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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:55:00 -0700
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        vdavydov.dev@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, songmuchun@...edance.com,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, alexs@...nel.org,
        richard.weiyang@...il.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, apopple@...dia.com,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm, memcg: add mem_cgroup_disabled checks in
 vmpressure and swap-related functions

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:11 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri 09-07-21 17:36:24, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > Add mem_cgroup_disabled check in vmpressure, mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap and
> > cgroup_throttle_swaprate functions. This minimizes the memcg overhead in
> > the pagefault and exit_mmap paths when memcgs are disabled using
> > cgroup_disable=memory command-line option.
> > This change results in ~2.1% overhead reduction when running PFT test
>
> What is PFT test?

Christoph Lamenter’s pagefault tool
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/29/294). I'll add the link in the
description for clarity.

>
> > comparing {CONFIG_MEMCG=n, CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP=n} against {CONFIG_MEMCG=y,
> > CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP=y, cgroup_disable=memory} configuration on an 8-core
> > ARM64 Android device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Thanks!

>
> Thanks!
>
> > ---
> >  mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +++
> >  mm/swapfile.c   | 3 +++
> >  mm/vmpressure.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index ae1f5d0cb581..a228cd51c4bd 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -7305,6 +7305,9 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned int nr_pages)
> >       struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> >       unsigned short id;
> >
> > +     if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> > +             return;
> > +
> >       id = swap_cgroup_record(entry, 0, nr_pages);
> >       rcu_read_lock();
> >       memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(id);
> > diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
> > index 1e07d1c776f2..707fa0481bb4 100644
> > --- a/mm/swapfile.c
> > +++ b/mm/swapfile.c
> > @@ -3778,6 +3778,9 @@ void cgroup_throttle_swaprate(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> >       struct swap_info_struct *si, *next;
> >       int nid = page_to_nid(page);
> >
> > +     if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> > +             return;
> > +
> >       if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
> >               return;
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
> > index d69019fc3789..9b172561fded 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmpressure.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
> > @@ -240,7 +240,12 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
> >  void vmpressure(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool tree,
> >               unsigned long scanned, unsigned long reclaimed)
> >  {
> > -     struct vmpressure *vmpr = memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
> > +     struct vmpressure *vmpr;
> > +
> > +     if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> > +             return;
> > +
> > +     vmpr = memcg_to_vmpressure(memcg);
> >
> >       /*
> >        * Here we only want to account pressure that userland is able to
> > --
> > 2.32.0.93.g670b81a890-goog
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs