[PATCH v3 0/3] mm: workingset: fix the shadow node budget under MGLRU

[Hui Zhu]

From: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 7404bd37cfbe ("mm: workingset: use lruvec_lru_size() to get the
number of lru pages") broke the workingset shadow node budget under
MGLRU: lruvec_lru_size() reads mz->lru_zone_size, which MGLRU never
maintains, so count_shadow_nodes() sees the evictable LRU lists as
empty and the shadow shrinker reclaims eviction tokens almost as fast
as they are created, losing thrashing protection.

Patch 1 extends the dying-mcg stat redirection (previously cgroup v1
only) to all hierarchies, addressing the reparenting race that motivated
7404bd37cfbe.

Patch 2 then switches count_shadow_nodes() back to
lruvec_page_state_local(), which both classic LRU and MGLRU maintain.

Patch 3 recovers the performance.  Patch 1 added an unconditional
rcu_read_lock() to the stat update fast path; patch 3 checks
memcg_is_dying() first and takes the RCU lock only on the rare dying
path.

Changes since v2:
 - Reorder the series: the dying-memcg redirection now comes first and
   the switch back to lruvec_page_state_local() follows it, as
   requested.
 - Patch 1: add the Fixes and Cc stable tags and describe the
   user-visible impact of the bug, as requested.
 - Collect Shakeel's Acked-by.

Performance testing
===================

The test script and the raw results are available at [1].

Environment: 10-vCPU QEMU guest, 8 GiB RAM, cgroup v2; 7 runs per
configuration, medians reported.  Workloads:

  w1-anon-churn: single-threaded anon fault/charge loop in a memcg
                 (MADV_DONTNEED + re-fault, no reclaim).  Every touch
                 is a real fault with charge and memcg stat updates,
                 so it stresses exactly the fast path patch 1 changes.
  w2-file-churn: file read loop under memory.high pressure
                 (reclaim-bound, noisier).
  w3-reparent:   reparent accounting sanity check.

w1-anon-churn (pages/s):

                 classic LRU          MGLRU
base             4393028              4377122
patches 1-2      4385996   (-0.2%)    4352887   (-0.6%)
patches 1-3      4381832   (-0.3%)    4377053   (+0.0%)

w2-file-churn (MB/s):

                 classic LRU          MGLRU
base             8277                 8226
patches 1-2      8226      (-0.6%)    8123      (-1.3%)
patches 1-3      8157      (-1.4%)    8294      (+0.8%)

w3-reparent passed on all kernels.

The small overhead visible with patches 1-2 comes from the redirection
added by patch 1; patch 3 brings w1 back to the base level in both LRU
configurations.  The remaining differences are within run-to-run noise.

[1] https://gist.github.com/teawater/32f373ec41d185d840455eb167321a5a

Changelog:
v3:
According to the comments of Shakeel, reorder the series per review,
add Fixes/Cc stable and the user-visible impact to patch 1.

Hui Zhu (3):
  mm: memcg: redirect stats updates of dying memcgs for all hierarchies
  mm: workingset: use lruvec_page_state_local() to count lru pages
  mm: memcg: skip the RCU lock when the memcg is not dying

 mm/memcontrol.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------
 mm/workingset.c |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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