linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: Add the missing numa stat of anon and file for cgroup v2

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Message-ID: <CALvZod5_1nGJ2-QfSnYm4rCB+qvMEKAuVJrCeCyv_vQs7EoYfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:55:20 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: Add the missing numa stat
 of anon and file for cgroup v2

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 8:52 PM Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:02 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:46 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > In the cgroup v1, we have a numa_stat interface. This is useful for
> > > providing visibility into the numa locality information within an
> > > memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical
> > > node. One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by
> > > combining this information with the application's CPU allocation.
> > > But the cgroup v2 does not. So this patch adds the missing information.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > I am actually working on exposing this info on v2 as well.
> >
> > >  mm/memcontrol.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > index 75cd1a1e66c8..c779673f29b2 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > @@ -1492,10 +1492,34 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > >         return false;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > +static unsigned long memcg_node_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> > > +                                          unsigned int nid,
> > > +                                          enum node_stat_item idx)
> > > +{
> > > +       long x;
> > > +       struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn;
> > > +       struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(nid));
> > > +
> > > +       VM_BUG_ON(nid >= nr_node_ids);
> > > +
> > > +       pn = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_node, lruvec);
> > > +       x = atomic_long_read(&pn->lruvec_stat[idx]);
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > +       if (x < 0)
> > > +               x = 0;
> > > +#endif
> > > +       return x;
> > > +}
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > >  static char *memory_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > >  {
> > >         struct seq_buf s;
> > >         int i;
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > +       int nid;
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > >         seq_buf_init(&s, kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL), PAGE_SIZE);
> > >         if (!s.buffer)
> > > @@ -1512,12 +1536,30 @@ static char *memory_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > >          * Current memory state:
> > >          */
> > >
> >
> > Let's not break the parsers of memory.stat. I would prefer a separate
> > interface like v1 i.e. memory.numa_stat.
>
> It is also a good idea to expose a new interface like memory.numa_stat.
>
> >
> > > -       seq_buf_printf(&s, "anon %llu\n",
> > > +       seq_buf_printf(&s, "anon %llu",
> > >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_ANON_MAPPED) *
> > >                        PAGE_SIZE);
> > > -       seq_buf_printf(&s, "file %llu\n",
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > +       for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
> > > +               seq_buf_printf(&s, " N%d=%llu", nid,
> > > +                              (u64)memcg_node_page_state(memcg, nid,
> > > +                                                         NR_ANON_MAPPED) *
> > > +                              PAGE_SIZE);
> > > +#endif
> > > +       seq_buf_putc(&s, '\n');
> > > +
> > > +       seq_buf_printf(&s, "file %llu",
> > >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_PAGES) *
> > >                        PAGE_SIZE);
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > +       for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
> > > +               seq_buf_printf(&s, " N%d=%llu", nid,
> > > +                              (u64)memcg_node_page_state(memcg, nid,
> > > +                                                         NR_FILE_PAGES) *
> > > +                              PAGE_SIZE);
> > > +#endif
> > > +       seq_buf_putc(&s, '\n');
> > > +
> >
> > The v1's numa_stat exposes the LRUs, why NR_ANON_MAPPED and NR_FILE_PAGES?
>
> If we want to expose the anon per node, we need to add inactive anon and
> active anon together. Why not use NR_ANON_MAPPED directly?
>

Active anon plus inactive anon is not equal to NR_ANON_MAPPED. The
shmem related memory is on anon LRUs but not accounted in
NR_ANON_MAPPED.

Similarly file LRU can contain MADV_FREE pages which are not accounted
in NR_FILE_PAGES.

> >
> > Also I think exposing slab_[un]reclaimable per node would be beneficial as well.
>
> Yeah, I agree with you. Maybe kernel_stack and percpu also should
> be exposed.
>
> >
> > >         seq_buf_printf(&s, "kernel_stack %llu\n",
> > >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB) *
> > >                        1024);
> > > --
> > > 2.20.1
> > >
>
>
>
> --
> Yours,
> Muchun