From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Michal Koutn?? <mkoutny@suse.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
"Sang, Oliver" <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"lkp@lists.01.org" <lkp@lists.01.org>,
"cgroups@vger.kernel.org" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] memcg: increase MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH to 64
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:30:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwLqW8Bc2CWCJsAE@feng-clx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220822001737.4120417-4-shakeelb@google.com>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 08:17:37AM +0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> For several years, MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH was kept at 32 but with bigger
> machines and the network intensive workloads requiring througput in
> Gbps, 32 is too small and makes the memcg charging path a bottleneck.
> For now, increase it to 64 for easy acceptance to 6.0. We will need to
> revisit this in future for ever increasing demand of higher performance.
>
> Please note that the memcg charge path drain the per-cpu memcg charge
> stock, so there should not be any oom behavior change.
>
> To evaluate the impact of this optimization, on a 72 CPUs machine, we
> ran the following workload in a three level of cgroup hierarchy with top
> level having min and low setup appropriately. More specifically
> memory.min equal to size of netperf binary and memory.low double of
> that.
>
> $ netserver -6
> # 36 instances of netperf with following params
> $ netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K
>
> Results (average throughput of netperf):
> Without (6.0-rc1) 10482.7 Mbps
> With patch 17064.7 Mbps (62.7% improvement)
>
> With the patch, the throughput improved by 62.7%.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
This batch number has long been a pain point :) thanks for the work!
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
- Feng
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 4d31ce55b1c0..70ae91188e16 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -354,10 +354,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
> };
>
> /*
> - * size of first charge trial. "32" comes from vmscan.c's magic value.
> - * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons.
> + * size of first charge trial.
> + * TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons or dynamic based of the
> + * workload.
> */
> -#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 32U
> +#define MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH 64U
>
> extern struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup;
>
> --
> 2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-22 0:17 [PATCH 0/3] memcg: optimizatize charge codepath Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 0:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: page_counter: remove unneeded atomic ops for low/min Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 0:20 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2022-08-22 2:39 ` Feng Tang
2022-08-22 9:55 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 10:18 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 14:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 15:20 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 16:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-23 9:42 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 18:23 ` Roman Gushchin
2022-08-22 0:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: page_counter: rearrange struct page_counter fields Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 0:24 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2022-08-22 4:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 13:06 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2022-08-22 2:10 ` Feng Tang
2022-08-22 4:59 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 10:23 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 15:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 15:15 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 16:04 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 18:27 ` Roman Gushchin
2022-08-22 0:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] memcg: increase MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH to 64 Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 0:24 ` Soheil Hassas Yeganeh
2022-08-22 2:30 ` Feng Tang [this message]
2022-08-22 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 15:09 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 15:22 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-22 16:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-08-22 18:37 ` Roman Gushchin
2022-08-22 19:34 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-23 2:22 ` Roman Gushchin
2022-08-23 4:49 ` Michal Hocko
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