linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/5] memcg: synchronize per-zone iterator access by a spinlock

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Message-ID: <50A2DFDC.90402@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:03:40 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] memcg: synchronize per-zone iterator access by a spinlock

(2012/11/14 0:30), Michal Hocko wrote:
> per-zone per-priority iterator is aimed at coordinating concurrent
> reclaimers on the same hierarchy (or the global reclaim when all
> groups are reclaimed) so that all groups get reclaimed evenly as
> much as possible. iter->position holds the last css->id visited
> and iter->generation signals the completed tree walk (when it is
> incremented).
> Concurrent reclaimers are supposed to provide a reclaim cookie which
> holds the reclaim priority and the last generation they saw. If cookie's
> generation doesn't match the iterator's view then other concurrent
> reclaimer already did the job and the tree walk is done for that
> priority.
> 
> This scheme works nicely in most cases but it is not raceless. Two
> racing reclaimers can see the same iter->position and so bang on the
> same group. iter->generation increment is not serialized as well so a
> reclaimer can see an updated iter->position with and old generation so
> the iteration might be restarted from the root of the hierarchy.
> 
> The simplest way to fix this issue is to synchronise access to the
> iterator by a lock. This implementation uses per-zone per-priority
> spinlock which linearizes only directly racing reclaimers which use
> reclaim cookies so the effect of the new locking should be really
> minimal.
> 
> I have to note that I haven't seen this as a real issue so far. The
> primary motivation for the change is different. The following patch
> will change the way how the iterator is implemented and css->id
> iteration will be replaced cgroup generic iteration which requires
> storing mem_cgroup pointer into iterator and that requires reference
> counting and so concurrent access will be a problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


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