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Message-ID: <CALvZod7B9NFtAZS_cd8pPt0=BUB0sL4WuDtbOhvfMhroGs9PMg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:57:54 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:07 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> To implement per-object slab memory accounting, we need to
> convert slab vmstat counters to bytes. Actually, out of
> 4 levels of counters: global, per-node, per-memcg and per-lruvec
> only two last levels will require byte-sized counters.
> It's because global and per-node counters will be counting the
> number of slab pages, and per-memcg and per-lruvec will be
> counting the amount of memory taken by charged slab objects.
>
> Converting all vmstat counters to bytes or even all slab
> counters to bytes would introduce an additional overhead.
> So instead let's store global and per-node counters
> in pages, and memcg and lruvec counters in bytes.
>
> To make the API clean all access helpers (both on the read
> and write sides) are dealing with bytes.
>
The "dealing with bytes" is only for slab stats or all vmstat stats?
> To avoid back-and-forth conversions a new flavor of read-side
> helpers is introduced, which always returns values in pages:
> node_page_state_pages() and global_node_page_state_pages().
>
> Actually new helpers are just reading raw values. Old helpers are
> simple wrappers, which will complain on an attempt to read
> byte value, because at the moment no one actually needs bytes.
>
> Thanks to Johannes Weiner for the idea of having the byte-sized API
> on top of the page-sized internal storage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> ---
> drivers/base/node.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 10 ++++++++++
> include/linux/vmstat.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
> mm/memcontrol.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> mm/vmstat.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 5 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
> index 5b02f69769e8..e21e31359297 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_vmstat(struct device *dev,
>
> for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
> n += sprintf(buf+n, "%s %lu\n", node_stat_name(i),
> - node_page_state(pgdat, i));
> + node_page_state_pages(pgdat, i));
>
> return n;
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index c4c37fd12104..fa8eb49d9898 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,16 @@ enum node_stat_item {
> NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS
> };
>
> +/*
> + * Returns true if the value is measured in bytes (most vmstat values are
> + * measured in pages). This defines the API part, the internal representation
> + * might be different.
> + */
> +static __always_inline bool vmstat_item_in_bytes(enum node_stat_item item)
> +{
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * We do arithmetic on the LRU lists in various places in the code,
> * so it is important to keep the active lists LRU_ACTIVE higher in
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> index aa961088c551..91220ace31da 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> #include <linux/vm_event_item.h>
> #include <linux/atomic.h>
> #include <linux/static_key.h>
> +#include <linux/mmdebug.h>
>
> extern int sysctl_stat_interval;
>
> @@ -192,7 +193,8 @@ static inline unsigned long global_zone_page_state(enum zone_stat_item item)
> return x;
> }
>
> -static inline unsigned long global_node_page_state(enum node_stat_item item)
> +static inline
> +unsigned long global_node_page_state_pages(enum node_stat_item item)
> {
> long x = atomic_long_read(&vm_node_stat[item]);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> @@ -202,6 +204,13 @@ static inline unsigned long global_node_page_state(enum node_stat_item item)
> return x;
> }
>
> +static inline unsigned long global_node_page_state(enum node_stat_item item)
> +{
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(vmstat_item_in_bytes(item));
> +
> + return global_node_page_state_pages(item);
> +}
> +
> static inline unsigned long zone_page_state(struct zone *zone,
> enum zone_stat_item item)
> {
> @@ -242,9 +251,12 @@ extern unsigned long sum_zone_node_page_state(int node,
> extern unsigned long sum_zone_numa_state(int node, enum numa_stat_item item);
> extern unsigned long node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> enum node_stat_item item);
> +extern unsigned long node_page_state_pages(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> + enum node_stat_item item);
> #else
> #define sum_zone_node_page_state(node, item) global_zone_page_state(item)
> #define node_page_state(node, item) global_node_page_state(item)
> +#define node_page_state_pages(node, item) global_node_page_state_pages(item)
> #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index e8a91e98556b..07d02e61a73e 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -681,13 +681,16 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_node *mctz)
> */
> void __mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int idx, int val)
> {
> - long x;
> + long x, threshold = MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH;
>
> if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> return;
>
> + if (vmstat_item_in_bytes(idx))
> + threshold <<= PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
>From the above am I understanding correctly that even after moving to
byte-level accounting, we can still see stats with potential error
limited by (BATCH-1)*PAGE_SIZE*nr_cpus?
> x = val + __this_cpu_read(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stat[idx]);
> - if (unlikely(abs(x) > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) {
> + if (unlikely(abs(x) > threshold)) {
> struct mem_cgroup *mi;
>
> /*
> @@ -718,7 +721,7 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
> {
> struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn;
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> - long x;
> + long x, threshold = MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH;
>
> pn = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_node, lruvec);
> memcg = pn->memcg;
> @@ -729,8 +732,11 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
> /* Update lruvec */
> __this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stat_local->count[idx], val);
>
> + if (vmstat_item_in_bytes(idx))
> + threshold <<= PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> x = val + __this_cpu_read(pn->lruvec_stat_cpu->count[idx]);
> - if (unlikely(abs(x) > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) {
> + if (unlikely(abs(x) > threshold)) {
> pg_data_t *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
> struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pi;
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> index 80c9b6221535..f1c321e1d6d3 100644
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -341,6 +341,11 @@ void __mod_node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item item,
> long x;
> long t;
>
> + if (vmstat_item_in_bytes(item)) {
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(delta & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
> + delta >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
> + }
> +
> x = delta + __this_cpu_read(*p);
>
> t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
> @@ -398,6 +403,8 @@ void __inc_node_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item item)
> s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_node_stat_diff + item;
> s8 v, t;
>
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(vmstat_item_in_bytes(item));
> +
> v = __this_cpu_inc_return(*p);
> t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
> if (unlikely(v > t)) {
> @@ -442,6 +449,8 @@ void __dec_node_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item item)
> s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_node_stat_diff + item;
> s8 v, t;
>
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(vmstat_item_in_bytes(item));
> +
> v = __this_cpu_dec_return(*p);
> t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
> if (unlikely(v < - t)) {
> @@ -541,6 +550,11 @@ static inline void mod_node_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_node_stat_diff + item;
> long o, n, t, z;
>
> + if (vmstat_item_in_bytes(item)) {
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(delta & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
> + delta >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
> + }
> +
> do {
> z = 0; /* overflow to node counters */
>
> @@ -989,8 +1003,8 @@ unsigned long sum_zone_numa_state(int node,
> /*
> * Determine the per node value of a stat item.
> */
> -unsigned long node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> - enum node_stat_item item)
> +unsigned long node_page_state_pages(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> + enum node_stat_item item)
> {
> long x = atomic_long_read(&pgdat->vm_stat[item]);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> @@ -999,6 +1013,14 @@ unsigned long node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> #endif
> return x;
> }
> +
> +unsigned long node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> + enum node_stat_item item)
> +{
> + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(vmstat_item_in_bytes(item));
> +
> + return node_page_state_pages(pgdat, item);
> +}
So, for non-slab, node_page_state and node_page_state_pages will be
the same but different for slab vmstats. However we should not be
calling node_page_state with slab vmstats because we don't need it,
right?
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
> @@ -1581,7 +1603,7 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
> seq_printf(m, "\n per-node stats");
> for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
> seq_printf(m, "\n %-12s %lu", node_stat_name(i),
> - node_page_state(pgdat, i));
> + node_page_state_pages(pgdat, i));
> }
> }
> seq_printf(m,
> @@ -1702,7 +1724,7 @@ static void *vmstat_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
> #endif
>
> for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
> - v[i] = global_node_page_state(i);
> + v[i] = global_node_page_state_pages(i);
> v += NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS;
>
> global_dirty_limits(v + NR_DIRTY_BG_THRESHOLD,
> --
> 2.25.4
>
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