From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: vmscan: detect file thrashing at the reclaim root
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:35:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJuCfpH_9_S_pSku+BBe3-7sctmjQwCuBHNg_rp5wDr=fF6D0A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112185932.GC179587@cmpxchg.org>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:59 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:45:44AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:45 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 06:01:18PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:53 PM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > We use refault information to determine whether the cache workingset
> > > > > is stable or transitioning, and dynamically adjust the inactive:active
> > > > > file LRU ratio so as to maximize protection from one-off cache during
> > > > > stable periods, and minimize IO during transitions.
> > > > >
> > > > > With cgroups and their nested LRU lists, we currently don't do this
> > > > > correctly. While recursive cgroup reclaim establishes a relative LRU
> > > > > order among the pages of all involved cgroups, refaults only affect
> > > > > the local LRU order in the cgroup in which they are occuring. As a
> > > > > result, cache transitions can take longer in a cgrouped system as the
> > > > > active pages of sibling cgroups aren't challenged when they should be.
> > > > >
> > > > > [ Right now, this is somewhat theoretical, because the siblings, under
> > > > > continued regular reclaim pressure, should eventually run out of
> > > > > inactive pages - and since inactive:active *size* balancing is also
> > > > > done on a cgroup-local level, we will challenge the active pages
> > > > > eventually in most cases. But the next patch will move that relative
> > > > > size enforcement to the reclaim root as well, and then this patch
> > > > > here will be necessary to propagate refault pressure to siblings. ]
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch moves refault detection to the root of reclaim. Instead of
> > > > > remembering the cgroup owner of an evicted page, remember the cgroup
> > > > > that caused the reclaim to happen. When refaults later occur, they'll
> > > > > correctly influence the cross-cgroup LRU order that reclaim follows.
> > > >
> > > > I spent some time thinking about the idea of calculating refault
> > > > distance using target_memcg's inactive_age and then activating
> > > > refaulted page in (possibly) another memcg and I am still having
> > > > trouble convincing myself that this should work correctly. However I
> > > > also was unable to convince myself otherwise... We use refault
> > > > distance to calculate the deficit in inactive LRU space and then
> > > > activate the refaulted page if that distance is less that
> > > > active+inactive LRU size. However making that decision based on LRU
> > > > sizes of one memcg and then activating the page in another one seems
> > > > very counterintuitive to me. Maybe that's just me though...
> > >
> > > It's not activating in a random, unrelated memcg - it's the parental
> > > relationship that makes it work.
> > >
> > > If you have a cgroup tree
> > >
> > > root
> > > |
> > > A
> > > / \
> > > B1 B2
> > >
> > > and reclaim is driven by a limit in A, we are reclaiming the pages in
> > > B1 and B2 as if they were on a single LRU list A (it's approximated by
> > > the round-robin reclaim and has some caveats, but that's the idea).
> > >
> > > So when a page that belongs to B2 gets evicted, it gets evicted from
> > > virtual LRU list A. When it refaults later, we make the (in)active
> > > size and distance comparisons against virtual LRU list A as well.
> > >
> > > The pages on the physical LRU list B2 are not just ordered relative to
> > > its B2 peers, they are also ordered relative to the pages in B1. And
> > > that of course is necessary if we want fair competition between them
> > > under shared reclaim pressure from A.
> >
> > Thanks for clarification. The testcase in your description when group
> > B has a large inactive cache which does not get reclaimed while its
> > sibling group A has to drop its active cache got me under the
> > impression that sibling cgroups (in your reply above B1 and B2) can
> > cause memory pressure in each other. Maybe that's not a legit case and
> > B1 would not cause pressure in B2 without causing pressure in their
> > shared parent A? It now makes more sense to me and I want to confirm
> > that is the case.
>
> Yes. I'm sorry if this was misleading. They should only cause pressure
> onto each other by causing pressure on A; and then reclaim in A treats
> them as one combined pool of pages.
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 20:53 [PATCH 0/3] mm: fix page aging across multiple cgroups Johannes Weiner
2019-11-07 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmscan: move file exhaustion detection to the node level Johannes Weiner
2019-11-10 22:02 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-07 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: vmscan: detect file thrashing at the reclaim root Johannes Weiner
2019-11-11 2:01 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-12 17:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-12 18:45 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-12 18:59 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-12 20:35 ` Suren Baghdasaryan [this message]
2019-11-14 23:47 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-11-15 16:07 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-15 16:52 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-12 10:28 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-02-12 18:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-14 1:17 ` Joonsoo Kim
2019-11-07 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: vmscan: enforce inactive:active ratio " Johannes Weiner
2019-11-11 2:15 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-12 18:00 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-12 19:13 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-12 20:34 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-11-15 0:29 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-11-27 22:16 ` Shakeel Butt
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