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Message-ID: <BANLkTimFBdg7zo=NbDDA2DLxagM_FCgmDA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:52:21 -0700
From:	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"bsingharora@...il.com" <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] memcg: add memory.scan_stat

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>
>> From e08990dd9ada13cf236bec1ef44b207436434b8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:11:01 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/7] memcg: add memory.scan_stat
>>
>> commit log of commit 0ae5e89 " memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in..."
>> says it adds scanning stats to memory.stat file. But it doesn't because
>> we considered we needed to make a concensus for such new APIs.
>>
>> This patch is a trial to add memory.scan_stat. This shows
>>  - the number of scanned pages
>>  - the number of recleimed pages
>>  - the number of elaplsed time (including sleep/pause time)
>>  for both of direct/soft reclaim and shrinking caused by changing limit
>>  or force_empty.
>>
>> The biggest difference with oringinal Ying's one is that this file
>> can be reset by some write, as
>>
>>  # echo 0 ...../memory.scan_stat
>>
>> [kamezawa@...extal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.scan_stat
>> scanned_pages_by_limit 358470
>> freed_pages_by_limit 180795
>> elapsed_ns_by_limit 21629927
>> scanned_pages_by_system 0
>> freed_pages_by_system 0
>> elapsed_ns_by_system 0
>> scanned_pages_by_shrink 76646
>> freed_pages_by_shrink 38355
>> elappsed_ns_by_shrink 31990670
>
> elapsed?
>
>>
>> total_scanned_pages_by_limit 358470
>> total_freed_pages_by_limit 180795
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_hierarchical 216299275
>> total_scanned_pages_by_system 0
>> total_freed_pages_by_system 0
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_system 0
>> total_scanned_pages_by_shrink 76646
>> total_freed_pages_by_shrink 38355
>> total_elapsed_ns_by_shrink 31990670
>>
>> total_xxxx is for hierarchy management.
>
> For some reason, i feel the opposite where the local stat (like "scanned_pages_by_limit") are reclaimed under hierarchical reclaim. The total_xxx stats are only incremented for root_mem which is the cgroup triggers the hierarchical reclaim. So:
> total_scanned_pages_by_limit: number of pages being scanned while the memcg hits its limit
> scanned_pages_by_limit: number of pages being scanned while one of the memcg's ancestor hits its limit
> am i missing something?
>
>>
>> This will be useful for further memcg developments and need to be
>> developped before we do some complicated rework on LRU/softlimit
>> management.
>>
>> Now, scan/free/elapsed_by_system is incomplete but future works of
>> Johannes at el. will fill remaining information and then, we can
>> look into problems of isolation between memcgs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |   33 +++++++++
>>  include/linux/memcontrol.h       |   16 ++++
>>  include/linux/swap.h             |    6 -
>>  mm/memcontrol.c                  |  135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  mm/vmscan.c                      |   27 ++++++-
>>  5 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: mmotm-0615/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> +++ mmotm-0615/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
>> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
>>
>>  5.2 stat file
>>
>> -memory.stat file includes following statistics
>> +5.2.1 memory.stat file includes following statistics
>>
>>  # per-memory cgroup local status
>>  cache          - # of bytes of page cache memory.
>> @@ -438,6 +438,37 @@ Note:
>>         file_mapped is accounted only when the memory cgroup is owner of page
>>         cache.)
>>
>> +5.2.2 memory.scan_stat
>> +
>> +memory.scan_stat includes statistics information for memory scanning and
>> +freeing, reclaiming. The statistics shows memory scanning information since
>> +memory cgroup creation and can be reset to 0 by writing 0 as
>> +
>> + #echo 0 > ../memory.scan_stat
>> +
>> +This file contains following statistics.
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_limit - # of scanned pages at hitting limit.
>> +freed_pages_by_limit   - # of freed pages at hitting limit.
>> +elapsed_ns_by_limit    - nano sec of elappsed time at LRU scan at
>> +                                  hitting limit.(this includes sleep time.)
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_system        - # of scanned pages by the kernel.
>> +                         (Now, this value means global memory reclaim
>> +                           caused by system memory shortage with a hint
>> +                          of softlimit. "No soft limit" case will be
>> +                          supported in future.)
>> +freed_pages_by_system  - # of freed pages by the kernel.
>> +elapsed_ns_by_system   - nano sec of elappsed time by kernel.
>> +
>> +scanned_pages_by_shrink        - # of scanned pages by shrinking.
>> +                                 (i.e. changes of limit, force_empty, etc.)
>> +freed_pages_by_shrink  - # of freed pages by shirkining.
>> +elappsed_ns_by_shrink  - nano sec of elappsed time at shrinking.
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +
>> +total_xxx includes the statistics of children scanning caused by the cgroup.
>
> based on the code inspection, the total_xxx also includes the cgroup's scan stat as well.
>>
>> +
>> +
>>  5.3 swappiness
>>
>>  Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
>> Index: mmotm-0615/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ mmotm-0615/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> @@ -120,6 +120,22 @@ struct zone_reclaim_stat*
>>  mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_page(struct page *page);
>>  extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>                                        struct task_struct *p);
>> +struct memcg_scanrecord {
>> +       struct mem_cgroup *mem; /* scanend memory cgroup */
>> +       struct mem_cgroup *root; /* scan target hierarchy root */
>> +       int context;            /* scanning context (see memcontrol.c) */
>> +       unsigned long nr_scanned; /* the number of scanned pages */
>> +       unsigned long nr_freed; /* the number of freed pages */
>> +       unsigned long elappsed; /* nsec of time elapsed while scanning */
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +};
>> +
>> +extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> +                                                 gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> +                                                 struct memcg_scanrecord *rec);
>> +extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> +                                               gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> +                                               struct zone *zone,
>> +                                               struct memcg_scanrecord *rec);
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
>>  extern int do_swap_account;
>> Index: mmotm-0615/include/linux/swap.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/include/linux/swap.h
>> +++ mmotm-0615/include/linux/swap.h
>> @@ -253,12 +253,6 @@ static inline void lru_cache_add_file(st
>>  /* linux/mm/vmscan.c */
>>  extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
>>                                        gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask);
>> -extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> -                                                 gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap);
>> -extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> -                                               gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> -                                               struct zone *zone,
>> -                                               unsigned long *nr_scanned);
>>  extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
>>  extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
>>  extern int vm_swappiness;
>> Index: mmotm-0615/mm/memcontrol.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ mmotm-0615/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -203,6 +203,57 @@ struct mem_cgroup_eventfd_list {
>>  static void mem_cgroup_threshold(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
>>  static void mem_cgroup_oom_notify(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
>>
>> +enum {
>> +       SCAN_BY_LIMIT,
>> +       FREED_BY_LIMIT,
>> +       ELAPSED_BY_LIMIT,
>> +
>> +       SCAN_BY_SYSTEM,
>> +       FREED_BY_SYSTEM,
>> +       ELAPSED_BY_SYSTEM,
>> +
>> +       SCAN_BY_SHRINK,
>> +       FREED_BY_SHRINK,
>> +       ELAPSED_BY_SHRINK,
>> +       NR_SCANSTATS,
>> +};
>> +#define __FREED                (1)
>> +#define        __ELAPSED       (2)
>
> /tab/space/
>
>>
>> +
>> +struct scanstat {
>> +       spinlock_t      lock;
>> +       unsigned long   stats[NR_SCANSTATS];    /* local statistics */
>> +       unsigned long   totalstats[NR_SCANSTATS];   /* hierarchical */
>> +};
>> +
>> +const char *scanstat_string[NR_SCANSTATS] = {
>> +       "scanned_pages_by_limit",
>> +       "freed_pages_by_limit",
>> +       "elapsed_ns_by_limit",
>> +
>> +       "scanned_pages_by_system",
>> +       "freed_pages_by_system",
>> +       "elapsed_ns_by_system",
>> +
>> +       "scanned_pages_by_shrink",
>> +       "freed_pages_by_shrink",
>> +       "elappsed_ns_by_shrink",
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +};
>> +
>> +const char *total_scanstat_string[NR_SCANSTATS] = {
>> +       "total_scanned_pages_by_limit",
>> +       "total_freed_pages_by_limit",
>> +       "total_elapsed_ns_by_hierarchical",
>
> typo?
>
>>
>> +
>> +       "total_scanned_pages_by_system",
>> +       "total_freed_pages_by_system",
>> +       "total_elapsed_ns_by_system",
>> +
>> +       "total_scanned_pages_by_shrink",
>> +       "total_freed_pages_by_shrink",
>> +       "total_elapsed_ns_by_shrink",
>> +};
>> +
>>  /*
>>  * The memory controller data structure. The memory controller controls both
>>  * page cache and RSS per cgroup. We would eventually like to provide
>> @@ -264,7 +315,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>>
>>        /* For oom notifier event fd */
>>        struct list_head oom_notify;
>> -
>> +       /* For recording LRU-scan statistics */
>> +       struct scanstat scanstat;
>>        /*
>>         * Should we move charges of a task when a task is moved into this
>>         * mem_cgroup ? And what type of charges should we move ?
>> @@ -1634,6 +1686,28 @@ int mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(struct
>>  }
>>  #endif
>>
>> +
>> +
>> +static void mem_cgroup_record_scanstat(struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>> +{
>> +       struct mem_cgroup *mem;
>> +       int context = rec->context;
>> +
>> +       mem = rec->mem;
>> +       spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +       mem->scanstat.stats[context] += rec->nr_scanned;
>> +       mem->scanstat.stats[context + __FREED] += rec->nr_freed;
>> +       mem->scanstat.stats[context + __ELAPSED] += rec->elappsed;
>
> elapsed?
>
>> +       spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +
>> +       mem = rec->root;
>> +       spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +       mem->scanstat.totalstats[context] += rec->nr_scanned;
>> +       mem->scanstat.totalstats[context + __FREED] += rec->nr_freed;
>> +       mem->scanstat.totalstats[context + __ELAPSED] += rec->elappsed;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +       spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>  * Scan the hierarchy if needed to reclaim memory. We remember the last child
>>  * we reclaimed from, so that we don't end up penalizing one child extensively
>> @@ -1659,8 +1733,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
>>        bool shrink = reclaim_options & MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SHRINK;
>>        bool check_soft = reclaim_options & MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SOFT;
>>        unsigned long excess;
>> -       unsigned long nr_scanned;
>>        int visit;
>> +       struct memcg_scanrecord rec;
>>
>>        excess = res_counter_soft_limit_excess(&root_mem->res) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>
>> @@ -1668,6 +1742,15 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
>>        if (!check_soft && root_mem->memsw_is_minimum)
>>                noswap = true;
>>
>> +       if (shrink)
>> +               rec.context = SCAN_BY_SHRINK;
>> +       else if (check_soft)
>> +               rec.context = SCAN_BY_SYSTEM;
>> +       else
>> +               rec.context = SCAN_BY_LIMIT;
>> +
>> +       rec.root = root_mem;
>
>
>
>>
>> +
>>  again:
>>        if (!shrink) {
>>                visit = 0;
>> @@ -1695,14 +1778,19 @@ again:
>>                        css_put(&victim->css);
>>                        continue;
>>                }
>> +               rec.mem = victim;
>> +               rec.nr_scanned = 0;
>> +               rec.nr_freed = 0;
>> +               rec.elappsed = 0;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>>                /* we use swappiness of local cgroup */
>>                if (check_soft) {
>>                        ret = mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(victim, gfp_mask,
>> -                               noswap, zone, &nr_scanned);
>> -                       *total_scanned += nr_scanned;
>> +                               noswap, zone, &rec);
>> +                       *total_scanned += rec.nr_scanned;
>>                } else
>>                        ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(victim, gfp_mask,
>> -                                               noswap);
>> +                                               noswap, &rec);
>> +               mem_cgroup_record_scanstat(&rec);
>>                css_put(&victim->css);
>>
>>                total += ret;
>> @@ -3757,7 +3845,8 @@ try_to_free:
>>                        ret = -EINTR;
>>                        goto out;
>>                }
>> -               progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, GFP_KERNEL, false);
>> +               progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem,
>> +                               GFP_KERNEL, false, NULL);
>
> So we don't record the stat for force_empty case?
>
>>
>>                if (!progress) {
>>                        nr_retries--;
>>                        /* maybe some writeback is necessary */
>> @@ -4599,6 +4688,34 @@ static int mem_control_numa_stat_open(st
>>  }
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>>
>> +static int mem_cgroup_scan_stat_read(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>> +                               struct cftype *cft,
>> +                               struct cgroup_map_cb *cb)
>> +{
>> +       struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
>> +       int i;
>> +
>> +       for (i = 0; i < NR_SCANSTATS; i++)
>> +               cb->fill(cb, scanstat_string[i], mem->scanstat.stats[i]);
>> +       for (i = 0; i < NR_SCANSTATS; i++)
>> +               cb->fill(cb, total_scanstat_string[i],
>> +                       mem->scanstat.totalstats[i]);
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int mem_cgroup_reset_scan_stat(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>> +                               unsigned int event)
>> +{
>> +       struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
>> +
>> +       spin_lock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +       memset(&mem->scanstat.stats, 0, sizeof(mem->scanstat.stats));
>> +       memset(&mem->scanstat.totalstats, 0, sizeof(mem->scanstat.totalstats));
>> +       spin_unlock(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>> +       return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +
>>  static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[] = {
>>        {
>>                .name = "usage_in_bytes",
>> @@ -4669,6 +4786,11 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[]
>>                .mode = S_IRUGO,
>>        },
>>  #endif
>> +       {
>> +               .name = "scan_stat",
>> +               .read_map = mem_cgroup_scan_stat_read,
>> +               .trigger = mem_cgroup_reset_scan_stat,
>> +       },
>>  };
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
>> @@ -4932,6 +5054,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *
>>        atomic_set(&mem->refcnt, 1);
>>        mem->move_charge_at_immigrate = 0;
>>        mutex_init(&mem->thresholds_lock);
>> +       spin_lock_init(&mem->scanstat.lock);
>>        return &mem->css;
>>  free_out:
>>        __mem_cgroup_free(mem);
>> Index: mmotm-0615/mm/vmscan.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- mmotm-0615.orig/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ mmotm-0615/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -2199,9 +2199,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct z
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>>
>>  unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>> -                                               gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> -                                               struct zone *zone,
>> -                                               unsigned long *nr_scanned)
>> +                                       gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
>> +                                       struct zone *zone,
>> +                                       struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>>  {
>>        struct scan_control sc = {
>>                .nr_scanned = 0,
>> @@ -2213,6 +2213,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>>                .order = 0,
>>                .mem_cgroup = mem,
>>        };
>> +       unsigned long start, end;
>>
>>        sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
>>                        (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
>> @@ -2221,6 +2222,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>>                                                      sc.may_writepage,
>>                                                      sc.gfp_mask);
>>
>> +       start = sched_clock();
>>        /*
>>         * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
>>         * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
>> @@ -2229,19 +2231,27 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon
>>         * the priority and make it zero.
>>         */
>>        shrink_zone(0, zone, &sc);
>> +       end = sched_clock();
>> +
>> +       if (rec) {
>> +               rec->nr_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
>
>
>>
>> +               rec->nr_freed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> +               rec->elappsed += end - start;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +       }
>>
>>        trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
>>
>> -       *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
>>        return sc.nr_reclaimed;
>>  }
>>
>>  unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
>>                                           gfp_t gfp_mask,
>> -                                          bool noswap)
>> +                                          bool noswap,
>> +                                          struct memcg_scanrecord *rec)
>>  {
>>        struct zonelist *zonelist;
>>        unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>> +       unsigned long start, end;
>>        int nid;
>>        struct scan_control sc = {
>>                .may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
>> @@ -2259,6 +2269,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
>>                .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask,
>>        };
>>
>> +       start = sched_clock();
>>        /*
>>         * Unlike direct reclaim via alloc_pages(), memcg's reclaim doesn't
>>         * take care of from where we get pages. So the node where we start the
>> @@ -2273,6 +2284,12 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
>>                                            sc.gfp_mask);
>>
>>        nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc, &shrink);
>> +       end = sched_clock();
>> +       if (rec) {
>> +               rec->nr_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
>
> sc.nr_scanned only contains the nr_scanned of last priority do_try_to_free_pages(). we need to reset it to total_scanned before return. I am looking at v3.0-rc3 .
>
>>
>> +               rec->nr_freed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
>> +               rec->elappsed += end - start;
>
> elapsed?
>>
>> +       }
>>
>>        trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);
>>
>>
> --Ying
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