netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net-memcg: avoid stalls when under memory pressure

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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:28:16 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, weiwan@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com,
        ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net-memcg: avoid stalls when under memory pressure

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:26 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 9:03 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > As Shakeel explains the commit under Fixes had the unintended
> > side-effect of no longer pre-loading the cached memory allowance.
> > Even tho we previously dropped the first packet received when
> > over memory limit - the consecutive ones would get thru by using
> > the cache. The charging was happening in batches of 128kB, so
> > we'd let in 128kB (truesize) worth of packets per one drop.
> >
> > After the change we no longer force charge, there will be no
> > cache filling side effects. This causes significant drops and
> > connection stalls for workloads which use a lot of page cache,
> > since we can't reclaim page cache under GFP_NOWAIT.
> >
> > Some of the latency can be recovered by improving SACK reneg
> > handling but nowhere near enough to get back to the pre-5.15
> > performance (the application I'm experimenting with still
> > sees 5-10x worst latency).
> >
> > Apply the suggested workaround of using GFP_ATOMIC. We will now
> > be more permissive than previously as we'll drop _no_ packets
> > in softirq when under pressure. But I can't think of any good
> > and simple way to address that within networking.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221012163300.795e7b86@kernel.org/
> > Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> > Fixes: 4b1327be9fe5 ("net-memcg: pass in gfp_t mask to mem_cgroup_charge_skmem()")
> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > CC: weiwan@...gle.com
> > CC: shakeelb@...gle.com
> > CC: ncardwell@...gle.com
> > CC: ycheng@...gle.com
> > ---
> >  include/net/sock.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> > index 9e464f6409a7..22f8bab583dd 100644
> > --- a/include/net/sock.h
> > +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> > @@ -2585,7 +2585,7 @@ static inline gfp_t gfp_any(void)
> >
> >  static inline gfp_t gfp_memcg_charge(void)
> >  {
> > -       return in_softirq() ? GFP_NOWAIT : GFP_KERNEL;
> > +       return in_softirq() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
> >  }
> >
>
> How about just using gfp_any() and we can remove gfp_memcg_charge()?

How about keeping gfp_memcg_charge() and adding a comment on its intent ?

gfp_any() is very generic :/