Re: [v6 PATCH 07/11] mm: vmscan: add per memcg shrinker nr_deferred

[Kirill Tkhai]

On 03.02.2021 20:20, Yang Shi wrote:
> Currently the number of deferred objects are per shrinker, but some slabs, for example,
> vfs inode/dentry cache are per memcg, this would result in poor isolation among memcgs.
> 
> The deferred objects typically are generated by __GFP_NOFS allocations, one memcg with
> excessive __GFP_NOFS allocations may blow up deferred objects, then other innocent memcgs
> may suffer from over shrink, excessive reclaim latency, etc.
> 
> For example, two workloads run in memcgA and memcgB respectively, workload in B is vfs
> heavy workload.  Workload in A generates excessive deferred objects, then B's vfs cache
> might be hit heavily (drop half of caches) by B's limit reclaim or global reclaim.
> 
> We observed this hit in our production environment which was running vfs heavy workload
> shown as the below tracing log:
> 
> <...>-409454 [016] .... 28286961.747146: mm_shrink_slab_start: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x1a0 ffff9a83046f3458:
> nid: 1 objects to shrink 3641681686040 gfp_flags GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO pgs_scanned 1 lru_pgs 15721
> cache items 246404277 delta 31345 total_scan 123202138
> <...>-409454 [022] .... 28287105.928018: mm_shrink_slab_end: super_cache_scan+0x0/0x1a0 ffff9a83046f3458:
> nid: 1 unused scan count 3641681686040 new scan count 3641798379189 total_scan 602
> last shrinker return val 123186855
> 
> The vfs cache and page cache ration was 10:1 on this machine, and half of caches were dropped.
> This also resulted in significant amount of page caches were dropped due to inodes eviction.
> 
> Make nr_deferred per memcg for memcg aware shrinkers would solve the unfairness and bring
> better isolation.
> 
> When memcg is not enabled (!CONFIG_MEMCG or memcg disabled), the shrinker's nr_deferred
> would be used.  And non memcg aware shrinkers use shrinker's nr_deferred all the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |  7 +++---
>  mm/vmscan.c                | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 4c9253896e25..c457fc7bc631 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -93,12 +93,13 @@ struct lruvec_stat {
>  };
>  
>  /*
> - * Bitmap of shrinker::id corresponding to memcg-aware shrinkers,
> - * which have elements charged to this memcg.
> + * Bitmap and deferred work of shrinker::id corresponding to memcg-aware
> + * shrinkers, which have elements charged to this memcg.
>   */
>  struct shrinker_info {
>  	struct rcu_head rcu;
> -	unsigned long map[];
> +	atomic_long_t *nr_deferred;
> +	unsigned long *map;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index dc0d69e081b0..d9126f12890f 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -196,10 +196,12 @@ static void free_shrinker_info_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
>  }
>  
>  static int expand_one_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> -				   int size, int old_size)
> +				    int m_size, int d_size,
> +				    int old_m_size, int old_d_size)
>  {
>  	struct shrinker_info *new, *old;
>  	int nid;
> +	int size = m_size + d_size;
>  
>  	for_each_node(nid) {
>  		old = rcu_dereference_protected(
> @@ -212,9 +214,15 @@ static int expand_one_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  		if (!new)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -		/* Set all old bits, clear all new bits */
> -		memset(new->map, (int)0xff, old_size);
> -		memset((void *)new->map + old_size, 0, size - old_size);
> +		new->nr_deferred = (atomic_long_t *)(new + 1);
> +		new->map = (void *)new->nr_deferred + d_size;
> +
> +		/* map: set all old bits, clear all new bits */
> +		memset(new->map, (int)0xff, old_m_size);
> +		memset((void *)new->map + old_m_size, 0, m_size - old_m_size);
> +		/* nr_deferred: copy old values, clear all new values */
> +		memcpy(new->nr_deferred, old->nr_deferred, old_d_size);
> +		memset((void *)new->nr_deferred + old_d_size, 0, d_size - old_d_size);
>  
>  		rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, new);
>  		call_rcu(&old->rcu, free_shrinker_info_rcu);
> @@ -229,9 +237,6 @@ void free_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  	struct shrinker_info *info;
>  	int nid;
>  
> -	if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> -		return;
> -
>  	for_each_node(nid) {
>  		pn = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid);
>  		info = rcu_dereference_protected(pn->shrinker_info, true);
> @@ -244,12 +249,13 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
>  	struct shrinker_info *info;
>  	int nid, size, ret = 0;
> -
> -	if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> -		return 0;
> +	int m_size, d_size = 0;
>  
>  	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
> -	size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(shrinker_nr_max);
> +	m_size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(shrinker_nr_max);
> +	d_size = shrinker_nr_max * sizeof(atomic_long_t);
> +	size = m_size + d_size;
> +
>  	for_each_node(nid) {
>  		info = kvzalloc_node(sizeof(*info) + size, GFP_KERNEL, nid);
>  		if (!info) {
> @@ -257,6 +263,8 @@ int alloc_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  			ret = -ENOMEM;
>  			break;
>  		}
> +		info->nr_deferred = (atomic_long_t *)(info + 1);
> +		info->map = (void *)info->nr_deferred + d_size;
>  		rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info, info);
>  	}
>  	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
> @@ -268,10 +276,16 @@ static int expand_shrinker_info(int new_id)
>  {
>  	int size, old_size, ret = 0;
>  	int new_nr_max = new_id + 1;
> +	int m_size, d_size = 0;
> +	int old_m_size, old_d_size = 0;
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>  
> -	size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(new_nr_max);
> -	old_size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(shrinker_nr_max);
> +	m_size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(new_nr_max);
> +	d_size = new_nr_max * sizeof(atomic_long_t);
> +	size = m_size + d_size;
> +	old_m_size = NR_MAX_TO_SHR_MAP_SIZE(shrinker_nr_max);
> +	old_d_size = shrinker_nr_max * sizeof(atomic_long_t);
> +	old_size = old_m_size + old_d_size;
>  	if (size <= old_size)
>  		goto out;

Before this patch we used to allocate shrinker_info with BITS_PER_LONG batching.
So, first registered shrinker used to allocate a map of unsigned long size, and
we could to allocate 63 more shrinkers without maps expanding.

After this patch we will expand maps on every shrinker registration, won't we?
What do you think about batching here?

>  
> @@ -280,9 +294,8 @@ static int expand_shrinker_info(int new_id)
>  
>  	memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
>  	do {
> -		if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> -			continue;
> -		ret = expand_one_shrinker_info(memcg, size, old_size);
> +		ret = expand_one_shrinker_info(memcg, m_size, d_size,
> +					       old_m_size, old_d_size);
>  		if (ret) {
>  			mem_cgroup_iter_break(NULL, memcg);
>  			goto out;
>