linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: correct calculation of wb's bg

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Message-ID: <20240503093056.6povgn2shvqzpedj@quack3>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 11:30:56 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
Cc: willy@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org,
	jack@...e.cz, hcochran@...nelspring.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
	mszeredi@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: correct calculation of wb's bg_thresh in
 cgroup domain

On Thu 25-04-24 21:17:22, Kemeng Shi wrote:
> The wb_calc_thresh is supposed to calculate wb's share of bg_thresh in
> global domain. To calculate wb's share of bg_thresh in cgroup domain,
> it's more reasonable to use __wb_calc_thresh in which way we calculate
> dirty_thresh in cgroup domain in balance_dirty_pages().
> 
> Consider following domain hierarchy:
>                 global domain (> 20G)
>                 /                 \
>         cgroup domain1(10G)     cgroup domain2(10G)
>                 |                 |
> bdi            wb1               wb2
> Assume wb1 and wb2 has the same bandwidth.
> We have global domain bg_thresh > 2G, cgroup domain bg_thresh 1G.
> Then we have:
> wb's thresh in global domain = 2G * (wb bandwidth) / (system bandwidth)
> = 2G * 1/2 = 1G
> wb's thresh in cgroup domain = 1G * (wb bandwidth) / (system bandwidth)
> = 1G * 1/2 = 0.5G
> At last, wb1 and wb2 will be limited at 0.5G, the system will be limited
> at 1G which is less than global domain bg_thresh 2G.

This was a bit hard to understand for me so I'd rephrase it as:

wb_calc_thresh() is calculating wb's share of bg_thresh in the global
domain. However in case of cgroup writeback this is not the right thing to
do. Consider the following domain hierarchy:

                global domain (> 20G)
                /                 \
          cgroup1 (10G)     cgroup2 (10G)
                |                 |
bdi            wb1               wb2

and assume wb1 and wb2 have the same bandwidth and the background threshold
is set at 10%. The bg_thresh of cgroup1 and cgroup2 is going to be 1G. Now
because wb_calc_thresh(mdtc->wb, mdtc->bg_thresh) calculates per-wb
threshold in the global domain as (wb bandwidth) / (domain bandwidth) it
returns bg_thresh for wb1 as 0.5G although it has nobody to compete against
in cgroup1.

Fix the problem by calculating wb's share of bg_thresh in the cgroup
domain.

> Test as following:
> /* make it easier to observe the issue */
> echo 300000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
> echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
> 
> /* run fio in wb1 */
> cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> echo "+memory +io" > cgroup.subtree_control
> mkdir group1
> cd group1
> echo 10G > memory.high
> echo 10G > memory.max
> echo $$ > cgroup.procs
> mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdb
> mount /dev/vdb /bdi1/
> fio -name test -filename=/bdi1/file -size=600M -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \
> -iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=600 -invalidate=0
> 
> /* run fio in wb2 with a new shell */
> cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> mkdir group2
> cd group2
> echo 10G > memory.high
> echo 10G > memory.max
> echo $$ > cgroup.procs
> mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdc
> mount /dev/vdc /bdi2/
> fio -name test -filename=/bdi2/file -size=600M -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \
> -iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=600 -invalidate=0
> 
> Before fix, the wrttien pages of wb1 and wb2 reported from
> toos/writeback/wb_monitor.py keep growing. After fix, rare written pages
> are accumulated.
> There is no obvious change in fio result.
> 
> Fixes: 74d369443325 ("writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()")
> Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>

Besides the changelog rephrasing the change looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index 2a3b68aae336..14893b20d38c 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>  		if (mdtc->dirty > mdtc->bg_thresh)
>  			return true;
>  
> -		thresh = wb_calc_thresh(mdtc->wb, mdtc->bg_thresh);
> +		thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(mdtc, mdtc->bg_thresh);
>  		if (thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error())
>  			reclaimable = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE);
>  		else
> -- 
> 2.30.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR