Re: [v5 PATCH 3/4] mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmem

From: Yang Shi
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 12:08:27 EST




On 8/20/19 4:01 AM, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
On 07.08.2019 05:17, Yang Shi wrote:
Currently shrinker is just allocated and can work when memcg kmem is
enabled. But, THP deferred split shrinker is not slab shrinker, it
doesn't make too much sense to have such shrinker depend on memcg kmem.
It should be able to reclaim THP even though memcg kmem is disabled.

Introduce a new shrinker flag, SHRINKER_NONSLAB, for non-slab shrinker.
When memcg kmem is disabled, just such shrinkers can be called in
shrinking memcg slab.

Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks OK for me. But some doubts about naming.

SHRINKER_NONSLAB. There are a lot of shrinkers, which are not
related to slab. For example, mmu_shrinker in arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c.
Intuitively and without mm knowledge, I assume, I would be surprised
why it's not masked as NONSLAB. Can we improve this in some way?

Actually, SHRINKER_NONSLAB just makes sense when the shrinker is also MEMCG_AWARE for now.

I didn't think of a better name, any suggestion? I could add some comment to explain this, non-MEMCG_AWARE shrinker should not care about setting this flag even though it is non-slab.

And, once this patch is in Linus's tree, I will double check if there is any MEMCG_AWARE non-slab shrinker although my quick search didn't show others except inode/dcache and workingset node.


The rest looks OK for me.

Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 19 ++++++++-------
include/linux/shrinker.h | 3 ++-
mm/memcontrol.c | 9 +------
mm/vmscan.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 44c4146..5771816 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -128,9 +128,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup_per_node {
struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter iter[DEF_PRIORITY + 1];
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
struct memcg_shrinker_map __rcu *shrinker_map;
-#endif
+
struct rb_node tree_node; /* RB tree node */
unsigned long usage_in_excess;/* Set to the value by which */
/* the soft limit is exceeded*/
@@ -1253,6 +1252,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
} while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)));
return false;
}
+
+extern int memcg_expand_shrinker_maps(int new_id);
+
+extern void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ int nid, int shrinker_id);
#else
#define mem_cgroup_sockets_enabled 0
static inline void mem_cgroup_sk_alloc(struct sock *sk) { };
@@ -1261,6 +1265,11 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_under_socket_pressure(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
return false;
}
+
+static inline void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ int nid, int shrinker_id)
+{
+}
#endif
struct kmem_cache *memcg_kmem_get_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep);
@@ -1332,10 +1341,6 @@ static inline int memcg_cache_id(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return memcg ? memcg->kmemcg_id : -1;
}
-extern int memcg_expand_shrinker_maps(int new_id);
-
-extern void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- int nid, int shrinker_id);
#else
static inline int memcg_kmem_charge(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp, int order)
@@ -1377,8 +1382,6 @@ static inline void memcg_put_cache_ids(void)
{
}
-static inline void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- int nid, int shrinker_id) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
#endif /* _LINUX_MEMCONTROL_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 9443caf..9e112d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct shrinker {
/* These are for internal use */
struct list_head list;
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
/* ID in shrinker_idr */
int id;
#endif
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct shrinker {
/* Flags */
#define SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE (1 << 0)
#define SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE (1 << 1)
+#define SHRINKER_NONSLAB (1 << 2)
extern int prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker);
extern void register_shrinker_prepared(struct shrinker *shrinker);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index cdbb7a8..d90ded1 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ void memcg_put_cache_ids(void)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
struct workqueue_struct *memcg_kmem_cache_wq;
+#endif
static int memcg_shrinker_map_size;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(memcg_shrinker_map_mutex);
@@ -436,14 +437,6 @@ void memcg_set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid, int shrinker_id)
}
}
-#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
-static int memcg_alloc_shrinker_maps(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-static void memcg_free_shrinker_maps(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { }
-#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
-
/**
* mem_cgroup_css_from_page - css of the memcg associated with a page
* @page: page of interest
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b1b5e5f..093b76d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -174,11 +174,22 @@ struct scan_control {
*/
unsigned long vm_total_pages;
+static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
+ struct reclaim_state *rs)
+{
+ /* Check for an overwrite */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(rs && task->reclaim_state);
+
+ /* Check for the nulling of an already-nulled member */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!rs && !task->reclaim_state);
+
+ task->reclaim_state = rs;
+}
+
static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
/*
* We allow subsystems to populate their shrinker-related
* LRU lists before register_shrinker_prepared() is called
@@ -230,30 +241,7 @@ static void unregister_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
idr_remove(&shrinker_idr, id);
up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
}
-#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
-static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-static void unregister_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
-{
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
-
-static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
- struct reclaim_state *rs)
-{
- /* Check for an overwrite */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(rs && task->reclaim_state);
-
- /* Check for the nulling of an already-nulled member */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!rs && !task->reclaim_state);
-
- task->reclaim_state = rs;
-}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
{
return !sc->target_mem_cgroup;
@@ -308,6 +296,15 @@ static bool memcg_congested(pg_data_t *pgdat,
}
#else
+static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void unregister_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+}
+
static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
{
return true;
@@ -594,7 +591,7 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
return freed;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int priority)
{
@@ -602,7 +599,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
int i;
- if (!memcg_kmem_enabled() || !mem_cgroup_online(memcg))
+ if (!mem_cgroup_online(memcg))
return 0;
if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
@@ -628,6 +625,11 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
continue;
}
+ /* Call non-slab shrinkers even though kmem is disabled */
+ if (!memcg_kmem_enabled() &&
+ !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NONSLAB))
+ continue;
+
ret = do_shrink_slab(&sc, shrinker, priority);
if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY) {
clear_bit(i, map->map);
@@ -664,13 +666,13 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
return freed;
}
-#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
+#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int priority)
{
return 0;
}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
+#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
/**
* shrink_slab - shrink slab caches