From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751231AbeDDORd (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 10:17:33 -0400 Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.110.215]:50000 "EHLO gum.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbeDDORc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 10:17:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 10:18:50 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner To: Tejun Heo Cc: mhocko@kernel.org, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, guro@fb.com, riel@surriel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: memcontrol: Use cgroup_rstat for event accounting Message-ID: <20180404141850.GC28966@cmpxchg.org> References: <20180324160901.512135-1-tj@kernel.org> <20180324160901.512135-2-tj@kernel.org> <20180404140855.GA28966@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180404140855.GA28966@cmpxchg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:08:55AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 09:08:59AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu { > > unsigned long events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS]; > > unsigned long nr_page_events; > > unsigned long targets[MEM_CGROUP_NTARGETS]; > > + > > + /* for cgroup rstat delta calculation */ > > + unsigned long last_events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS]; > > }; > > > > struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter { > > @@ -233,7 +236,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup { > > > > struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu __percpu *stat_cpu; > > atomic_long_t stat[MEMCG_NR_STAT]; > > - atomic_long_t events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS]; > > + > > + /* events is managed by cgroup rstat */ > > + unsigned long long events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS]; /* local */ > > + unsigned long long tree_events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS]; /* subtree */ > > + unsigned long long pending_events[MEMCG_NR_EVENTS];/* propagation */ > > The lazy updates are neat, but I'm a little concerned at the memory > footprint. On a 64-cpu machine for example, this adds close to 9000 > words to struct mem_cgroup. And we really only need the accuracy for > the 4 cgroup items in memory.events, not all VM events and stats. > > Why not restrict the patch to those? It would also get rid of the > weird sharing between VM and cgroup enums. In fact, I wonder if we need per-cpuness for MEMCG_LOW, MEMCG_HIGH etc. in the first place. They describe super high-level reclaim and OOM events, so they're not nearly as hot as other VM events and stats. We could probably just have a per-memcg array of atomics.