Re: Kswapd in 3.2.0-rc5 is a CPU hog

[Nikolay S.]

Ð ÐÑ., 25/12/2011 Ð 17:09 +0800, Hillf Danton ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > Ok, it's not a shrink_slab() problem - it's just being called ~100uS
> > by kswapd. The pattern is:
> >
> >        - reclaim 94 (batches of 32,32,30) pages from iinactive list
> >          of zone 1, node 0, prio 12
> >        - call shrink_slab
> >                - scan all caches
> >                - all shrinkers return 0 saying nothing to shrink
> >        - 40us gap
> >        - reclaim 10-30 pages from inactive list of zone 2, node 0, prio 12
> >        - call shrink_slab
> >                - scan all caches
> >                - all shrinkers return 0 saying nothing to shrink
> >        - 40us gap
> >        - isolate 9 pages from LRU zone ?, node ?, none isolated, none freed
> >        - isolate 22 pages from LRU zone ?, node ?, none isolated, none freed
> >        - call shrink_slab
> >                - scan all caches
> >                - all shrinkers return 0 saying nothing to shrink
> >        40us gap
> >
> > And it just repeats over and over again. After a while, nid=0,zone=1
> > drops out of the traces, so reclaim only comes in batches of 10-30
> > pages from zone 2 between each shrink_slab() call.
> >
> > The trace starts at 111209.881s, with 944776 pages on the LRUs. It
> > finishes at 111216.1 with kswapd going to sleep on node 0 with
> > 930067 pages on the LRU. So 7 seconds to free 15,000 pages (call it
> > 2,000 pages/s) which is awfully slow....
> >
> Hi all,
> 
> In hope, the added debug info is helpful.
> 
> Hillf
> ---
> 
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c	Fri Dec  9 21:57:40 2011
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c	Sun Dec 25 17:08:14 2011
> @@ -1038,7 +1038,11 @@ void mem_cgroup_lru_del_list(struct page
>  		memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
>  	mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(memcg, page);
>  	/* huge page split is done under lru_lock. so, we have no races. */
> -	MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, lru) -= 1 << compound_order(page);
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, lru) <
> +				(1 << compound_order(page))))
> +		MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, lru) = 0;
> +	else
> +		MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT(mz, lru) -= 1 << compound_order(page);
>  }
> 
>  void mem_cgroup_lru_del(struct page *page)

Hello,

Uhm.., is this patch against 3.2-rc4? I can not apply it. There's no
mem_cgroup_lru_del_list(), but void mem_cgroup_del_lru_list(). Should I
place changes there?

And also, -rc7 is here. May the problem be addressed as part of some
ongoing work? Is there any reason to try -rc7 (the problem requires
several days of uptime to become obvious)?

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