From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f70.google.com (mail-lf0-f70.google.com [209.85.215.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0A4280757 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:27:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f70.google.com with SMTP id f7so1135712lfg.12 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:27:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id n7sor72585lje.50.2017.08.23.01.27.15 for (Google Transport Security); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:27:12 +0300 From: Vladimir Davydov Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: Count list_lru_one::nr_items lockless Message-ID: <20170823082712.tw6qtyllctn25puq@esperanza> References: <150340381428.3845.6099251634440472539.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <150340497499.3845.3045559119569209195.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20170822194725.ik3xwxu67wcthisb@esperanza> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Kirill Tkhai Cc: apolyakov@beget.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:00:56AM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > On 22.08.2017 22:47, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 03:29:35PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > >> During the reclaiming slab of a memcg, shrink_slab iterates > >> over all registered shrinkers in the system, and tries to count > >> and consume objects related to the cgroup. In case of memory > >> pressure, this behaves bad: I observe high system time and > >> time spent in list_lru_count_one() for many processes on RHEL7 > >> kernel (collected via $perf record --call-graph fp -j k -a): > >> > >> 0,50% nixstatsagent [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,26% nixstatsagent [kernel.vmlinux] [k] shrink_slab [k] shrink_slab > >> 0,23% nixstatsagent [kernel.vmlinux] [k] super_cache_count [k] super_cache_count > >> 0,15% nixstatsagent [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,15% nixstatsagent [kernel.vmlinux] [k] list_lru_count_one [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 > >> > >> 0,94% mysqld [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,57% mysqld [kernel.vmlinux] [k] shrink_slab [k] shrink_slab > >> 0,51% mysqld [kernel.vmlinux] [k] super_cache_count [k] super_cache_count > >> 0,32% mysqld [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,32% mysqld [kernel.vmlinux] [k] list_lru_count_one [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 > >> > >> 0,73% sshd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,35% sshd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] shrink_slab [k] shrink_slab > >> 0,32% sshd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] super_cache_count [k] super_cache_count > >> 0,21% sshd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 [k] _raw_spin_lock > >> 0,21% sshd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] list_lru_count_one [k] __list_lru_count_one.isra.2 > > > > It would be nice to see how this is improved by this patch. > > Can you try to record the traces on the vanilla kernel with > > and without this patch? > > Sadly, the talk is about a production node, and it's impossible to use vanila kernel there. I see :-( Then maybe you could try to come up with a contrived test? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org