Re: [PATCH] Cgroup: Fix memory accounting scalability inshrink_page_list

[Johannes Weiner]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:34:26PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed in a multi-process parallel files reading benchmark I ran on a
> 8 socket machine,  throughput slowed down by a factor of 8 when I ran
> the benchmark within a cgroup container.  I traced the problem to the
> following code path (see below) when we are trying to reclaim memory
> from file cache.  The res_counter_uncharge function is called on every
> page that's reclaimed and created heavy lock contention.  The patch
> below allows the reclaimed pages to be uncharged from the resource
> counter in batch and recovered the regression. 
> 
> Tim
> 
>      40.67%           usemem  [kernel.kallsyms]                   [k] _raw_spin_lock
>                       |
>                       --- _raw_spin_lock
>                          |
>                          |--92.61%-- res_counter_uncharge
>                          |          |
>                          |          |--100.00%-- __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common
>                          |          |          |
>                          |          |          |--100.00%-- mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page
>                          |          |          |          __remove_mapping
>                          |          |          |          shrink_page_list
>                          |          |          |          shrink_inactive_list
>                          |          |          |          shrink_mem_cgroup_zone
>                          |          |          |          shrink_zone
>                          |          |          |          do_try_to_free_pages
>                          |          |          |          try_to_free_pages
>                          |          |          |          __alloc_pages_nodemask
>                          |          |          |          alloc_pages_current
> 
> 
> ---
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good one.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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