[patch] mm: memcontrol: avoid charge statistics churn during page migration

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 16:34:45 EST


Charge migration currently disables IRQs twice to update the charge
statistics for the old page and then again for the new page.

But migration is a seemless transition of a charge from one physical
page to another one of the same size, so this should be a non-event
from an accounting point of view. Leave the statistics alone.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 35 ++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 475ecadd9646..8d65dadeec1b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ static void unlock_page_lru(struct page *page, int isolated)
}

static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- unsigned int nr_pages, bool lrucare)
+ bool lrucare)
{
struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
int isolated;
@@ -2765,16 +2765,6 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,

if (lrucare)
unlock_page_lru(page, isolated);
-
- local_irq_disable();
- mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, nr_pages);
- /*
- * "charge_statistics" updated event counter. Then, check it.
- * Insert ancestor (and ancestor's ancestors), to softlimit RB-tree.
- * if they exceeds softlimit.
- */
- memcg_check_events(memcg, page);
- local_irq_enable();
}

static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_limit_mutex);
@@ -6460,12 +6450,17 @@ void mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
if (!memcg)
return;

+ commit_charge(page, memcg, lrucare);
+
if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
nr_pages <<= compound_order(page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(page), page);
}

- commit_charge(page, memcg, nr_pages, lrucare);
+ local_irq_disable();
+ mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, nr_pages);
+ memcg_check_events(memcg, page);
+ local_irq_enable();

if (do_swap_account && PageSwapCache(page)) {
swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
@@ -6651,7 +6646,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_list(struct list_head *page_list)
void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
bool lrucare)
{
- unsigned int nr_pages = 1;
struct page_cgroup *pc;
int isolated;

@@ -6660,6 +6654,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!lrucare && PageLRU(oldpage), oldpage);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!lrucare && PageLRU(newpage), newpage);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(oldpage) != PageAnon(newpage), newpage);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransHuge(oldpage) != PageTransHuge(newpage),
+ newpage);

if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return;
@@ -6677,12 +6673,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!(pc->flags & PCG_MEM), oldpage);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(do_swap_account && !(pc->flags & PCG_MEMSW), oldpage);

- if (PageTransHuge(oldpage)) {
- nr_pages <<= compound_order(oldpage);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(oldpage), oldpage);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTransHuge(newpage), newpage);
- }
-
if (lrucare)
lock_page_lru(oldpage, &isolated);

@@ -6691,12 +6681,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
if (lrucare)
unlock_page_lru(oldpage, isolated);

- local_irq_disable();
- mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(pc->mem_cgroup, oldpage, -nr_pages);
- memcg_check_events(pc->mem_cgroup, oldpage);
- local_irq_enable();
-
- commit_charge(newpage, pc->mem_cgroup, nr_pages, lrucare);
+ commit_charge(newpage, pc->mem_cgroup, lrucare);
}

/*
--
2.0.3

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