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Message-ID: <Yw3ihBZ7J/V37eU0@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:12:20 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>
Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: memcontrol: make cgroup_memory_noswap a static
key
On Tue 30-08-22 16:50:38, Kairui Song wrote:
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> 于2022年8月30日周二 15:01写道：
> >
> > On Tue 30-08-22 13:59:49, Kairui Song wrote:
> > > From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> > >
> > > cgroup_memory_noswap is used in many hot path, so make it a static key
> > > to lower the kernel overhead.
> > >
> > > Using 8G of ZRAM as SWAP, benchmark using `perf stat -d -d -d --repeat 100`
> > > with the following code snip in a non-root cgroup:
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <string.h>
> > > #include <linux/mman.h>
> > > #include <sys/mman.h>
> > > #define MB 1024UL * 1024UL
> > > int main(int argc, char **argv){
> > > void *p = mmap(NULL, 8000 * MB, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> > > MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
> > > memset(p, 0xff, 8000 * MB);
> > > madvise(p, 8000 * MB, MADV_PAGEOUT);
> > > memset(p, 0xff, 8000 * MB);
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > Before:
> > > 7,021.43 msec task-clock # 0.967 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.03% )
> > > 4,010 context-switches # 573.853 /sec ( +- 0.01% )
> > > 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
> > > 2,052,057 page-faults # 293.661 K/sec ( +- 0.00% )
> > > 12,616,546,027 cycles # 1.805 GHz ( +- 0.06% ) (39.92%)
> > > 156,823,666 stalled-cycles-frontend # 1.25% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.10% ) (40.25%)
> > > 310,130,812 stalled-cycles-backend # 2.47% backend cycles idle ( +- 4.39% ) (40.73%)
> > > 18,692,516,591 instructions # 1.49 insn per cycle
> > > # 0.01 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.04% ) (40.75%)
> > > 4,907,447,976 branches # 702.283 M/sec ( +- 0.05% ) (40.30%)
> > > 13,002,578 branch-misses # 0.26% of all branches ( +- 0.08% ) (40.48%)
> > > 7,069,786,296 L1-dcache-loads # 1.012 G/sec ( +- 0.03% ) (40.32%)
> > > 649,385,847 L1-dcache-load-misses # 9.13% of all L1-dcache accesses ( +- 0.07% ) (40.10%)
> > > 1,485,448,688 L1-icache-loads # 212.576 M/sec ( +- 0.15% ) (39.49%)
> > > 31,628,457 L1-icache-load-misses # 2.13% of all L1-icache accesses ( +- 0.40% ) (39.57%)
> > > 6,667,311 dTLB-loads # 954.129 K/sec ( +- 0.21% ) (39.50%)
> > > 5,668,555 dTLB-load-misses # 86.40% of all dTLB cache accesses ( +- 0.12% ) (39.03%)
> > > 765 iTLB-loads # 109.476 /sec ( +- 21.81% ) (39.44%)
> > > 4,370,351 iTLB-load-misses # 214320.09% of all iTLB cache accesses ( +- 1.44% ) (39.86%)
> > > 149,207,254 L1-dcache-prefetches # 21.352 M/sec ( +- 0.13% ) (40.27%)
> > >
> > > 7.25869 +- 0.00203 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.03% )
> > >
> > > After:
> > > 6,576.16 msec task-clock # 0.953 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.10% )
> > > 4,020 context-switches # 605.595 /sec ( +- 0.01% )
> > > 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
> > > 2,052,056 page-faults # 309.133 K/sec ( +- 0.00% )
> > > 11,967,619,180 cycles # 1.803 GHz ( +- 0.36% ) (38.76%)
> > > 161,259,240 stalled-cycles-frontend # 1.38% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.27% ) (36.58%)
> > > 253,605,302 stalled-cycles-backend # 2.16% backend cycles idle ( +- 4.45% ) (34.78%)
> > > 19,328,171,892 instructions # 1.65 insn per cycle
> > > # 0.01 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.10% ) (31.46%)
> > > 5,213,967,902 branches # 785.461 M/sec ( +- 0.18% ) (30.68%)
> > > 12,385,170 branch-misses # 0.24% of all branches ( +- 0.26% ) (34.13%)
> > > 7,271,687,822 L1-dcache-loads # 1.095 G/sec ( +- 0.12% ) (35.29%)
> > > 649,873,045 L1-dcache-load-misses # 8.93% of all L1-dcache accesses ( +- 0.11% ) (41.41%)
> > > 1,950,037,608 L1-icache-loads # 293.764 M/sec ( +- 0.33% ) (43.11%)
> > > 31,365,566 L1-icache-load-misses # 1.62% of all L1-icache accesses ( +- 0.39% ) (45.89%)
> > > 6,767,809 dTLB-loads # 1.020 M/sec ( +- 0.47% ) (48.42%)
> > > 6,339,590 dTLB-load-misses # 95.43% of all dTLB cache accesses ( +- 0.50% ) (46.60%)
> > > 736 iTLB-loads # 110.875 /sec ( +- 1.79% ) (48.60%)
> > > 4,314,836 iTLB-load-misses # 518653.73% of all iTLB cache accesses ( +- 0.63% ) (42.91%)
> > > 144,950,156 L1-dcache-prefetches # 21.836 M/sec ( +- 0.37% ) (41.39%)
> > >
> > > 6.89935 +- 0.00703 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.10% )
> >
> > Do you happen to have a perf profile before and after to see which of
> > the paths really benefits from this?
>
> No I don't have a clear profile data about which path benefit the most.
> The performance benchmark result can be stably reproduced, but perf
> record & report & diff doesn't seems too helpful, as I can't see a
> significant change of any single symbols.
This is a good information on its own as it suggests that the overhead
is spilled over multiple places rather than a single hot spot. Good to
have in the changelog.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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