From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 13:36:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab1e0eae-9baf-eccf-82cb-9e47dbbab13b@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a63f9190-e91b-97d7-f579-8ccf0fce46c7@suse.cz>
On 5/20/20 1:31 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 4/22/20 10:46 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>> To implement per-object slab memory accounting, we need to
>> convert slab vmstat counters to bytes. Actually, out of
>> 4 levels of counters: global, per-node, per-memcg and per-lruvec
>> only two last levels will require byte-sized counters.
>> It's because global and per-node counters will be counting the
>> number of slab pages, and per-memcg and per-lruvec will be
>> counting the amount of memory taken by charged slab objects.
>>
>> Converting all vmstat counters to bytes or even all slab
>> counters to bytes would introduce an additional overhead.
>> So instead let's store global and per-node counters
>> in pages, and memcg and lruvec counters in bytes.
>>
>> To make the API clean all access helpers (both on the read
>> and write sides) are dealing with bytes.
>>
>> To avoid back-and-forth conversions a new flavor of helpers
>> is introduced, which always returns values in pages:
>> node_page_state_pages() and global_node_page_state_pages().
>>
>> Actually new helpers are just reading raw values. Old helpers are
>> simple wrappers, which perform a conversion if the vmstat items are
>> in bytes. Because at the moment no one actually need bytes,
>> there are WARN_ON_ONCE() macroses inside to warn about inappropriate
>> use cases.
>>
>> Thanks to Johannes Weiner for the idea of having the byte-sized API
>> on top of the page-sized internal storage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
>
> Reviewed-By: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>
> But it's somewhat complicated, so it would be great to document it in comments
> of e.g. include/linux/vmstat.h that what the API returns as unsigned long, can
> be either bytes or pages depending on vmstat_item_in_bytes().
Also forgot to add that if those WARN_ON_ONCEs are going to stay, they should
rather become VM_WARN_ON_ONCEs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 20:46 [PATCH v3 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 10:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:34 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 11:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 11:36 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 12:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 19:26 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-21 9:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-21 21:14 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 23:52 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-23 0:05 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-25 2:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-25 2:46 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-27 16:21 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-27 16:46 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-28 17:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-28 17:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-04-30 16:29 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-30 17:15 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-02 23:54 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-04 18:29 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-08 21:35 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-13 0:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-15 21:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-15 22:12 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-20 9:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 20:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-15 20:02 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-23 21:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-25 2:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-20 13:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 21:00 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-21 11:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-21 21:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 21:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-07 22:26 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-12 22:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-15 22:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages Roman Gushchin
2020-04-23 20:20 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-22 18:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-23 1:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 17:50 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 14:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 15:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 17:53 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-27 11:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 16:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 18:04 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 21:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 17:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memcg_kmem_get_cache() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:52 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 18:50 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 11:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 14:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-27 8:35 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 15:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 15:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-27 17:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-27 20:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool Roman Gushchin
2020-05-05 15:59 ` Tejun Heo
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