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* [PATCH] mm: introduce sysctl file to flush per-cpu vmstat statistics
@ 2020-11-17 16:28 Marcelo Tosatti
  2020-11-17 18:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
  2020-11-24  5:02 ` [mm] e655d17ffa: BUG:using_smp_processor_id()in_preemptible kernel test robot
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 42+ messages in thread
From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2020-11-17 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Lameter; +Cc: linux-mm, Andrew Morton


For isolated applications that busy loop (packet processing with DPDK, 
for example), workqueue functions either stall (if the -rt app priority 
is higher than kworker thread priority) or interrupt the -rt app 
(if the -rt app priority is lower than kworker thread priority.

For those cases, it is ideal to avoid the workqueue function in the
first place.

For the vmstat_update function, which syncs per-cpu statistics to 
global stats, one can modify the -rt app to explicitly flush 
before the realtime loop starts.

Suggested by Christoph Lameter at https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/12/364.

Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index f455fa00c00f..ea4ad1f9f82f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
 - percpu_pagelist_fraction
 - stat_interval
 - stat_refresh
+- quiet_vmstat
 - numa_stat
 - swappiness
 - unprivileged_userfaultfd
@@ -827,6 +828,21 @@ as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg.
 (At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative,
 with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.)
 
+quiet_vmstat
+============
+
+Any read or write flushes the current cpu's per-cpu vm statistics into
+their global totals, and flushes pending updates.
+
+This is useful for isolated realtime applications that, in the setup
+phase, use services that modify per-cpu vm statistics (mlock, for example).
+
+Performing an explicit flush before starting the time sensitive loop removes
+the need for it to happen at workqueue time (which would interrupt the
+application).
+
+Note that without pinning the task to a particular CPU, which CPU has its
+per-cpu vm statistics flushed is not well defined.
 
 numa_stat
 =========
diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 322dcbfcc933..da98cc28b3ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void);
 struct ctl_table;
 int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 		loff_t *ppos);
+int proc_quiet_vmstat(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
+		      size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 
 void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pageset *);
 
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index afad085960b8..71b28311b950 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -3016,6 +3016,13 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0600,
 		.proc_handler	= vmstat_refresh,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "quiet_vmstat",
+		.data		= NULL,
+		.maxlen		= 0,
+		.mode		= 0600,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_quiet_vmstat,
+	},
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 	{
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 698bc0bc18d1..cec8e5c32f97 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1936,6 +1936,24 @@ void quiet_vmstat(void)
 	refresh_cpu_vm_stats(false);
 }
 
+int proc_quiet_vmstat(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		   void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	if (write)
+		*ppos += *lenp;
+	else
+		*lenp = 0;
+
+	preempt_disable();
+	if (need_update(smp_processor_id()) == true)
+		refresh_cpu_vm_stats(false);
+	preempt_enable();
+
+	flush_delayed_work(this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work));
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Shepherd worker thread that checks the
  * differentials of processors that have their worker



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2020-11-17 16:28 [PATCH] mm: introduce sysctl file to flush per-cpu vmstat statistics Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-17 18:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-17 19:06   ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-17 19:09     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-20 18:04       ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-17 20:23     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-20 18:02       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-20 18:20       ` Christopher Lameter
2020-11-23 18:02         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-24 17:12         ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-24 19:52           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-27 15:48         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-28  3:49           ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2020-11-30 18:18             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-30 18:29               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-03 22:47                 ` Alex Belits
2020-12-03 22:21               ` Alex Belits
2020-11-30  9:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2020-12-02 12:43             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-02 15:57             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-02 17:43               ` Christoph Lameter
2020-12-03  3:17                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07  8:08                   ` Christoph Lameter
2020-12-07 16:09                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 19:01                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-02 18:38               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-04  0:20                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-12-04 13:31                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-12-04  1:43               ` [EXT] " Alex Belits
2021-01-13 12:15                 ` [RFC] tentative prctl task isolation interface Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-14  9:22                   ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-14 19:34                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-15 13:24                       ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-15 18:35                         ` Alex Belits
2021-01-21 15:51                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-21 16:20                             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-22 13:05                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-02-01 10:48                             ` Christoph Lameter
2021-02-01 12:47                               ` Alex Belits
2021-02-01 18:20                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-01-18 15:18                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-11-24  5:02 ` [mm] e655d17ffa: BUG:using_smp_processor_id()in_preemptible kernel test robot

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