% SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 % % run as: octave-cli memcg_protection.m % % This script simulates reclaim protection behavior on a single level of memcg % hierarchy to illustrate how overcommitted protection spreads among siblings % (as it depends also on their current consumption). % % Simulation assumes siblings consumed the initial amount of memory (w/out % reclaim) and then the reclaim starts, all memory is reclaimable, i.e. treated % same. It simulates only non-low reclaim and assumes all memory.min = 0. % % Input configurations % -------------------- % E number parent effective protection % n vector nominal protection of siblings set at the given level (memory.low) % c vector current consumption -,,- (memory.current) % example from testcase (values in GB) E = 50 / 1024; n = [75 25 0 500 ] / 1024; c = [50 50 50 0] / 1024; % Reclaim parameters % ------------------ % Minimal reclaim amount (GB) cluster = 32*4 / 2**20; % Reclaim coefficient (think as 0.5^sc->priority) alpha = .1 % Simulation parameters % --------------------- epsilon = 1e-7; timeout = 1000; % Simulation loop % --------------- ch = []; eh = []; rh = []; for t = 1:timeout % low_usage u = min(c, n); siblings = sum(u); % effective_protection() protected = min(n, c); % start with nominal e = protected * min(1, E / siblings); % normalize overcommit % recursive protection unclaimed = max(0, E - siblings); parent_overuse = sum(c) - siblings; if (unclaimed > 0 && parent_overuse > 0) overuse = max(0, c - protected); e += unclaimed * (overuse / parent_overuse); endif % get_scan_count() r = alpha * c; % assume all memory is in a single LRU list % commit 1bc63fb1272b ("mm, memcg: make scan aggression always exclude protection") sz = max(e, c); r .*= (1 - (e+epsilon) ./ (sz+epsilon)); % uncomment to debug prints % e, c, r % nothing to reclaim, reached equilibrium if max(r) < epsilon break; endif % SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX roundup r = max(r, (r > epsilon) .* cluster); % XXX here I do parallel reclaim of all siblings % in reality reclaim is serialized and each sibling recalculates own residual c = max(c - r, 0); ch = [ch ; c]; eh = [eh ; e]; rh = [rh ; r]; endfor t c, e