Now, memory cgroup increments css(cgroup subsys state)'s reference count
per a charged page. And the reference count is kept until the page is
uncharged. But this has 2 bad effect.
1. Because css_get/put calls atomic_inc()/dec, heavy call of them
on large smp will not scale well.
2. Because css's refcnt cannot be in a state as "ready-to-release",
cgroup's notify_on_release handler can't work with memcg.
3. css's refcnt is atomic_t, it means smaller than 32bit. Maybe too small.
This has been a problem since the 1st merge of memcg.
This is a trial to remove css's refcnt per a page. Even if we remove
refcnt, pre_destroy() does enough synchronization as
- check res->usage == 0.
- check no pages on LRU.
This patch removes css's refcnt per page. Even after this patch, at the
1st look, it seems css_get() is still called in try_charge().
But the logic is.
- If a memcg of mm->owner is cached one, consume_stock() will work.
At success, return immediately.
- If consume_stock returns false, css_get() is called and go to
slow path which may be blocked. At the end of slow path,
css_put() is called and restart from the start if necessary.
So, in the fast path, we don't call css_get() and can avoid access to
shared counter. This patch can make the most possible case fast.
Here is a result of multi-threaded page fault benchmark.
[Before]
25.32% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c
9.30% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
8.02% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm <=====(*)
7.83% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock
5.38% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __css_put
5.29% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
4.92% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
4.24% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read
3.53% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] css_put
2.11% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_mm_fault
1.76% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rmqueue
1.64% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
[After]
28.41% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c
10.08% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
9.58% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock
9.38% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
5.86% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
5.65% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read
2.82% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_mm_fault
2.64% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_add_lru_list
2.48% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
Then, 8.02% of try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() disappears because this patch
removes css_tryget() in it. (But yes, this is an extreme case.)
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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