From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>, Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>, "Wangkai (Kevin,C)" <wangkai86@huawei.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:09:01 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20180716090901.GG17280@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20180713003614.GW2234@dastard> On Fri 13-07-18 10:36:14, Dave Chinner wrote: [...] > By limiting the number of negative dentries in this case, internal > slab fragmentation is reduced such that reclaim cost never gets out > of control. While it appears to "fix" the symptoms, it doesn't > address the underlying problem. It is a partial solution at best but > at worst it's another opaque knob that nobody knows how or when to > tune. Would it help to put all the negative dentries into its own slab cache? > Very few microbenchmarks expose this internal slab fragmentation > problem because they either don't run long enough, don't create > memory pressure, or don't have access patterns that mix long and > short term slab objects together in a way that causes slab > fragmentation. Run some cold cache directory traversals (git > status?) at the same time you are creating negative dentries so you > create pinned partial pages in the slab cache and see how the > behaviour changes.... Agreed! Slab fragmentation is a real problem we are seeing for quite some time. We should try to address it rather than paper over it with weird knobs. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>, Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>, "Wangkai (Kevin,C)" <wangkai86@huawei.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:09:01 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20180716090901.GG17280@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20180713003614.GW2234@dastard> On Fri 13-07-18 10:36:14, Dave Chinner wrote: [...] > By limiting the number of negative dentries in this case, internal > slab fragmentation is reduced such that reclaim cost never gets out > of control. While it appears to "fix" the symptoms, it doesn't > address the underlying problem. It is a partial solution at best but > at worst it's another opaque knob that nobody knows how or when to > tune. Would it help to put all the negative dentries into its own slab cache? > Very few microbenchmarks expose this internal slab fragmentation > problem because they either don't run long enough, don't create > memory pressure, or don't have access patterns that mix long and > short term slab objects together in a way that causes slab > fragmentation. Run some cold cache directory traversals (git > status?) at the same time you are creating negative dentries so you > create pinned partial pages in the slab cache and see how the > behaviour changes.... Agreed! Slab fragmentation is a real problem we are seeing for quite some time. We should try to address it rather than paper over it with weird knobs. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-16 9:09 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 114+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-07-06 19:32 [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] fs/dcache: Track & report number " Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] fs/dcache: Add sysctl parameter neg-dentry-pc as a soft limit on " Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] fs/dcache: Enable automatic pruning of " Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] fs/dcache: Spread negative dentry pruning across multiple CPUs Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] fs/dcache: Add negative dentries to LRU head initially Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] fs/dcache: Allow optional enforcement of negative dentry limit Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] fs/dcache: Allow deconfiguration of negative dentry code to reduce kernel size Waiman Long 2018-07-06 19:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-06 21:54 ` Eric Biggers 2018-07-06 21:54 ` Eric Biggers 2018-07-06 22:28 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] fs/dcache: Track & limit # of negative dentries Al Viro 2018-07-06 22:28 ` Al Viro 2018-07-07 3:02 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-07 3:02 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-09 8:19 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-09 8:19 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-09 16:01 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-09 16:01 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-10 14:27 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-10 14:27 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-10 16:09 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-10 16:09 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-11 10:21 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-11 10:21 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-11 15:13 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-11 15:13 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-11 17:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 17:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 17:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 19:07 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-11 19:07 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-11 19:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 19:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 19:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-11 19:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 15:54 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 15:54 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 16:04 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 16:04 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 16:04 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 16:04 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 16:26 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 16:26 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 17:33 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:33 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:33 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:33 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 15:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-13 15:32 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 16:49 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-12 16:49 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 17:21 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds 2018-07-12 19:57 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 19:57 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 19:57 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-12 19:57 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 0:36 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-13 0:36 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-13 15:46 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 15:46 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 15:46 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 15:46 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-13 23:17 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-13 23:17 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-13 23:17 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-13 23:17 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-16 9:10 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-16 9:10 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-16 14:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-16 14:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-16 14:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-16 14:42 ` James Bottomley 2018-07-16 9:09 ` Michal Hocko [this message] 2018-07-16 9:09 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-16 9:12 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-16 9:12 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-16 12:41 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-16 12:41 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-16 23:40 ` Andrew Morton 2018-07-16 23:40 ` Andrew Morton 2018-07-17 1:30 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-17 1:30 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-07-17 8:33 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-17 8:33 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-19 0:33 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-19 0:33 ` Dave Chinner 2018-07-19 8:45 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-19 8:45 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-19 9:13 ` Jan Kara 2018-07-19 9:13 ` Jan Kara 2018-07-18 18:39 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-18 18:39 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-18 16:17 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-18 16:17 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-19 8:48 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-19 8:48 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-12 8:48 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-12 8:48 ` Michal Hocko 2018-07-12 16:12 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 16:12 ` Waiman Long 2018-07-12 23:16 ` Andrew Morton 2018-07-12 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
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