Re: [PATCH v2] cpuacct: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING don't prevent percpucputime count

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 04:22:51 EST


* KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-04-30 15:11:15]:

>
> Changelog:
> since v1
> - use percpu_counter_sum() instead percpu_counter_read()
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> Subject: [PATCH v2] cpuacct: VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING don't prevent percpu cputime count
>
> cpuacct_update_stats() is called at every tick updating. and it use percpu_counter
> for avoiding performance degression.
>
> For archs which define VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, every tick would result
> in >1000 units of cputime updates and since this is much much greater
> than percpu_batch_counter, we end up taking spinlock on every tick.
>
> This patch change batch rule. now, any cpu can store "percpu_counter_bach * jiffies"
> cputime in per-cpu cache.
> it mean this patch don't have behavior change if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=n.
>
> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: b/kernel/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/kernel/sched.c 2009-04-30 11:37:47.000000000 +0900
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c 2009-04-30 14:17:00.000000000 +0900
> @@ -10221,6 +10221,7 @@ struct cpuacct {
> };
>
> struct cgroup_subsys cpuacct_subsys;
> +static s32 cpuacct_batch;
>
> /* return cpu accounting group corresponding to this container */
> static inline struct cpuacct *cgroup_ca(struct cgroup *cgrp)
> @@ -10250,6 +10251,9 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *cpuac
> if (!ca->cpuusage)
> goto out_free_ca;
>
> + if (!cpuacct_batch)
> + cpuacct_batch = jiffies_to_cputime(percpu_counter_batch);
> +
> for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++)
> if (percpu_counter_init(&ca->cpustat[i], 0))
> goto out_free_counters;
> @@ -10376,7 +10380,7 @@ static int cpuacct_stats_show(struct cgr
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < CPUACCT_STAT_NSTATS; i++) {
> - s64 val = percpu_counter_read(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> + s64 val = percpu_counter_sum(&ca->cpustat[i]);
> val = cputime64_to_clock_t(val);
> cb->fill(cb, cpuacct_stat_desc[i], val);
> }
> @@ -10446,7 +10450,7 @@ static void cpuacct_update_stats(struct
> ca = task_ca(tsk);
>
> do {
> - percpu_counter_add(&ca->cpustat[idx], val);
> + __percpu_counter_add(&ca->cpustat[idx], val, cpuacct_batch);
> ca = ca->parent;
> } while (ca);
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
>

What do the test results look like with this? I'll see if I can find
some time to test this patch. On a patch read level this seems much better
to me, Peter?

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Balbir
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