From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] per memcg lru_lock
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:48:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod7-dL90jwd2pywpaD8NfUByVU9Y809+RfvJABGdRASYUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190820104532.GP3111@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:45 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue 20-08-19 17:48:23, Alex Shi wrote:
> > This patchset move lru_lock into lruvec, give a lru_lock for each of
> > lruvec, thus bring a lru_lock for each of memcg.
> >
> > Per memcg lru_lock would ease the lru_lock contention a lot in
> > this patch series.
> >
> > In some data center, containers are used widely to deploy different kind
> > of services, then multiple memcgs share per node pgdat->lru_lock which
> > cause heavy lock contentions when doing lru operation.
>
> Having some real world workloads numbers would be more than useful
> for a non trivial change like this. I believe googlers have tried
> something like this in the past but then didn't have really a good
> example of workloads that benefit. I might misremember though. Cc Hugh.
>
We, at Google, have been using per-memcg lru locks for more than 7
years. Per-memcg lru locks are really beneficial for providing
performance isolation if there are multiple distinct jobs/memcgs
running on large machines. We are planning to upstream our internal
implementation. I will let Hugh comment on that.
thanks,
Shakeel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-20 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-20 9:48 [PATCH 00/14] per memcg lru_lock Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm/lru: move pgdat lru_lock into lruvec Alex Shi
2019-08-20 13:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-20 14:11 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 02/14] lru/memcg: move the lruvec->pgdat sync out lru_lock Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 03/14] lru/memcg: using per lruvec lock in un/lock_page_lru Alex Shi
2019-08-26 8:30 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2019-08-26 14:16 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 04/14] lru/compaction: use per lruvec lock in isolate_migratepages_block Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 05/14] lru/huge_page: use per lruvec lock in __split_huge_page Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 06/14] lru/mlock: using per lruvec lock in munlock Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 07/14] lru/swap: using per lruvec lock in page_cache_release Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 08/14] lru/swap: uer lruvec lock in activate_page Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 09/14] lru/swap: uer per lruvec lock in pagevec_lru_move_fn Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 10/14] lru/swap: use per lruvec lock in release_pages Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 11/14] lru/vmscan: using per lruvec lock in lists shrinking Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 12/14] lru/vmscan: use pre lruvec lock in check_move_unevictable_pages Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 13/14] lru/vmscan: using per lruvec lru_lock in get_scan_count Alex Shi
2019-08-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 14/14] mm/lru: fix the comments of lru_lock Alex Shi
2019-08-20 14:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-20 14:21 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-20 10:45 ` [PATCH 00/14] per memcg lru_lock Michal Hocko
2019-08-20 16:48 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2019-08-20 18:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2019-08-21 1:21 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-21 2:00 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-24 1:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2019-08-26 14:35 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-21 18:00 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-08-22 11:56 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-22 15:20 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-08-26 8:39 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2019-08-26 14:22 ` Alex Shi
2019-08-26 14:25 ` Alex Shi
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