Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm/memcg: Save both reclaimable & unreclaimable bytes in object stock

[Johannes Weiner]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 08:00:31PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> Currently, the object stock structure caches either reclaimable vmstat
> bytes or unreclaimable vmstat bytes in its object stock structure. The
> hit rate can be improved if both types of vmstat data can be cached
> especially for single-node system.
> 
> This patch supports the cacheing of both type of vmstat data, though
> at the expense of a slightly increased complexity in the caching code.
> For large object (>= PAGE_SIZE), vmstat array is done directly without
> going through the stock caching step.
> 
> On a 2-socket Cascade Lake server with instrumentation enabled, the
> miss rates are shown in the table below.
> 
>   Initial bootup:
> 
>   Kernel       __mod_objcg_state    mod_objcg_state    %age
>   ------       -----------------    ---------------    ----
>   Before patch      634400              3243830        19.6%
>   After patch       419810              3182424        13.2%
> 
>   Parallel kernel build:
> 
>   Kernel       __mod_objcg_state    mod_objcg_state    %age
>   ------       -----------------    ---------------    ----
>   Before patch      24329265           142512465       17.1%
>   After patch       24051721           142445825       16.9%
> 
> There was a decrease of miss rate after initial system bootup. However,
> the miss rate for parallel kernel build remained about the same probably
> because most of the touched kmemcache objects were reclaimable inodes
> and dentries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index c13502eab282..a6dd18f6d8a8 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2212,8 +2212,8 @@ struct obj_stock {
>  	struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
>  	struct pglist_data *cached_pgdat;
>  	unsigned int nr_bytes;
> -	int vmstat_idx;
> -	int vmstat_bytes;
> +	int reclaimable_bytes;		/* NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B */
> +	int unreclaimable_bytes;	/* NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B */

How about

	int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
	int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;

so you don't need the comments?

>  #else
>  	int dummy[0];
>  #endif
> @@ -3217,40 +3217,56 @@ void mod_objcg_state(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, struct pglist_data *pgdat,
>  		     enum node_stat_item idx, int nr)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -	struct obj_stock *stock = get_obj_stock(&flags);
> +	struct obj_stock *stock;
> +	int *bytes, *alt_bytes, alt_idx;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Directly update vmstat array for big object.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(abs(nr) >= PAGE_SIZE))
> +		goto update_vmstat;

This looks like an optimization independent of the vmstat item split?

> +	stock = get_obj_stock(&flags);
> +	if (idx == NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B) {
> +		bytes = &stock->reclaimable_bytes;
> +		alt_bytes = &stock->unreclaimable_bytes;
> +		alt_idx = NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B;
> +	} else {
> +		bytes = &stock->unreclaimable_bytes;
> +		alt_bytes = &stock->reclaimable_bytes;
> +		alt_idx = NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B;
> +	}
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Save vmstat data in stock and skip vmstat array update unless
> -	 * accumulating over a page of vmstat data or when pgdat or idx
> +	 * Try to save vmstat data in stock and skip vmstat array update
> +	 * unless accumulating over a page of vmstat data or when pgdat
>  	 * changes.
>  	 */
>  	if (stock->cached_objcg != objcg) {
>  		/* Output the current data as is */
> -	} else if (!stock->vmstat_bytes) {
> -		/* Save the current data */
> -		stock->vmstat_bytes = nr;
> -		stock->vmstat_idx = idx;
> -		stock->cached_pgdat = pgdat;
> -		nr = 0;
> -	} else if ((stock->cached_pgdat != pgdat) ||
> -		   (stock->vmstat_idx != idx)) {
> -		/* Output the cached data & save the current data */
> -		swap(nr, stock->vmstat_bytes);
> -		swap(idx, stock->vmstat_idx);
> +	} else if (stock->cached_pgdat != pgdat) {
> +		/* Save the current data and output cached data, if any */
> +		swap(nr, *bytes);
>  		swap(pgdat, stock->cached_pgdat);
> +		if (*alt_bytes) {
> +			__mod_objcg_state(objcg, pgdat, alt_idx,
> +					  *alt_bytes);
> +			*alt_bytes = 0;
> +		}

As per the other email, I really don't think optimizing the pgdat
switch (in a percpu cache) is worth this level of complexity.

>  	} else {
> -		stock->vmstat_bytes += nr;
> -		if (abs(stock->vmstat_bytes) > PAGE_SIZE) {
> -			nr = stock->vmstat_bytes;
> -			stock->vmstat_bytes = 0;
> +		*bytes += nr;
> +		if (abs(*bytes) > PAGE_SIZE) {
> +			nr = *bytes;
> +			*bytes = 0;
>  		} else {
>  			nr = 0;
>  		}
>  	}
> -	if (nr)
> -		__mod_objcg_state(objcg, pgdat, idx, nr);
> -
>  	put_obj_stock(flags);
> +	if (!nr)
> +		return;
> +update_vmstat:
> +	__mod_objcg_state(objcg, pgdat, idx, nr);
>  }
>  
>  static bool consume_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, unsigned int nr_bytes)
> @@ -3303,12 +3319,19 @@ static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock *stock)
>  	/*
>  	 * Flush the vmstat data in current stock
>  	 */
> -	if (stock->vmstat_bytes) {
> -		__mod_objcg_state(old, stock->cached_pgdat, stock->vmstat_idx,
> -				  stock->vmstat_bytes);
> +	if (stock->reclaimable_bytes || stock->unreclaimable_bytes) {
> +		int bytes;
> +
> +		if ((bytes = stock->reclaimable_bytes))
> +			__mod_objcg_state(old, stock->cached_pgdat,
> +					  NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B, bytes);
> +		if ((bytes = stock->unreclaimable_bytes))
> +			__mod_objcg_state(old, stock->cached_pgdat,
> +					  NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B, bytes);

The int bytes indirection isn't necessary. It's easier to read even
with the extra lines required to repeat the long stock member names,
because that is quite a common pattern (if (stuff) frob(stuff)).

__mod_objcg_state() also each time does rcu_read_lock() toggling and a
memcg lookup that could be batched, which I think is further proof
that it should just be inlined here.