[PATCH v5 3/4] memcg: rework usage of stats by soft limit

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

Instead of incrementing counter on each page in/out and comparing it
with constant, we set counter to constant, decrement counter on each
page in/out and compare it with zero. We want to make comparing as fast
as possible. On many RISC systems (probably not only RISC) comparing
with zero is more effective than comparing with a constant, since not
every constant can be immediate operand for compare instruction.

Also, I've renamed MEM_CGROUP_STAT_EVENTS to MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SOFTLIMIT,
since really it's not a generic counter.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

KAMEZAWA-san, I've changed the patch a bit. Can I reuse your Acked-by?

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1d71cb4..c36d4f3 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ enum mem_cgroup_stat_index {
 	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED,  /* # of pages charged as file rss */
 	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_PGPGIN_COUNT,	/* # of pages paged in */
 	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_PGPGOUT_COUNT,	/* # of pages paged out */
-	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_EVENTS,	/* sum of pagein + pageout for internal use */
 	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, /* # of pages, swapped out */
+	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SOFTLIMIT, /* decrements on each page in/out.
+					used by soft limit implementation */
 
 	MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS,
 };
@@ -84,10 +85,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup_stat {
 };
 
 static inline void
-__mem_cgroup_stat_reset_safe(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu *stat,
-				enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx)
+__mem_cgroup_stat_set_safe(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu *stat,
+				enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx, s64 val)
 {
-	stat->count[idx] = 0;
+	stat->count[idx] = val;
 }
 
 static inline s64
@@ -380,9 +381,10 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_soft_limit_check(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 
 	cpu = get_cpu();
 	cpustat = &mem->stat.cpustat[cpu];
-	val = __mem_cgroup_stat_read_local(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_EVENTS);
-	if (unlikely(val > SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_THRESH)) {
-		__mem_cgroup_stat_reset_safe(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_EVENTS);
+	val = __mem_cgroup_stat_read_local(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SOFTLIMIT);
+	if (unlikely(val < 0)) {
+		__mem_cgroup_stat_set_safe(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SOFTLIMIT,
+				SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_THRESH);
 		ret = true;
 	}
 	put_cpu();
@@ -515,7 +517,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 	else
 		__mem_cgroup_stat_add_safe(cpustat,
 				MEM_CGROUP_STAT_PGPGOUT_COUNT, 1);
-	__mem_cgroup_stat_add_safe(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_EVENTS, 1);
+	__mem_cgroup_stat_add_safe(cpustat, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SOFTLIMIT, -1);
 	put_cpu();
 }
 
-- 
1.6.5.7

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/