[PATCH v3 00/76] Optimize list lru memory consumption
From: Muchun Song
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 03:33:12 EST
We introduced alloc_inode_sb() in previous version 2, which sets up the
inode reclaim context properly, to allocate filesystems specific inode.
So we have to convert to new API for all filesystems, which is done in
one patch. Some filesystems are easy to convert (just replace
kmem_cache_alloc() to alloc_inode_sb()), while other filesystems need to
do more work. In order to make it easy for maintainers of different
filesystems to review their own maintained part, I split the patch into
patches which are per-filesystem in this version. I am not sure if this
is a good idea, because there is going to be more commits.
In our server, we found a suspected memory leak problem. The kmalloc-32
consumes more than 6GB of memory. Other kmem_caches consume less than 2GB
memory.
After our in-depth analysis, the memory consumption of kmalloc-32 slab
cache is the cause of list_lru_one allocation.
crash> p memcg_nr_cache_ids
memcg_nr_cache_ids = $2 = 24574
memcg_nr_cache_ids is very large and memory consumption of each list_lru
can be calculated with the following formula.
num_numa_node * memcg_nr_cache_ids * 32 (kmalloc-32)
There are 4 numa nodes in our system, so each list_lru consumes ~3MB.
crash> list super_blocks | wc -l
952
Every mount will register 2 list lrus, one is for inode, another is for
dentry. There are 952 super_blocks. So the total memory is 952 * 2 * 3
MB (~5.6GB). But now the number of memory cgroups is less than 500. So I
guess more than 12286 memory cgroups have been created on this machine (I
do not know why there are so many cgroups, it may be a user's bug or
the user really want to do that). Because memcg_nr_cache_ids has not been
reduced to a suitable value. It leads to waste a lot of memory. If we want
to reduce memcg_nr_cache_ids, we have to *reboot* the server. This is not
what we want.
In order to reduce memcg_nr_cache_ids, I had posted a patchset [1] to do
this. But this did not fundamentally solve the problem.
We currently allocate scope for every memcg to be able to tracked on every
superblock instantiated in the system, regardless of whether that superblock
is even accessible to that memcg.
These huge memcg counts come from container hosts where memcgs are confined
to just a small subset of the total number of superblocks that instantiated
at any given point in time.
For these systems with huge container counts, list_lru does not need the
capability of tracking every memcg on every superblock.
What it comes down to is that the list_lru is only needed for a given memcg
if that memcg is instatiating and freeing objects on a given list_lru.
As Dave said, "Which makes me think we should be moving more towards 'add the
memcg to the list_lru at the first insert' model rather than 'instantiate
all at memcg init time just in case'."
This patchset aims to optimize the list lru memory consumption from different
aspects.
Patch 1-6 are code simplification.
Patch 7 converts the array from per-memcg per-node to per-memcg
Patch 8 introduces kmem_cache_alloc_lru()
Patch 9 introduces alloc_inode_sb()
Patch 10-66 convert all filesystems to alloc_inode_sb() respectively.
Patch 70 let list_lru allocation dynamically.
Patch 72 use xarray to optimize per memcg pointer array size.
Patch 73-76 is code simplification.
I had done a easy test to show the optimization. I create 10k memory cgroups
and mount 10k filesystems in the systems. We use free command to show how many
memory does the systems comsumes after this operation (There are 2 numa nodes
in the system).
+-----------------------+------------------------+
| condition | memory consumption |
+-----------------------+------------------------+
| without this patchset | 24464 MB |
+-----------------------+------------------------+
| after patch 7 | 21957 MB | <--------+
+-----------------------+------------------------+ |
| after patch 70 | 6895 MB | |
+-----------------------+------------------------+ |
| after patch 72 | 4367 MB | |
+-----------------------+------------------------+ |
|
The more the number of nodes, the more obvious the effect---+
BTW, there was a recent discussion [2] on the same issue.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210428094949.43579-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210405054848.GA1077931@xxxxxxxxxx/
This series not only optimizes the memory usage of list_lru but also
simplifies the code.
Changelog in v3:
- Fix mixing advanced and normal XArray concepts (Thanks to Matthew).
- Split one patch into per-filesystem patches.
Changelog in v2:
- Update Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst suggested by Dave.
- Add a comment above alloc_inode_sb() suggested by Dave.
- Rework some patch's commit log.
- Add patch 18-21.
Thanks Dave.
Muchun Song (76):
mm: list_lru: fix the return value of list_lru_count_one()
mm: memcontrol: remove kmemcg_id reparenting
mm: memcontrol: remove the kmem states
mm: memcontrol: move memcg_online_kmem() to mem_cgroup_css_online()
mm: list_lru: remove holding lru lock
mm: list_lru: only add memcg-aware lrus to the global lru list
mm: list_lru: optimize memory consumption of arrays
mm: introduce kmem_cache_alloc_lru
fs: introduce alloc_inode_sb() to allocate filesystems specific inode
dax: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
9p: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
adfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
affs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
afs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
befs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
bfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
block: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
btrfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ceph: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
cifs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
coda: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ecryptfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
efs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
erofs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
exfat: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ext2: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ext4: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
fat: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
freevxfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
fuse: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
gfs2: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
hfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
hfsplus: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
hostfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
hpfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
hugetlbfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
isofs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
jffs2: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
jfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
minix: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
nfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
nilfs2: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ntfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ocfs2: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
openpromfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
orangefs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
overlayfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
proc: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
qnx4: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
qnx6: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
reiserfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
romfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
squashfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
sysv: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ubifs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
udf: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ufs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
vboxsf: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
xfs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
zonefs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
ipc: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
shmem: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
net: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
rpc: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
f2fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()
nfs42: use a specific kmem_cache to allocate nfs4_xattr_entry
mm: dcache: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru() to allocate dentry
xarray: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru to allocate xa_node
mm: workingset: use xas_set_lru() to pass shadow_nodes
mm: list_lru: allocate list_lru_one only when needed
mm: list_lru: rename memcg_drain_all_list_lrus to
memcg_reparent_list_lrus
mm: list_lru: replace linear array with xarray
mm: memcontrol: reuse memory cgroup ID for kmem ID
mm: memcontrol: fix cannot alloc the maximum memcg ID
mm: list_lru: rename list_lru_per_memcg to list_lru_memcg
mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_cache_id to memcg_kmem_id
Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 5 +
drivers/dax/super.c | 2 +-
fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 2 +-
fs/adfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/affs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 2 +-
fs/bfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/block_dev.c | 2 +-
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ceph/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 +-
fs/coda/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/dcache.c | 3 +-
fs/ecryptfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/efs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/erofs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/exfat/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ext2/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
fs/f2fs/super.c | 8 +-
fs/fat/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c | 2 +-
fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/gfs2/super.c | 2 +-
fs/hfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/hfsplus/super.c | 2 +-
fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 2 +-
fs/hpfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/isofs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/jffs2/super.c | 2 +-
fs/jfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/minix/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c | 95 ++++---
fs/nilfs2/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ntfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/super.c | 2 +-
fs/openpromfs/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/orangefs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/qnx4/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/qnx6/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/reiserfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/romfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/squashfs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/sysv/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/ubifs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/udf/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ufs/super.c | 2 +-
fs/vboxsf/super.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c | 2 +-
fs/zonefs/super.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 11 +
include/linux/list_lru.h | 16 +-
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 49 ++--
include/linux/slab.h | 3 +
include/linux/swap.h | 5 +-
include/linux/xarray.h | 9 +-
ipc/mqueue.c | 2 +-
lib/xarray.c | 10 +-
mm/list_lru.c | 472 ++++++++++++++++------------------
mm/memcontrol.c | 190 ++------------
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
mm/slab.c | 39 ++-
mm/slab.h | 17 +-
mm/slob.c | 6 +
mm/slub.c | 42 ++-
mm/workingset.c | 2 +-
net/socket.c | 2 +-
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 2 +-
75 files changed, 498 insertions(+), 598 deletions(-)
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