* Re: + mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch added to -mm tree [not found] <20190923220902.-_eJc%akpm@linux-foundation.org> @ 2019-09-24 13:56 ` Michal Hocko 2019-09-24 16:26 ` Yang Shi 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Michal Hocko @ 2019-09-24 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel Cc: mm-commits, vdavydov.dev, shakeelb, rientjes, ktkhai, kirill.shutemov, hughd, hannes, cai, yang.shi Do we really need this if deferred list is going to be shrunk more pro-actively as discussed already - I am sorry I do not have a link handy but in short the deferred list would be drained from a kworker context more pro-actively rather than wait for the memory pressure to happen. On Mon 23-09-19 15:09:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------ > From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> > Subject: mm: thp: extract split_queue_* into a struct > > Patch series "Make deferred split shrinker memcg aware", v6. > > Currently THP deferred split shrinker is not memcg aware, this may cause > premature OOM with some configuration. For example the below test would > run into premature OOM easily: > > $ cgcreate -g memory:thp > $ echo 4G > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/thp/memory/limit_in_bytes > $ cgexec -g memory:thp transhuge-stress 4000 > > transhuge-stress comes from kernel selftest. > > It is easy to hit OOM, but there are still a lot THP on the deferred split > queue, memcg direct reclaim can't touch them since the deferred split > shrinker is not memcg aware. > > Convert deferred split shrinker memcg aware by introducing per memcg > deferred split queue. The THP should be on either per node or per memcg > deferred split queue if it belongs to a memcg. When the page is > immigrated to the other memcg, it will be immigrated to the target memcg's > deferred split queue too. > > Reuse the second tail page's deferred_list for per memcg list since the > same THP can't be on multiple deferred split queues. > > Make deferred split shrinker not depend on memcg kmem since it is not > slab. It doesn't make sense to not shrink THP even though memcg kmem is > disabled. > > With the above change the test demonstrated above doesn't trigger OOM even > though with cgroup.memory=nokmem. > > > This patch (of 4): > > Put split_queue, split_queue_lock and split_queue_len into a struct in > order to reduce code duplication when we convert deferred_split to memcg > aware in the later patches. > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565144277-36240-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> > Suggested-by: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> > Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> > Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > --- > > include/linux/mmzone.h | 12 +++++++--- > mm/huge_memory.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++-- > 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) > > --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct > +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h > @@ -679,6 +679,14 @@ struct zonelist { > extern struct page *mem_map; > #endif > > +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE > +struct deferred_split { > + spinlock_t split_queue_lock; > + struct list_head split_queue; > + unsigned long split_queue_len; > +}; > +#endif > + > /* > * On NUMA machines, each NUMA node would have a pg_data_t to describe > * it's memory layout. On UMA machines there is a single pglist_data which > @@ -758,9 +766,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { > #endif /* CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT */ > > #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE > - spinlock_t split_queue_lock; > - struct list_head split_queue; > - unsigned long split_queue_len; > + struct deferred_split deferred_split_queue; > #endif > > /* Fields commonly accessed by the page reclaim scanner */ > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct > +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -2691,6 +2691,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page > { > struct page *head = compound_head(page); > struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(head)); > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; > struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL; > struct address_space *mapping = NULL; > int count, mapcount, extra_pins, ret; > @@ -2777,17 +2778,17 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page > } > > /* Prevent deferred_split_scan() touching ->_refcount */ > - spin_lock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); > + spin_lock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); > count = page_count(head); > mapcount = total_mapcount(head); > if (!mapcount && page_ref_freeze(head, 1 + extra_pins)) { > if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(head))) { > - pgdata->split_queue_len--; > + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; > list_del(page_deferred_list(head)); > } > if (mapping) > __dec_node_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM_THPS); > - spin_unlock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); > + spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); > __split_huge_page(page, list, end, flags); > if (PageSwapCache(head)) { > swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) }; > @@ -2804,7 +2805,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page > dump_page(page, "total_mapcount(head) > 0"); > BUG(); > } > - spin_unlock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); > + spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); > fail: if (mapping) > xa_unlock(&mapping->i_pages); > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->lru_lock, flags); > @@ -2827,52 +2828,56 @@ out: > void free_transhuge_page(struct page *page) > { > struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page)); > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; > unsigned long flags; > > - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { > - pgdata->split_queue_len--; > + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; > list_del(page_deferred_list(page)); > } > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > free_compound_page(page); > } > > void deferred_split_huge_page(struct page *page) > { > struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page)); > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; > unsigned long flags; > > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(page), page); > > - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > if (list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { > count_vm_event(THP_DEFERRED_SPLIT_PAGE); > - list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), &pgdata->split_queue); > - pgdata->split_queue_len++; > + list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), &ds_queue->split_queue); > + ds_queue->split_queue_len++; > } > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > } > > static unsigned long deferred_split_count(struct shrinker *shrink, > struct shrink_control *sc) > { > struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(sc->nid); > - return READ_ONCE(pgdata->split_queue_len); > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; > + return READ_ONCE(ds_queue->split_queue_len); > } > > static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, > struct shrink_control *sc) > { > struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(sc->nid); > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; > unsigned long flags; > LIST_HEAD(list), *pos, *next; > struct page *page; > int split = 0; > > - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > /* Take pin on all head pages to avoid freeing them under us */ > - list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &pgdata->split_queue) { > + list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &ds_queue->split_queue) { > page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping); > page = compound_head(page); > if (get_page_unless_zero(page)) { > @@ -2880,12 +2885,12 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan > } else { > /* We lost race with put_compound_page() */ > list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page)); > - pgdata->split_queue_len--; > + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; > } > if (!--sc->nr_to_scan) > break; > } > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > > list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) { > page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping); > @@ -2899,15 +2904,15 @@ next: > put_page(page); > } > > - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > - list_splice_tail(&list, &pgdata->split_queue); > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > + list_splice_tail(&list, &ds_queue->split_queue); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); > > /* > * Stop shrinker if we didn't split any page, but the queue is empty. > * This can happen if pages were freed under us. > */ > - if (!split && list_empty(&pgdata->split_queue)) > + if (!split && list_empty(&ds_queue->split_queue)) > return SHRINK_STOP; > return split; > } > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct > +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -6646,9 +6646,11 @@ static unsigned long __init calc_memmap_ > #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE > static void pgdat_init_split_queue(struct pglist_data *pgdat) > { > - spin_lock_init(&pgdat->split_queue_lock); > - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pgdat->split_queue); > - pgdat->split_queue_len = 0; > + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdat->deferred_split_queue; > + > + spin_lock_init(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ds_queue->split_queue); > + ds_queue->split_queue_len = 0; > } > #else > static void pgdat_init_split_queue(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {} > _ > > Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com are > > mmthp-add-read-only-thp-support-for-non-shmem-fs.patch > mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch > mm-move-mem_cgroup_uncharge-out-of-__page_cache_release.patch > mm-shrinker-make-shrinker-not-depend-on-memcg-kmem.patch > mm-shrinker-make-shrinker-not-depend-on-memcg-kmem-v6.patch > mm-thp-make-deferred-split-shrinker-memcg-aware.patch > mm-thp-make-deferred-split-shrinker-memcg-aware-v6.patch -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: + mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch added to -mm tree 2019-09-24 13:56 ` + mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch added to -mm tree Michal Hocko @ 2019-09-24 16:26 ` Yang Shi 2019-09-25 6:45 ` Michal Hocko 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Yang Shi @ 2019-09-24 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Michal Hocko, linux-kernel Cc: mm-commits, vdavydov.dev, shakeelb, rientjes, ktkhai, kirill.shutemov, hughd, hannes, cai On 9/24/19 6:56 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > Do we really need this if deferred list is going to be shrunk more > pro-actively as discussed already - I am sorry I do not have a link handy > but in short the deferred list would be drained from a kworker context > more pro-actively rather than wait for the memory pressure to happen. From our experience I really didn't see the current waiting for memory pressure approach is a problem, it does work well and is still a good compromise. And, I'm supposed we all agree the side effect incurred by the more proactive kworker approach is definitely a concern (i.e. may waste cpu cycles, break isolation, etc) according to our discussion. And we do have other much simpler ways to shrink THPs more proactively, for example, waking up kswapd more aggressively via tuning watermark_scale_factor, and/or do shrinking harder, etc. Even though we have to drain THPs more proactively by whatever means in the future, I'd prefer it is memcg aware as well. BTW, we already had these patches running in our production environment for a while, they did resolve the problem we met very well. > > On Mon 23-09-19 15:09:02, Andrew Morton wrote: >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> >> Subject: mm: thp: extract split_queue_* into a struct >> >> Patch series "Make deferred split shrinker memcg aware", v6. >> >> Currently THP deferred split shrinker is not memcg aware, this may cause >> premature OOM with some configuration. For example the below test would >> run into premature OOM easily: >> >> $ cgcreate -g memory:thp >> $ echo 4G > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/thp/memory/limit_in_bytes >> $ cgexec -g memory:thp transhuge-stress 4000 >> >> transhuge-stress comes from kernel selftest. >> >> It is easy to hit OOM, but there are still a lot THP on the deferred split >> queue, memcg direct reclaim can't touch them since the deferred split >> shrinker is not memcg aware. >> >> Convert deferred split shrinker memcg aware by introducing per memcg >> deferred split queue. The THP should be on either per node or per memcg >> deferred split queue if it belongs to a memcg. When the page is >> immigrated to the other memcg, it will be immigrated to the target memcg's >> deferred split queue too. >> >> Reuse the second tail page's deferred_list for per memcg list since the >> same THP can't be on multiple deferred split queues. >> >> Make deferred split shrinker not depend on memcg kmem since it is not >> slab. It doesn't make sense to not shrink THP even though memcg kmem is >> disabled. >> >> With the above change the test demonstrated above doesn't trigger OOM even >> though with cgroup.memory=nokmem. >> >> >> This patch (of 4): >> >> Put split_queue, split_queue_lock and split_queue_len into a struct in >> order to reduce code duplication when we convert deferred_split to memcg >> aware in the later patches. >> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565144277-36240-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com >> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> >> Suggested-by: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> >> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> >> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> >> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> >> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> >> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> >> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> >> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> >> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> >> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> >> --- >> >> include/linux/mmzone.h | 12 +++++++--- >> mm/huge_memory.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ >> mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++-- >> 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) >> >> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct >> +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h >> @@ -679,6 +679,14 @@ struct zonelist { >> extern struct page *mem_map; >> #endif >> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE >> +struct deferred_split { >> + spinlock_t split_queue_lock; >> + struct list_head split_queue; >> + unsigned long split_queue_len; >> +}; >> +#endif >> + >> /* >> * On NUMA machines, each NUMA node would have a pg_data_t to describe >> * it's memory layout. On UMA machines there is a single pglist_data which >> @@ -758,9 +766,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { >> #endif /* CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT */ >> >> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE >> - spinlock_t split_queue_lock; >> - struct list_head split_queue; >> - unsigned long split_queue_len; >> + struct deferred_split deferred_split_queue; >> #endif >> >> /* Fields commonly accessed by the page reclaim scanner */ >> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct >> +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c >> @@ -2691,6 +2691,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page >> { >> struct page *head = compound_head(page); >> struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(head)); >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; >> struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL; >> struct address_space *mapping = NULL; >> int count, mapcount, extra_pins, ret; >> @@ -2777,17 +2778,17 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page >> } >> >> /* Prevent deferred_split_scan() touching ->_refcount */ >> - spin_lock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); >> + spin_lock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); >> count = page_count(head); >> mapcount = total_mapcount(head); >> if (!mapcount && page_ref_freeze(head, 1 + extra_pins)) { >> if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(head))) { >> - pgdata->split_queue_len--; >> + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; >> list_del(page_deferred_list(head)); >> } >> if (mapping) >> __dec_node_page_state(page, NR_SHMEM_THPS); >> - spin_unlock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); >> + spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); >> __split_huge_page(page, list, end, flags); >> if (PageSwapCache(head)) { >> swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) }; >> @@ -2804,7 +2805,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page >> dump_page(page, "total_mapcount(head) > 0"); >> BUG(); >> } >> - spin_unlock(&pgdata->split_queue_lock); >> + spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); >> fail: if (mapping) >> xa_unlock(&mapping->i_pages); >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->lru_lock, flags); >> @@ -2827,52 +2828,56 @@ out: >> void free_transhuge_page(struct page *page) >> { >> struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page)); >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; >> unsigned long flags; >> >> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { >> - pgdata->split_queue_len--; >> + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; >> list_del(page_deferred_list(page)); >> } >> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> free_compound_page(page); >> } >> >> void deferred_split_huge_page(struct page *page) >> { >> struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page)); >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; >> unsigned long flags; >> >> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(page), page); >> >> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> if (list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { >> count_vm_event(THP_DEFERRED_SPLIT_PAGE); >> - list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), &pgdata->split_queue); >> - pgdata->split_queue_len++; >> + list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), &ds_queue->split_queue); >> + ds_queue->split_queue_len++; >> } >> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> } >> >> static unsigned long deferred_split_count(struct shrinker *shrink, >> struct shrink_control *sc) >> { >> struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(sc->nid); >> - return READ_ONCE(pgdata->split_queue_len); >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; >> + return READ_ONCE(ds_queue->split_queue_len); >> } >> >> static unsigned long deferred_split_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, >> struct shrink_control *sc) >> { >> struct pglist_data *pgdata = NODE_DATA(sc->nid); >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdata->deferred_split_queue; >> unsigned long flags; >> LIST_HEAD(list), *pos, *next; >> struct page *page; >> int split = 0; >> >> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> /* Take pin on all head pages to avoid freeing them under us */ >> - list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &pgdata->split_queue) { >> + list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &ds_queue->split_queue) { >> page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping); >> page = compound_head(page); >> if (get_page_unless_zero(page)) { >> @@ -2880,12 +2885,12 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_scan >> } else { >> /* We lost race with put_compound_page() */ >> list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page)); >> - pgdata->split_queue_len--; >> + ds_queue->split_queue_len--; >> } >> if (!--sc->nr_to_scan) >> break; >> } >> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> >> list_for_each_safe(pos, next, &list) { >> page = list_entry((void *)pos, struct page, mapping); >> @@ -2899,15 +2904,15 @@ next: >> put_page(page); >> } >> >> - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> - list_splice_tail(&list, &pgdata->split_queue); >> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdata->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> + list_splice_tail(&list, &ds_queue->split_queue); >> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags); >> >> /* >> * Stop shrinker if we didn't split any page, but the queue is empty. >> * This can happen if pages were freed under us. >> */ >> - if (!split && list_empty(&pgdata->split_queue)) >> + if (!split && list_empty(&ds_queue->split_queue)) >> return SHRINK_STOP; >> return split; >> } >> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct >> +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c >> @@ -6646,9 +6646,11 @@ static unsigned long __init calc_memmap_ >> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE >> static void pgdat_init_split_queue(struct pglist_data *pgdat) >> { >> - spin_lock_init(&pgdat->split_queue_lock); >> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pgdat->split_queue); >> - pgdat->split_queue_len = 0; >> + struct deferred_split *ds_queue = &pgdat->deferred_split_queue; >> + >> + spin_lock_init(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); >> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ds_queue->split_queue); >> + ds_queue->split_queue_len = 0; >> } >> #else >> static void pgdat_init_split_queue(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {} >> _ >> >> Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com are >> >> mmthp-add-read-only-thp-support-for-non-shmem-fs.patch >> mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch >> mm-move-mem_cgroup_uncharge-out-of-__page_cache_release.patch >> mm-shrinker-make-shrinker-not-depend-on-memcg-kmem.patch >> mm-shrinker-make-shrinker-not-depend-on-memcg-kmem-v6.patch >> mm-thp-make-deferred-split-shrinker-memcg-aware.patch >> mm-thp-make-deferred-split-shrinker-memcg-aware-v6.patch ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: + mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch added to -mm tree 2019-09-24 16:26 ` Yang Shi @ 2019-09-25 6:45 ` Michal Hocko 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Michal Hocko @ 2019-09-25 6:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Yang Shi Cc: linux-kernel, mm-commits, vdavydov.dev, shakeelb, rientjes, ktkhai, kirill.shutemov, hughd, hannes, cai On Tue 24-09-19 09:26:37, Yang Shi wrote: > > > On 9/24/19 6:56 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Do we really need this if deferred list is going to be shrunk more > > pro-actively as discussed already - I am sorry I do not have a link handy > > but in short the deferred list would be drained from a kworker context > > more pro-actively rather than wait for the memory pressure to happen. > > From our experience I really didn't see the current waiting for memory > pressure approach is a problem, it does work well and is still a good > compromise. And, I'm supposed we all agree the side effect incurred by the > more proactive kworker approach is definitely a concern (i.e. may waste cpu > cycles, break isolation, etc) according to our discussion. > > And we do have other much simpler ways to shrink THPs more proactively, for > example, waking up kswapd more aggressively via tuning > watermark_scale_factor, and/or do shrinking harder, etc. No, we do not want to make THPs even more tricky to configure then they are now. There are many howtos out there to recommend disabling THPs because they might have performance or other subtle side effects. I do not want to feed that cargo cult even more. Really users shouldn't even notice that THPs are split because that is so much of an internal implementation detail. Now the existing implementation really hides a lot of memory and it requires some expertise to understand where that memory went. And the later part is something users tend to care about from experience. So I really do think that waiting for the memory pressure is simply a wrong thing to do. It causes unnecessary reclaim because some of the pages are going to be dropped before the shrinker can act. > Even though we have to drain THPs more proactively by whatever means in the > future, I'd prefer it is memcg aware as well. OK, let's keep it then until we have another means for pro-active draining. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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2019-09-24 13:56 ` + mm-thp-extract-split_queue_-into-a-struct.patch added to -mm tree Michal Hocko
2019-09-24 16:26 ` Yang Shi
2019-09-25 6:45 ` Michal Hocko
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