linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock for memcg

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Date:   Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:15:00 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        tj@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com, khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru,
        daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com, yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com,
        willy@...radead.org
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Arun KS <arunks@...eaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock for memcg

Currently memcg still use per node pgdat->lru_lock to guard its lruvec.
That causes some lru_lock contention in a high container density system.

If we can use per lruvec lock, that could relief much of the lru_lock
contention.

The later patches will replace the pgdat->lru_lock with lruvec->lru_lock
and show the performance benefit by benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 ++
 mm/mmzone.c            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 07b784ffbb14..a13b8a602ee5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ struct lruvec {
 	unsigned long			refaults;
 	/* Various lruvec state flags (enum lruvec_flags) */
 	unsigned long			flags;
+	/* per lruvec lru_lock for memcg */
+	spinlock_t			lru_lock;
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/mmzone.c b/mm/mmzone.c
index 4686fdc23bb9..3750a90ed4a0 100644
--- a/mm/mmzone.c
+++ b/mm/mmzone.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ void lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec)
 	enum lru_list lru;
 
 	memset(lruvec, 0, sizeof(struct lruvec));
+	spin_lock_init(&lruvec->lru_lock);
 
 	for_each_lru(lru)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lruvec->lists[lru]);
-- 
1.8.3.1