Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: introduce memory.events.local

[Roman Gushchin]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:49:09PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The memory controller in cgroup v2 exposes memory.events file for each
> memcg which shows the number of times events like low, high, max, oom
> and oom_kill have happened for the whole tree rooted at that memcg.
> Users can also poll or register notification to monitor the changes in
> that file. Any event at any level of the tree rooted at memcg will
> notify all the listeners along the path till root_mem_cgroup. There are
> existing users which depend on this behavior.
> 
> However there are users which are only interested in the events
> happening at a specific level of the memcg tree and not in the events in
> the underlying tree rooted at that memcg. One such use-case is a
> centralized resource monitor which can dynamically adjust the limits of
> the jobs running on a system. The jobs can create their sub-hierarchy
> for their own sub-tasks. The centralized monitor is only interested in
> the events at the top level memcgs of the jobs as it can then act and
> adjust the limits of the jobs. Using the current memory.events for such
> centralized monitor is very inconvenient. The monitor will keep
> receiving events which it is not interested and to find if the received
> event is interesting, it has to read memory.event files of the next
> level and compare it with the top level one. So, let's introduce
> memory.events.local to the memcg which shows and notify for the events
> at the memcg level.
> 
> Now, does memory.stat and memory.pressure need their local versions.
> IMHO no due to the no internal process contraint of the cgroup v2. The
> memory.stat file of the top level memcg of a job shows the stats and
> vmevents of the whole tree. The local stats or vmevents of the top level
> memcg will only change if there is a process running in that memcg but
> v2 does not allow that. Similarly for memory.pressure there will not be
> any process in the internal nodes and thus no chance of local pressure.

Hi Shakeel!

Local counters make total sense to me. And I think they will very useful
in certain cases. Thank you for working on it!

> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |  7 ++++++-
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 36bdfe8e5965..de77405eec46 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -239,8 +239,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>  	/* OOM-Killer disable */
>  	int		oom_kill_disable;
>  
> -	/* memory.events */
> +	/* memory.events and memory.events.local */
>  	struct cgroup_file events_file;
> +	struct cgroup_file events_local_file;
>  
>  	/* handle for "memory.swap.events" */
>  	struct cgroup_file swap_events_file;
> @@ -286,6 +287,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>  	atomic_long_t		vmevents_local[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
>  
>  	atomic_long_t		memory_events[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS];
> +	atomic_long_t		memory_events_local[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS];
>  
>  	unsigned long		socket_pressure;
>  
> @@ -761,6 +763,9 @@ static inline void count_memcg_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  static inline void memcg_memory_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  				      enum memcg_memory_event event)
>  {
> +	atomic_long_inc(&memcg->memory_events_local[event]);
> +	cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_local_file);
> +
>  	do {
>  		atomic_long_inc(&memcg->memory_events[event]);
>  		cgroup_file_notify(&memcg->events_file);
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 2713b45ec3f0..a746127012fa 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -5648,6 +5648,25 @@ static int memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int memory_events_local_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> +{
> +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_seq(m);
> +
> +	seq_printf(m, "low %lu\n",
> +		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events_local[MEMCG_LOW]));
> +	seq_printf(m, "high %lu\n",
> +		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events_local[MEMCG_HIGH]));
> +	seq_printf(m, "max %lu\n",
> +		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events_local[MEMCG_MAX]));
> +	seq_printf(m, "oom %lu\n",
> +		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events_local[MEMCG_OOM]));
> +	seq_printf(m, "oom_kill %lu\n",
> +		   atomic_long_read(&memcg->memory_events_local[MEMCG_OOM_KILL])
> +		   );

Can you, please, merge this part with the non-local version? Then we'll have
a guarantee that the format is the same.

A helper like this can be used, for example:
    static void __memory_events_show(struct seq_file *m, atomic_long_t *events)
    {
    	seq_printf(...);
    }

Other than that looks good to me.

Thanks!