mb__before_atomic();
 		set_bit(shrinker_id, map->map);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index da28fc98f0a0..b7a463b5e508 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -464,8 +464,30 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 		}
 
 		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)) {


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