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| author | Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> | 2022-10-24 08:28:41 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-12-01 02:58:40 +0300 |
| commit | f1a7941243c102a44e8847e3b94ff4ff3ec56f25 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d1f4938bbf28c7b35003c1d18bbfce011a61480 /include/linux/percpu_counter.h | |
| parent | 9cd6ffa60256e931503d347006049b8bef508203 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f1a7941243c102a44e8847e3b94ff4ff3ec56f25.tar.xz | |
mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter
Currently mm_struct maintains rss_stats which are updated on page fault
and the unmapping codepaths. For page fault codepath the updates are
cached per thread with the batch of TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH which is 64.
The reason for caching is performance for multithreaded applications
otherwise the rss_stats updates may become hotspot for such applications.
However this optimization comes with the cost of error margin in the rss
stats. The rss_stats for applications with large number of threads can be
very skewed. At worst the error margin is (nr_threads * 64) and we have a
lot of applications with 100s of threads, so the error margin can be very
high. Internally we had to reduce TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH to 32.
Recently we started seeing the unbounded errors for rss_stats for specific
applications which use TCP rx0cp. It seems like vm_insert_pages()
codepath does not sync rss_stats at all.
This patch converts the rss_stats into percpu_counter to convert the error
margin from (nr_threads * 64) to approximately (nr_cpus ^ 2). However
this conversion enable us to get the accurate stats for situations where
accuracy is more important than the cpu cost.
This patch does not make such tradeoffs - we can just use
percpu_counter_add_local() for the updates and percpu_counter_sum() (or
percpu_counter_sync() + percpu_counter_read) for the readers. At the
moment the readers are either procfs interface, oom_killer and memory
reclaim which I think are not performance critical and should be ok with
slow read. However I think we can make that change in a separate patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024052841.3291983-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/percpu_counter.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/percpu_counter.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h index 8ed5fba6d156..bde6c4c1f405 100644 --- a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ #include <linux/threads.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> #include <linux/types.h> -#include <linux/gfp.h> /* percpu_counter batch for local add or sub */ #define PERCPU_COUNTER_LOCAL_BATCH INT_MAX |