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([2001:a61:245a:d801:2e74:88ad:ef9:5218]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w7sm2385959wre.9.2020.10.27.06.49.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Oct 2020 06:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man , Linux-MM , Mark Mossberg , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc.5: Document inaccurate RSS due to SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING To: Jann Horn References: <20201012114940.1317510-1-jannh@google.com> <0a090c14-6b70-4284-bb2d-4fbfd1146aaf@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:49:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 10/27/20 11:35 AM, Jann Horn wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:05 AM Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: >> On 10/12/20 4:52 PM, Jann Horn wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 1:49 PM Jann Horn wrote: >>>> Since 34e55232e59f7b19050267a05ff1226e5cd122a5 (introduced back in >>>> v2.6.34), Linux uses per-thread RSS counters to reduce cache contention on >>>> the per-mm counters. With a 4K page size, that means that you can end up >>>> with the counters off by up to 252KiB per thread. >>> >>> Actually, as Mark Mossberg pointed out to me off-thread, the counters >>> can actually be off by many times more... >> >> So, does your patch to proc.5 need tweaking, or can I just apply as is? > > The "(up to 63 pages per thread)" would have to go, the rest should be correct. > > But as Michal said, if someone volunteers to get rid of this > optimization, maybe we don't need the documentation after all? But > that would probably require actually doing some careful > heavily-multithreaded benchmarking on a big machine with a few dozen > cores, or something like that, so that we know whether this > optimization actually is unimportant enough that we can just get rid > of it... Okay -- in the meantime, I've applied your patch, with your suggested edit, to remove "(up to 63 pages per thread)". Thanks! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/