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[94.245.46.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d21sm1711255ljc.49.2020.04.01.11.37.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:37:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Uladzislau Rezki X-Google-Original-From: Uladzislau Rezki Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 20:37:45 +0200 To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Uladzislau Rezki , Joel Fernandes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, peterz@infradead.org, neilb@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz, mgorman@suse.de, Andrew Morton , Josh Triplett , Lai Jiangshan , Mathieu Desnoyers , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] rcu/tree: Use GFP_MEMALLOC for alloc memory to free memory pattern Message-ID: <20200401183745.GA5960@pc636> References: <20200331131628.153118-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> <20200331140433.GA26498@pc636> <20200331150911.GC236678@google.com> <20200331160119.GA27614@pc636> <20200331183000.GD236678@google.com> <20200401122550.GA32593@pc636> <20200401134745.GV19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <20200401181601.GA4042@pc636> <20200401182615.GE19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200401182615.GE19865@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:26:15AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:16:01PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Right. Per discussion with Paul, we discussed that it is better if we > > > > > pre-allocate N number of array blocks per-CPU and use it for the cache. > > > > > Default for N being 1 and tunable with a boot parameter. I agree with this. > > > > > > > > > As discussed before, we can make use of memory pool API for such > > > > purpose. But i am not sure if it should be one pool per CPU or > > > > one pool per NR_CPUS, that would contain NR_CPUS * N pre-allocated > > > > blocks. > > > > > > There are advantages and disadvantages either way. The advantage of the > > > per-CPU pool is that you don't have to worry about something like lock > > > contention causing even more pain during an OOM event. One potential > > > problem wtih the per-CPU pool can happen when callbacks are offloaded, > > > in which case the CPUs needing the memory might never be getting it, > > > because in the offloaded case (RCU_NOCB_CPU=y) the CPU posting callbacks > > > might never be invoking them. > > > > > > But from what I know now, systems built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y > > > either don't have heavy callback loads (HPC systems) or are carefully > > > configured (real-time systems). Plus large systems would probably end > > > up needing something pretty close to a slab allocator to keep from dying > > > from lock contention, and it is hard to justify that level of complexity > > > at this point. > > > > > > Or is there some way to mark a specific slab allocator instance as being > > > able to keep some amount of memory no matter what the OOM conditions are? > > > If not, the current per-CPU pre-allocated cache is a better choice in the > > > near term. > > > > > As for mempool API: > > > > mempool_alloc() just tries to make regular allocation taking into > > account passed gfp_t bitmask. If it fails due to memory pressure, > > it uses reserved preallocated pool that consists of number of > > desirable elements(preallocated when a pool is created). > > > > mempoll_free() returns an element to to pool, if it detects that > > current reserved elements are lower then minimum allowed elements, > > it will add an element to reserved pool, i.e. refill it. Otherwise > > just call kfree() or whatever we define as "element-freeing function." > > Unless I am missing something, mempool_alloc() acquires a per-mempool > lock on each invocation under OOM conditions. For our purposes, this > is essentially a global lock. This will not be at all acceptable on a > large system. > It uses pool->lock to access to reserved objects, so if we have one memory pool per one CPU then it would be serialized. -- Vlad Rezki