linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg

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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:14:42 -0700
From:   Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To:     Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com>
Cc:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        "oe-lkp@...ts.linux.dev" <oe-lkp@...ts.linux.dev>,
        lkp <lkp@...el.com>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        "Yin, Fengwei" <fengwei.yin@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        Ivan Babrou <ivan@...udflare.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        "kernel-team@...udflare.com" <kernel-team@...udflare.com>,
        Wei Xu <weixugc@...gle.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:56 PM Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@...el.com> wrote:
>
> hi, Yosry Ahmed,
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 07:13:50PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >
> > I still could not run the benchmark, but I used a version of
> > fallocate1.c that does 1 million iterations. I ran 100 in parallel.
> > This showed ~13% regression with the patch, so not the same as the
> > will-it-scale version, but it could be an indicator.
> >
> > With that, I did not see any improvement with the fixlet above or
> > ___cacheline_aligned_in_smp. So you can scratch that.
> >
> > I did, however, see some improvement with reducing the indirection
> > layers by moving stats_updates directly into struct mem_cgroup. The
> > regression in my manual testing went down to 9%. Still not great, but
> > I am wondering how this reflects on the benchmark. If you're able to
> > test it that would be great, the diff is below. Meanwhile I am still
> > looking for other improvements that can be made.
>
> we applied previous patch-set as below:
>
> c5f50d8b23c79 (linux-review/Yosry-Ahmed/mm-memcg-change-flush_next_time-to-flush_last_time/20231010-112257) mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushing
> ac8a48ba9e1ca mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent()
> 51d74c18a9c61 mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg
> 130617edc1cd1 mm: memcg: move vmstats structs definition above flushing code
> 26d0ee342efc6 mm: memcg: change flush_next_time to flush_last_time
> 25478183883e6 Merge branch 'mm-nonmm-unstable' into mm-everything   <---- the base our tool picked for the patch set
>
> I tried to apply below patch to either 51d74c18a9c61 or c5f50d8b23c79,
> but failed. could you guide how to apply this patch?
> Thanks
>

Thanks for looking into this. I rebased the diff on top of
c5f50d8b23c79. Please find it attached.

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