Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcontrol: add {pgscan,pgsteal}_{kswapd,direct} items in memory.stat of cgroup v2

[Michal Hocko]

On Sat 04-06-22 16:22:09, Qi Zheng wrote:
> There are already statistics of {pgscan,pgsteal}_kswapd and
> {pgscan,pgsteal}_direct of memcg event here, but now only the
> sum of the two is displayed in memory.stat of cgroup v2.
> 
> In order to obtain more accurate information during monitoring
> and debugging, and to align with the display in /proc/vmstat,
> it better to display {pgscan,pgsteal}_kswapd and
> {pgscan,pgsteal}_direct separately.
> 
> Also, for forward compatibility, we still display pgscan and
> pgsteal items so that it won't break existing applications.

I do not remember why we have chosen to report cumulative stats rather
than the direct and kswapd parts. Looking back when Roman has introduced
those (http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494530183-30808-1-git-send-email-guro@xxxxxx)
I do not see any discussion around that. So it was likely just not
a priority.

I have just one question. Say we even decide to have a per memcg kswapd
in some form, would we report that into the same counter?

> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In any case
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

One nit below
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 0d3fe0a0c75a..fd78c4d6bbc7 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1460,6 +1460,28 @@ static inline unsigned long memcg_page_state_output(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  	return memcg_page_state(memcg, item) * memcg_page_state_unit(item);
>  }
>  

I would just add the following for clarity

/* Subset of vm_event_item to report for memcg event stats */
> +static const unsigned int memcg_vm_event_stat[] = {
> +	PGSCAN_KSWAPD,
> +	PGSCAN_DIRECT,
> +	PGSTEAL_KSWAPD,
> +	PGSTEAL_DIRECT,
> +	PGFAULT,
> +	PGMAJFAULT,
> +	PGREFILL,
> +	PGACTIVATE,
> +	PGDEACTIVATE,
> +	PGLAZYFREE,
> +	PGLAZYFREED,
> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) && defined(CONFIG_ZSWAP)
> +	ZSWPIN,
> +	ZSWPOUT,
> +#endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +	THP_FAULT_ALLOC,
> +	THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC,
> +#endif
> +};

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs