From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
Masayoshi Mizuma <msys.mizuma@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm/memcg: Reduce kmemcache memory accounting overhead
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:47:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHSHqmxyu1DkAMYR@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ea6b09-b7ee-36e9-a500-b7141bd3a42b@redhat.com>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:03:13AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 4/9/21 9:51 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 07:18:37PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > With the recent introduction of the new slab memory controller, we
> > > eliminate the need for having separate kmemcaches for each memory
> > > cgroup and reduce overall kernel memory usage. However, we also add
> > > additional memory accounting overhead to each call of kmem_cache_alloc()
> > > and kmem_cache_free().
> > >
> > > For workloads that require a lot of kmemcache allocations and
> > > de-allocations, they may experience performance regression as illustrated
> > > in [1].
> > >
> > > With a simple kernel module that performs repeated loop of 100,000,000
> > > kmem_cache_alloc() and kmem_cache_free() of 64-byte object at module
> > > init. The execution time to load the kernel module with and without
> > > memory accounting were:
> > >
> > > with accounting = 6.798s
> > > w/o accounting = 1.758s
> > >
> > > That is an increase of 5.04s (287%). With this patchset applied, the
> > > execution time became 4.254s. So the memory accounting overhead is now
> > > 2.496s which is a 50% reduction.
> > Hi Waiman!
> >
> > Thank you for working on it, it's indeed very useful!
> > A couple of questions:
> > 1) did your config included lockdep or not?
> The test kernel is based on a production kernel config and so lockdep isn't
> enabled.
> > 2) do you have a (rough) estimation how much each change contributes
> > to the overall reduction?
>
> I should have a better breakdown of the effect of individual patches. I
> rerun the benchmarking module with turbo-boosting disabled to reduce
> run-to-run variation. The execution times were:
>
> Before patch: time = 10.800s (with memory accounting), 2.848s (w/o
> accounting), overhead = 7.952s
> After patch 2: time = 9.140s, overhead = 6.292s
> After patch 3: time = 7.641s, overhead = 4.793s
> After patch 5: time = 6.801s, overhead = 3.953s
Thank you! If there will be v2, I'd include this information into commit logs.
>
> Patches 1 & 4 are preparatory patches that should affect performance.
>
> So the memory accounting overhead was reduced by about half.
This is really great!
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-09 23:18 [PATCH 0/5] mm/memcg: Reduce kmemcache memory accounting overhead Waiman Long
2021-04-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/memcg: Pass both memcg and lruvec to mod_memcg_lruvec_state() Waiman Long
2021-04-12 18:04 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-12 19:24 ` Waiman Long
2021-04-12 19:22 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-04-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/memcg: Introduce obj_cgroup_uncharge_mod_state() Waiman Long
2021-04-12 15:50 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-04-12 18:10 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/memcg: Cache vmstat data in percpu memcg_stock_pcp Waiman Long
2021-04-12 18:22 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-12 19:30 ` Waiman Long
2021-04-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm/memcg: Separate out object stock data into its own struct Waiman Long
2021-04-12 18:53 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-09 23:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/memcg: Optimize user context object stock access Waiman Long
2021-04-12 18:55 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-12 19:58 ` Waiman Long
2021-04-10 1:51 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm/memcg: Reduce kmemcache memory accounting overhead Roman Gushchin
2021-04-12 14:03 ` Waiman Long
2021-04-12 17:47 ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2021-04-12 19:20 ` Waiman Long
2021-04-12 19:05 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-04-12 19:51 ` Waiman Long
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