From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Theurer <atheurer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/13] fold per-CPU vmstats remotely
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:15:56 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZD/NbAU8gHILW/6w@tpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZD/NAaa5TVcL7Mxm@tpad>
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 08:14:09AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:02:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:03:32 -0300 Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This patch series addresses the following two problems:
> > >
> > > 1. A customer provided evidence indicating that a process
> > > was stalled in direct reclaim:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > 2. With a task that busy loops on a given CPU,
> > > the kworker interruption to execute vmstat_update
> > > is undesired and may exceed latency thresholds
> > > for certain applications.
> > >
> >
> > I don't think I'll be sending this upstream in the next merge window.
> > Because it isn't clear that the added complexity in vmstat handling is
> > justified.
>
> From my POV this is an incorrect statement (that the complexity in
> vmstat handling is not justified).
>
> Andrew, this is the 3rd attempt to fix this problem:
>
> First try: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220127173037.318440631@fedora.localdomain/
>
> Second try: https://patchew.org/linux/20230105125218.031928326@redhat.com/
>
> Third try: syncing vmstats remotely from vmstat_shepherd (this
> patchset).
>
> And also, can you please explain: what is so complicated about the
> vmstat handling? cmpxchg has been around and is used all over the
> kernel, and nobody considers "excessively complicated".
>
> > - Michal's request for more clarity on the end-user requirements
> > seems reasonable.
>
> And i explained to Michal in great detail where the end-user
> requirements come from. For virtualized workloads, there are two
> types of use-cases:
>
> 1) For example, for the MAC scheduler processing must occur every 1ms,
> and a certain amount of computation takes place (and must finish before
> the next 1ms timeframe). A > 50us latency spike as observed by cyclictest
> is considered a "failure".
>
> I showed him a 7us trace caused by, and explained that will extend to >
> 50us in the case of virtualized vCPU.
>
> 2) PLCs. These workloads will also suffer > 50us latency spikes
> which is undesirable.
>
> Can you please explain what additional clarity is required?
>
> RH's performance team, for example, has been performing packet
> latency tests and waiting for this issue to be fixed for about 2
> years now.
>
> Andrew Theurer, can you please explain what problem is the vmstat_work
> interruption causing in your testing?
+CC Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-19 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-20 18:03 [PATCH v7 00/13] fold per-CPU vmstats remotely Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 01/13] vmstat: allow_direct_reclaim should use zone_page_state_snapshot Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:21 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-20 18:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-22 10:03 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 02/13] this_cpu_cmpxchg: ARM64: switch this_cpu_cmpxchg to locked, add _local function Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 03/13] this_cpu_cmpxchg: loongarch: " Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 04/13] this_cpu_cmpxchg: S390: " Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 05/13] this_cpu_cmpxchg: x86: " Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 06/13] add this_cpu_cmpxchg_local and asm-generic definitions Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 07/13] convert this_cpu_cmpxchg users to this_cpu_cmpxchg_local Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 08/13] mm/vmstat: switch counter modification to cmpxchg Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 09/13] vmstat: switch per-cpu vmstat counters to 32-bits Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 10/13] mm/vmstat: use xchg in cpu_vm_stats_fold Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 11/13] mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 12/13] mm/vmstat: refresh stats remotely instead of via work item Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:03 ` [PATCH v7 13/13] vmstat: add pcp remote node draining via cpu_vm_stats_fold Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 20:43 ` Tim Chen
2023-03-22 1:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-20 18:25 ` [PATCH v7 00/13] fold per-CPU vmstats remotely Michal Hocko
2023-03-20 19:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-22 10:13 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-22 11:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-22 13:35 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-22 14:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-23 7:51 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-23 10:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-23 10:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-23 12:17 ` Michal Hocko
2023-03-23 13:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-03-23 13:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-18 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2023-04-19 11:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 11:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2023-04-19 13:44 ` Andrew Theurer
2023-04-20 7:55 ` Michal Hocko
2023-04-23 1:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 11:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 11:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 12:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2023-04-19 13:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 14:35 ` Michal Hocko
2023-04-19 16:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-20 8:40 ` Michal Hocko
2023-04-23 1:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-20 13:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-26 14:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-27 8:31 ` Michal Hocko
2023-04-27 14:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-26 15:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-04-26 16:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-27 8:39 ` Michal Hocko
2023-04-27 16:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-04-19 16:47 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-04-19 19:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2023-05-03 13:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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