Re: [PATCH] rcu: shrink each possible cpu krcp

[Joel Fernandes]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 2:51 PM Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Due to cpu hotplug. some cpu may be offline after call "kfree_call_rcu"
> > func, if the shrinker is triggered at this time, we should drain each
> > possible cpu "krcp".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/rcu/tree.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index 8ce77d9ac716..619ccbb3fe4b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -3443,7 +3443,7 @@ kfree_rcu_shrink_count(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
> >       unsigned long count = 0;
> >
> >       /* Snapshot count of all CPUs */
> > -     for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > +     for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> >               struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp = per_cpu_ptr(&krc, cpu);
> >
> >               count += READ_ONCE(krcp->count);
> > @@ -3458,7 +3458,7 @@ kfree_rcu_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
> >       int cpu, freed = 0;
> >       unsigned long flags;
> >
> > -     for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > +     for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> >               int count;
> >               struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp = per_cpu_ptr(&krc, cpu);
> >
> > @@ -3491,7 +3491,7 @@ void __init kfree_rcu_scheduler_running(void)
> >       int cpu;
> >       unsigned long flags;
> >
> > -     for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > +     for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> >               struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp = per_cpu_ptr(&krc, cpu);
> >
> >               raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&krcp->lock, flags);
> >
> I agree that it can happen.
>
> Joel, what is your view?

Yes I also think it is possible. The patch LGTM. Another fix could be
to drain the caches in the CPU offline path and save the memory. But
then it will take hit during __get_free_page(). If CPU
offlining/online is not frequent, then it will save the lost memory.

I wonder how other per-cpu caches in the kernel work in such scenarios.

Thoughts?

thanks,

 - Joel