linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] memcg: increase MEMCG_CHARGE

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:17:37 +0000
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] memcg: increase MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH to 64

For several years, MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH was kept at 32 but with bigger
machines and the network intensive workloads requiring througput in
Gbps, 32 is too small and makes the memcg charging path a bottleneck.
For now, increase it to 64 for easy acceptance to 6.0. We will need to
revisit this in future for ever increasing demand of higher performance.

Please note that the memcg charge path drain the per-cpu memcg charge
stock, so there should not be any oom behavior change.

To evaluate the impact of this optimization, on a 72 CPUs machine, we
ran the following workload in a three level of cgroup hierarchy with top
level having min and low setup appropriately. More specifically
memory.min equal to size of netperf binary and memory.low double of
that.

 $ netserver -6
 # 36 instances of netperf with following params
 $ netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K

Results (average throughput of netperf):
Without (6.0-rc1)       10482.7 Mbps
With patch              17064.7 Mbps (62.7% improvement)

With the patch, the throughput improved by 62.7%.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>
---
 include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 4d31ce55b1c0..70ae91188e16 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -354,10 +354,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 };
 
 /*
- * size of first charge trial. "32" comes from vmscan.c's magic value.
- * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons.
+ * size of first charge trial.
+ * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons or dynamic based of the
+ * workload.
  */
-#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 32U
+#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 64U
 
 extern struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup;
 
-- 
2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog