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authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>2022-04-21 16:35:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-04-21 20:01:09 -0700
commit9b3016154c913b2e7ec5ae5c9a42eb9e732d86aa (patch)
tree30daf9f4044367a220606c6dd7b29c755f57b7e7 /mm/workingset.c
parentd173d5417fb67411e623d394aab986d847e47dad (diff)
memcg: sync flush only if periodic flush is delayed
Daniel Dao has reported [1] a regression on workloads that may trigger a lot of refaults (anon and file). The underlying issue is that flushing rstat is expensive. Although rstat flush are batched with (nr_cpus * MEMCG_BATCH) stat updates, it seems like there are workloads which genuinely do stat updates larger than batch value within short amount of time. Since the rstat flush can happen in the performance critical codepaths like page faults, such workload can suffer greatly. This patch fixes this regression by making the rstat flushing conditional in the performance critical codepaths. More specifically, the kernel relies on the async periodic rstat flusher to flush the stats and only if the periodic flusher is delayed by more than twice the amount of its normal time window then the kernel allows rstat flushing from the performance critical codepaths. Now the question: what are the side-effects of this change? The worst that can happen is the refault codepath will see 4sec old lruvec stats and may cause false (or missed) activations of the refaulted page which may under-or-overestimate the workingset size. Though that is not very concerning as the kernel can already miss or do false activations. There are two more codepaths whose flushing behavior is not changed by this patch and we may need to come to them in future. One is the writeback stats used by dirty throttling and second is the deactivation heuristic in the reclaim. For now keeping an eye on them and if there is report of regression due to these codepaths, we will reevaluate then. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+wXwBSyO87ZX5PVwdHm-=dBjZYECGmfnydUicUyrQqndgX2MQ@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220304184040.1304781-1-shakeelb@google.com Fixes: 1f828223b799 ("memcg: flush lruvec stats in the refault") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reported-by: Daniel Dao <dqminh@cloudflare.com> Tested-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Frank Hofmann <fhofmann@cloudflare.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/workingset.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/workingset.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 8a3828acc0bf..592569a8974c 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT_BASE + file, nr);
- mem_cgroup_flush_stats();
+ mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed();
/*
* Compare the distance to the existing workingset size. We
* don't activate pages that couldn't stay resident even if