The patch titled Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:25:17 -0300 Now that the counters are modified via cmpxchg both CPU locally (via the account functions), and remotely (via cpu_vm_stats_fold), its possible to switch vmstat_shepherd to perform the per-CPU vmstats folding remotely. This fixes the following two problems: 1. A customer provided some evidence which indicates that the idle tick was stopped; albeit, CPU-specific vmstat counters still remained populated. Thus one can only assume quiet_vmstat() was not invoked on return to the idle loop. If I understand correctly, I suspect this divergence might erroneously prevent a reclaim attempt by kswapd. If the number of zone specific free pages are below their per-cpu drift value then zone_page_state_snapshot() is used to compute a more accurate view of the aforementioned statistic. Thus any task blocked on the NUMA node specific pfmemalloc_wait queue will be unable to make significant progress via direct reclaim unless it is killed after being woken up by kswapd (see throttle_direct_reclaim()) 2. With a SCHED_FIFO task that busy loops on a given CPU, and kworker for that CPU at SCHED_OTHER priority, queuing work to sync per-vmstats will either cause that work to never execute, or stalld (i.e. stall daemon) boosts kworker priority which causes a latency violation Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230313162634.509267576@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Christian König Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Xu Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" Cc: Thomas Hellström Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- --- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely +++ a/mm/vmstat.c @@ -2049,6 +2049,23 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_ static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(shepherd, vmstat_shepherd); +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL +/* Flush counters remotely if CPU uses cmpxchg to update its per-CPU counters */ +static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w) +{ + int cpu; + + cpus_read_lock(); + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { + cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu); + cond_resched(); + } + cpus_read_unlock(); + + schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, + round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); +} +#else static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w) { int cpu; @@ -2068,6 +2085,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_ schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); } +#endif static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mtosatti@redhat.com are this_cpu_cmpxchg-arm64-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch this_cpu_cmpxchg-loongarch-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch this_cpu_cmpxchg-s390-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch this_cpu_cmpxchg-x86-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch add-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local-and-asm-generic-definitions.patch convert-this_cpu_cmpxchg-users-to-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local.patch mm-vmstat-switch-counter-modification-to-cmpxchg.patch vmstat-switch-per-cpu-vmstat-counters-to-32-bits.patch mm-vmstat-use-xchg-in-cpu_vm_stats_fold.patch mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch mm-vmstat-refresh-stats-remotely-instead-of-via-work-item.patch vmstat-add-pcp-remote-node-draining-via-cpu_vm_stats_fold.patch