mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg

yosrym93 · akpm00 · commit 8d59d2214c23 · 2023-12-20T14:48:11.000-08:00
A global counter for the magnitude of memcg stats update is maintained on the memcg side to avoid invoking rstat flushes when the pending updates are not significant. This avoids unnecessary flushes, which are not very cheap even if there isn't a lot of stats to flush. It also avoids unnecessary lock contention on the underlying global rstat lock. Make this threshold per-memcg. The scheme is followed where percpu (now also per-memcg) counters are incremented in the update path, and only propagated to per-memcg atomics when they exceed a certain threshold. This provides two benefits: (a) On large machines with a lot of memcgs, the global threshold can be reached relatively fast, so guarding the underlying lock becomes less effective. Making the threshold per-memcg avoids this. (b) Having a global threshold makes it hard to do subtree flushes, as we cannot reset the global counter except for a full flush. Per-memcg counters removes this as a blocker from doing subtree flushes, which helps avoid unnecessary work when the stats of a small subtree are needed. Nothing is free, of course. This comes at a cost: (a) A new per-cpu counter per memcg, consuming NR_CPUS * NR_MEMCGS * 4 bytes. The extra memory usage is insigificant. (b) More work on the update side, although in the common case it will only be percpu counter updates. The amount of work scales with the number of ancestors (i.e. tree depth). This is not a new concept, adding a cgroup to the rstat tree involves a parent loop, so is charging. Testing results below show no significant regressions. (c) The error margin in the stats for the system as a whole increases from NR_CPUS * MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH to NR_CPUS * MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH * NR_MEMCGS. This is probably fine because we have a similar per-memcg error in charges coming from percpu stocks, and we have a periodic flusher that makes sure we always flush all the stats every 2s anyway. This patch was tested to make sure no significant regressions are introduced on the update path as follows. The following benchmarks were ran in a cgroup that is 2 levels deep (/sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/): (1) Running 22 instances of netperf on a 44 cpu machine with hyperthreading disabled. All instances are run in a level 2 cgroup, as well as netserver: # netserver -6 # netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K Averaging 20 runs, the numbers are as follows: Base: 40198.0 mbps Patched: 38629.7 mbps (-3.9%) The regression is minimal, especially for 22 instances in the same cgroup sharing all ancestors (so updating the same atomics). (2) will-it-scale page_fault tests. These tests (specifically per_process_ops in page_fault3 test) detected a 25.9% regression before for a change in the stats update path [1]. These are the numbers from 10 runs (+ is good) on a machine with 256 cpus: LABEL | MEAN | MEDIAN | STDDEV | ------------------------------+-------------+-------------+------------- page_fault1_per_process_ops | | | | (A) base | 270249.164 | 265437.000 | 13451.836 | (B) patched | 261368.709 | 255725.000 | 13394.767 | | -3.29% | -3.66% | | page_fault1_per_thread_ops | | | | (A) base | 242111.345 | 239737.000 | 10026.031 | (B) patched | 237057.109 | 235305.000 | 9769.687 | | -2.09% | -1.85% | | page_fault1_scalability | | | (A) base | 0.034387 | 0.035168 | 0.0018283 | (B) patched | 0.033988 | 0.034573 | 0.0018056 | | -1.16% | -1.69% | | page_fault2_per_process_ops | | | (A) base | 203561.836 | 203301.000 | 2550.764 | (B) patched | 197195.945 | 197746.000 | 2264.263 | | -3.13% | -2.73% | | page_fault2_per_thread_ops | | | (A) base | 171046.473 | 170776.000 | 1509.679 | (B) patched | 166626.327 | 166406.000 | 768.753 | | -2.58% | -2.56% | | page_fault2_scalability | | | (A) base | 0.054026 | 0.053821 | 0.00062121 | (B) patched | 0.053329 | 0.05306 | 0.00048394 | | -1.29% | -1.41% | | page_fault3_per_process_ops | | | (A) base | 1295807.782 | 1297550.000 | 5907.585 | (B) patched | 1275579.873 | 1273359.000 | 8759.160 | | -1.56% | -1.86% | | page_fault3_per_thread_ops | | | (A) base | 391234.164 | 390860.000 | 1760.720 | (B) patched | 377231.273 | 376369.000 | 1874.971 | | -3.58% | -3.71% | | page_fault3_scalability | | | (A) base | 0.60369 | 0.60072 | 0.0083029 | (B) patched | 0.61733 | 0.61544 | 0.009855 | | +2.26% | +2.45% | | All regressions seem to be minimal, and within the normal variance for the benchmark. The fix for [1] assumes that 3% is noise -- and there were no further practical complaints), so hopefully this means that such variations in these microbenchmarks do not reflect on practical workloads. (3) I also ran stress-ng in a nested cgroup and did not observe any obvious regressions. [1]https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190520063534.GB19312@shao2-debian/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231129032154.3710765-4-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Ivan Babrou <ivan@cloudflare.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -631,6 +631,9 @@ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu {
 	/* Cgroup1: threshold notifications & softlimit tree updates */
 	unsigned long		nr_page_events;
 	unsigned long		targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS];
+
+	/* Stats updates since the last flush */
+	unsigned int		stats_updates;
 };
 
 struct memcg_vmstats {
@@ -645,6 +648,9 @@ struct memcg_vmstats {
 	/* Pending child counts during tree propagation */
 	long			state_pending[MEMCG_NR_STAT];
 	unsigned long		events_pending[NR_MEMCG_EVENTS];
+
+	/* Stats updates since the last flush */
+	atomic64_t		stats_updates;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -664,9 +670,7 @@ struct memcg_vmstats {
  */
 static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w);
 static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(stats_flush_dwork, flush_memcg_stats_dwork);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, stats_updates);
 static atomic_t stats_flush_ongoing = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-static atomic_t stats_flush_threshold = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 static u64 flush_last_time;
 
 #define FLUSH_TIME (2UL*HZ)
@@ -693,26 +697,37 @@ static void memcg_stats_unlock(void)
 	preempt_enable_nested();
 }
 
+
+static bool memcg_should_flush_stats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	return atomic64_read(&memcg->vmstats->stats_updates) >
+		MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH * num_online_cpus();
+}
+
 static inline void memcg_rstat_updated(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int val)
 {
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	unsigned int x;
 
 	if (!val)
 		return;
 
-	cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, smp_processor_id());
+	cgroup_rstat_updated(memcg->css.cgroup, cpu);
+
+	for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) {
+		x = __this_cpu_add_return(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates,
+					  abs(val));
+
+		if (x < MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)
+			continue;
 
-	x = __this_cpu_add_return(stats_updates, abs(val));
-	if (x > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH) {
 		/*
-		 * If stats_flush_threshold exceeds the threshold
-		 * (>num_online_cpus()), cgroup stats update will be triggered
-		 * in __mem_cgroup_flush_stats(). Increasing this var further
-		 * is redundant and simply adds overhead in atomic update.
+		 * If @memcg is already flush-able, increasing stats_updates is
+		 * redundant. Avoid the overhead of the atomic update.
 		 */
-		if (atomic_read(&stats_flush_threshold) <= num_online_cpus())
-			atomic_add(x / MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH, &stats_flush_threshold);
-		__this_cpu_write(stats_updates, 0);
+		if (!memcg_should_flush_stats(memcg))
+			atomic64_add(x, &memcg->vmstats->stats_updates);
+		__this_cpu_write(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates, 0);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -731,13 +746,12 @@ static void do_flush_stats(void)
 
 	cgroup_rstat_flush(root_mem_cgroup->css.cgroup);
 
-	atomic_set(&stats_flush_threshold, 0);
 	atomic_set(&stats_flush_ongoing, 0);
 }
 
 void mem_cgroup_flush_stats(void)
 {
-	if (atomic_read(&stats_flush_threshold) > num_online_cpus())
+	if (memcg_should_flush_stats(root_mem_cgroup))
 		do_flush_stats();
 }
 
@@ -751,8 +765,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_stats_ratelimited(void)
 static void flush_memcg_stats_dwork(struct work_struct *w)
 {
 	/*
-	 * Always flush here so that flushing in latency-sensitive paths is
-	 * as cheap as possible.
+	 * Deliberately ignore memcg_should_flush_stats() here so that flushing
+	 * in latency-sensitive paths is as cheap as possible.
 	 */
 	do_flush_stats();
 	queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &stats_flush_dwork, FLUSH_TIME);
@@ -5788,6 +5802,10 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	statc->stats_updates = 0;
+	/* We are in a per-cpu loop here, only do the atomic write once */
+	if (atomic64_read(&memcg->vmstats->stats_updates))
+		atomic64_set(&memcg->vmstats->stats_updates, 0);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
