netdev - Re: [net] 4890b686f4: netperf.Throughput

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:46:44 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
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        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
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        Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@...el.com>, Ying Xu <yinxu@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net] 4890b686f4: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -69.4% regression

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 09:48:01AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 9:26 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> > >
> >
> > I simply did the following and got much better results.
> >
> > But I am not sure if updates to ->usage are really needed that often...
> 
> I suspect we need to improve the per-cpu memcg stock usage here. Were
> the updates mostly from uncharge path or charge path or that's
> irrelevant?
> 
> I think doing full drain (i.e. drain_stock()) within __refill_stock()
> when the local cache is larger than MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH is not best.
> Rather we should always keep at least MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH for such
> scenarios.

+1, really good point.