linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory uncharging

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:01:50 +0100
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory uncharging

We've noticed a quite sensible performance overhead on some hosts
with significant network traffic when socket memory accounting
is enabled.

Perf top shows that socket memory uncharging path is hot:
  2.13%  [kernel]                [k] page_counter_cancel
  1.14%  [kernel]                [k] __sk_mem_reduce_allocated
  1.14%  [kernel]                [k] _raw_spin_lock
  0.87%  [kernel]                [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
  0.84%  [kernel]                [k] tcp_ack
  0.84%  [kernel]                [k] ixgbe_poll
  0.83%  < workload >
  0.82%  [kernel]                [k] enqueue_entity
  0.68%  [kernel]                [k] __fget
  0.68%  [kernel]                [k] tcp_delack_timer_handler
  0.67%  [kernel]                [k] __schedule
  0.60%  < workload >
  0.59%  [kernel]                [k] __inet6_lookup_established
  0.55%  [kernel]                [k] __switch_to
  0.55%  [kernel]                [k] menu_select
  0.54%  libc-2.20.so            [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned

To address this issue, the existing per-cpu stock infrastructure
can be used.

refill_stock() can be called from mem_cgroup_uncharge_skmem()
to move charge to a per-cpu stock instead of calling atomic
page_counter_uncharge().

To prevent the uncontrolled growth of per-cpu stocks,
refill_stock() will explicitly drain the cached charge,
if the cached value exceeds CHARGE_BATCH.

This allows significantly optimize the load:
  1.21%  [kernel]                [k] _raw_spin_lock
  1.01%  [kernel]                [k] ixgbe_poll
  0.92%  [kernel]                [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
  0.90%  [kernel]                [k] enqueue_entity
  0.86%  [kernel]                [k] tcp_ack
  0.85%  < workload >
  0.74%  perf-11120.map          [.] 0x000000000061bf24
  0.73%  [kernel]                [k] __schedule
  0.67%  [kernel]                [k] __fget
  0.63%  [kernel]                [k] __inet6_lookup_established
  0.62%  [kernel]                [k] menu_select
  0.59%  < workload >
  0.59%  [kernel]                [k] __switch_to
  0.57%  libc-2.20.so            [.] __memcpy_avx_unaligned

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@...com
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b9cf3cf4a3d0..a69d23082abf 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1792,6 +1792,9 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
 	}
 	stock->nr_pages += nr_pages;
 
+	if (stock->nr_pages > CHARGE_BATCH)
+		drain_stock(stock);
+
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
@@ -5886,8 +5889,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_skmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
 
 	this_cpu_sub(memcg->stat->count[MEMCG_SOCK], nr_pages);
 
-	page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, nr_pages);
-	css_put_many(&memcg->css, nr_pages);
+	refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
 }
 
 static int __init cgroup_memory(char *s)
-- 
2.13.5