From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu 13/14] workqueue: Make queue_rcu_work() use call_rcu_flush()
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:15:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEXW_YTmtm2yb0MVvNV9C1jPEs=5K9PaEFsWEG7pAmPAyWJ_qQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1/LwKz60iU2izOZ@pc636>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:21 AM Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 09:23:47PM +0000, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 09:48:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 06:25:30PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > You guys might need to agree on the definition of "good" here. Or maybe
> > > > > understand the differences in your respective platforms' definitions of
> > > > > "good". ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > Indeed. Bad is when once per-millisecond infinitely :) At least in such use
> > > > workload a can detect a power delta and power gain. Anyway, below is a new
> > > > trace where i do not use "flush" variant for the kvfree_rcu():
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 1. Home screen swipe:
[...]
> > > > 2. App launches:
[...]
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > it is much more better. But. As i wrote earlier there is a patch that i have submitted
> > > > some time ago improving kvfree_rcu() batching:
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > > commit 51824b780b719c53113dc39e027fbf670dc66028
> > > > Author: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Thu Jun 30 18:33:35 2022 +0200
> > > >
> > > > rcu/kvfree: Update KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES interval
> > > >
> > > > Currently the monitor work is scheduled with a fixed interval of HZ/20,
> > > > which is roughly 50 milliseconds. The drawback of this approach is
> > > > low utilization of the 512 page slots in scenarios with infrequence
> > > > kvfree_rcu() calls. For example on an Android system:
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > The trace that i posted was taken without it.
> > >
> > > And if I am not getting too confused, that patch is now in mainline.
> > > So it does make sense to rely on it, then. ;-)
> >
> > Vlad's patch to change the KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES to 5 seconds seems reasonable
> > to me. However, can we unify KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES and LAZY_FLUSH_JIFFIES ?
> >
> This is very good.
>
> Below is a plot that i have taken during one use-case. It is about three
> apps usage in parallel. It was done by running "monkey" test:
>
> wget ftp://vps418301.ovh.net/incoming/monkey_3_apps_slab_usage_5_minutes.png
>
> i set up three apps as usage scenario: Google Chrome, YoTube and Camera.
> I logged the Slab metric from the /proc/meminfo. Sampling rate is 0.1 second.
>
> Please have a look at results. It reflects what i am saying. non-flush
> kvfree RCU variant makes a memory usage higher. What is not acceptable
> for our mobile devices and workloads.
That does look higher, though honestly about ~5%. But that's just the
effect of more "laziness". The graph itself does not show a higher
number of shrinker invocations, in fact I think shrinker invocations
are not happening much that's why the slab holds more memory. The
system may not be under memory pressure?
Anyway, I agree with your point of view and I think my concern does
not even occur with the latest patch on avoiding RCU that I posted
[1], so I come in peace.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20221029132856.3752018-1-joel@joelfernandes.org/
I am going to start merging all the lazy patches to ChromeOS 5.10 now
including your kfree updates, except for [1] while we discuss it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-31 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-19 22:51 [PATCH rcu 0/14] Lazy call_rcu() updates for v6.2 Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 01/14] rcu: Simplify rcu_init_nohz() cpumask handling Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 02/14] rcu: Fix late wakeup when flush of bypass cblist happens Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 03/14] rcu: Fix missing nocb gp wake on rcu_barrier() Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 04/14] rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 05/14] rcu: Refactor code a bit in rcu_nocb_do_flush_bypass() Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 06/14] rcu: Shrinker for lazy rcu Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 07/14] rcuscale: Add laziness and kfree tests Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 08/14] percpu-refcount: Use call_rcu_flush() for atomic switch Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 09/14] rcu/sync: Use call_rcu_flush() instead of call_rcu Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 10/14] rcu/rcuscale: Use call_rcu_flush() for async reader test Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 11/14] rcu/rcutorture: Use call_rcu_flush() where needed Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 12/14] scsi/scsi_error: Use call_rcu_flush() instead of call_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 13/14] workqueue: Make queue_rcu_work() use call_rcu_flush() Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 0:36 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-24 3:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 10:49 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 12:23 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 14:31 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-24 15:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 16:25 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 16:55 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 17:08 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 17:20 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-24 17:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 20:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-24 20:16 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-25 10:48 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-25 15:05 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-26 20:35 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-10-24 20:26 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-24 17:40 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 20:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-25 10:47 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-28 21:23 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-28 21:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-31 13:21 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-31 13:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-31 18:15 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2022-11-01 4:49 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-10-24 16:54 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH rcu 14/14] rxrpc: Use call_rcu_flush() instead of call_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
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