Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2] mm: don't call lru draining in the nested lru_cache_disable

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 30-12-21 11:36:27, Minchan Kim wrote:
> lru_cache_disable involves IPIs to drain pagevec of each core,
> which sometimes takes quite long time to complete depending
> on cpu's business, which makes allocation too slow up to
> sveral hundredth milliseconds. Furthermore, the repeated draining
> in the alloc_contig_range makes thing worse considering caller
> of alloc_contig_range usually tries multiple times in the loop.
>
> This patch makes the lru_cache_disable aware of the fact the
> pagevec was already disabled. With that, user of alloc_contig_range
> can disable the lru cache in advance in their context during the
> repeated trial so they can avoid the multiple costly draining
> in cma allocation.

Do you have any numbers on any improvements?

Now to the change. I do not like this much to be honest. LRU cache
disabling is a complex synchronization scheme implemented in
__lru_add_drain_all now you are stacking another level on top of that.

More fundamentally though. I am not sure I understand the problem TBH.
What prevents you from calling lru_cache_disable at the cma level in the
first place?

> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  * from v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211206221006.946661-1-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx/
>    * fix lru_cache_disable race - akpm
> 
>  include/linux/swap.h | 14 ++------------
>  mm/cma.c             |  5 +++++
>  mm/swap.c            | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index ba52f3a3478e..fe18e86a4f13 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -348,19 +348,9 @@ extern void lru_note_cost_page(struct page *);
>  extern void lru_cache_add(struct page *);
>  extern void mark_page_accessed(struct page *);
>  
> -extern atomic_t lru_disable_count;
> -
> -static inline bool lru_cache_disabled(void)
> -{
> -	return atomic_read(&lru_disable_count);
> -}
> -
> -static inline void lru_cache_enable(void)
> -{
> -	atomic_dec(&lru_disable_count);
> -}
> -
> +extern bool lru_cache_disabled(void);
>  extern void lru_cache_disable(void);
> +extern void lru_cache_enable(void);
>  extern void lru_add_drain(void);
>  extern void lru_add_drain_cpu(int cpu);
>  extern void lru_add_drain_cpu_zone(struct zone *zone);
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 995e15480937..60be555c5b95 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>  #include <linux/cma.h>
>  #include <linux/highmem.h>
>  #include <linux/io.h>
> +#include <linux/swap.h>
>  #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>  #include <trace/events/cma.h>
>  
> @@ -453,6 +454,8 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
>  	if (bitmap_count > bitmap_maxno)
>  		goto out;
>  
> +	lru_cache_disable();
> +
>  	for (;;) {
>  		spin_lock_irq(&cma->lock);
>  		bitmap_no = bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off(cma->bitmap,
> @@ -492,6 +495,8 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
>  		start = bitmap_no + mask + 1;
>  	}
>  
> +	lru_cache_enable();
> +
>  	trace_cma_alloc_finish(cma->name, pfn, page, count, align);
>  
>  	/*
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index af3cad4e5378..5f89d7c9a54e 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -847,7 +847,17 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>  
> -atomic_t lru_disable_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +static atomic_t lru_disable_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> +
> +bool lru_cache_disabled(void)
> +{
> +	return atomic_read(&lru_disable_count) != 0;
> +}
> +
> +void lru_cache_enable(void)
> +{
> +	atomic_dec(&lru_disable_count);
> +}
>  
>  /*
>   * lru_cache_disable() needs to be called before we start compiling
> @@ -859,7 +869,21 @@ atomic_t lru_disable_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
>   */
>  void lru_cache_disable(void)
>  {
> -	atomic_inc(&lru_disable_count);
> +	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The lock gaurantees lru_cache is drained when the function
> +	 * returned.
> +	 */
> +	mutex_lock(&lock);
> +	/*
> +	 * If someone is already disabled lru_cache, just return with
> +	 * increasing the lru_disable_count.
> +	 */
> +	if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&lru_disable_count)) {
> +		mutex_unlock(&lock);
> +		return;
> +	}
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  	/*
>  	 * lru_add_drain_all in the force mode will schedule draining on
> @@ -873,6 +897,8 @@ void lru_cache_disable(void)
>  #else
>  	lru_add_and_bh_lrus_drain();
>  #endif
> +	atomic_inc(&lru_disable_count);
> +	mutex_unlock(&lock);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.34.1.448.ga2b2bfdf31-goog

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs