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[03/19] mm: memcg/slab: optimize objcg stock draining

Message ID 20210124050107.0rcfKNymq%akpm@linux-foundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Andrew Morton Jan. 24, 2021, 5:01 a.m. UTC
From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Subject: mm: memcg/slab: optimize objcg stock draining

Imran Khan reported a 16% regression in hackbench results caused by the
commit f2fe7b09a52b ("mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects
instead of pages").  The regression is noticeable in the case of a
consequent allocation of several relatively large slab objects, e.g. 
skb's.  As soon as the amount of stocked bytes exceeds PAGE_SIZE,
drain_obj_stock() and __memcg_kmem_uncharge() are called, and it leads
to a number of atomic operations in page_counter_uncharge().

The corresponding call graph is below (provided by Imran Khan):
  |__alloc_skb
  |    |
  |    |__kmalloc_reserve.isra.61
  |    |    |
  |    |    |__kmalloc_node_track_caller
  |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.88
  |    |    |     obj_cgroup_charge
  |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |__memcg_kmem_charge
  |    |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |    |page_counter_try_charge
  |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |refill_obj_stock
  |    |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |    |drain_obj_stock.isra.68
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |__memcg_kmem_uncharge
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |page_counter_uncharge
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |page_counter_cancel
  |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |__slab_alloc
  |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |    |___slab_alloc
  |    |    |    |    |
  |    |    |    |slab_post_alloc_hook

Instead of directly uncharging the accounted kernel memory, it's possible
to refill the generic page-sized per-cpu stock instead.  It's a much
faster operation, especially on a default hierarchy.  As a bonus,
__memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() will also get faster, so the freeing of
page-sized kernel allocations (e.g.  large kmallocs) will become faster.

A similar change has been done earlier for the socket memory by the commit
475d0487a2ad ("mm: memcontrol: use per-cpu stocks for socket memory
uncharging").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210106042239.2860107-1-guro@fb.com
Fixes: f2fe7b09a52b ("mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of
pages")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reported-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 mm/memcontrol.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
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--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-slab-optimize-objcg-stock-draining
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3115,9 +3115,7 @@  void __memcg_kmem_uncharge(struct mem_cg
 	if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
 		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages);
 
-	page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, nr_pages);
-	if (do_memsw_account())
-		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, nr_pages);
+	refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
 }
 
 /**