Re: [PATCH v8 6/6] zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure

[Nhat Pham]

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:00 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [..]
> > > @@ -526,6 +582,102 @@ static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_find_get(struct rb_root *root,
> > >       return entry;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +/*********************************
> > > +* shrinker functions
> > > +**********************************/
> > > +static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *l,
> > > +                                    spinlock_t *lock, void *arg);
> > > +
> > > +static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_scan(struct shrinker *shrinker,
> > > +             struct shrink_control *sc)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(sc->memcg, NODE_DATA(sc->nid));
> > > +     unsigned long shrink_ret, nr_protected, lru_size;
> > > +     struct zswap_pool *pool = shrinker->private_data;
> > > +     bool encountered_page_in_swapcache = false;
> > > +
> > > +     nr_protected =
> > > +             atomic_long_read(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected);
> > > +     lru_size = list_lru_shrink_count(&pool->list_lru, sc);
> > > +
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Abort if the shrinker is disabled or if we are shrinking into the
> > > +      * protected region.
> > > +      *
> > > +      * This short-circuiting is necessary because if we have too many multiple
> > > +      * concurrent reclaimers getting the freeable zswap object counts at the
> > > +      * same time (before any of them made reasonable progress), the total
> > > +      * number of reclaimed objects might be more than the number of unprotected
> > > +      * objects (i.e the reclaimers will reclaim into the protected area of the
> > > +      * zswap LRU).
> > > +      */
> > > +     if (!zswap_shrinker_enabled || nr_protected >= lru_size - sc->nr_to_scan) {
> > > +             sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> > > +             return SHRINK_STOP;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     shrink_ret = list_lru_shrink_walk(&pool->list_lru, sc, &shrink_memcg_cb,
> > > +             &encountered_page_in_swapcache);
> > > +
> > > +     if (encountered_page_in_swapcache)
> > > +             return SHRINK_STOP;
> > > +
> > > +     return shrink_ret ? shrink_ret : SHRINK_STOP;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker,
> > > +             struct shrink_control *sc)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct zswap_pool *pool = shrinker->private_data;
> > > +     struct mem_cgroup *memcg = sc->memcg;
> > > +     struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(sc->nid));
> > > +     unsigned long nr_backing, nr_stored, nr_freeable, nr_protected;
> > > +
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
> > > +     cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup);
> > > +     nr_backing = memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_B) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > > +     nr_stored = memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED);
> > > +#else
> > > +     /* use pool stats instead of memcg stats */
> > > +     nr_backing = get_zswap_pool_size(pool) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > > +     nr_stored = atomic_read(&pool->nr_stored);
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > > +     if (!zswap_shrinker_enabled || !nr_stored)
> > When I tested with this series, with !zswap_shrinker_enabled in the default case,
> > I found the performance is much worse than that without this patch.
> >
> > Testcase: memory.max=2G, zswap enabled, kernel build -j32 in a tmpfs directory.
> >
> > The reason seems the above cgroup_rstat_flush(), caused much rstat lock contention
> > to the zswap_store() path. And if I put the "zswap_shrinker_enabled" check above
> > the cgroup_rstat_flush(), the performance become much better.
> >
> > Maybe we can put the "zswap_shrinker_enabled" check above cgroup_rstat_flush()?
>
> Yes, we should do nothing if !zswap_shrinker_enabled. We should also
> use mem_cgroup_flush_stats() here like other places unless accuracy is
> crucial, which I doubt given that reclaim uses
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats().

Ah, good points on both suggestions. We should not do extra work for
non-user. And, this is a best-effort approximation of the memory
saving factor, so as long as it is not *too* far off I think it's
acceptable.

>
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats() has some thresholding to make sure we don't
> do flushes unnecessarily, and I have a pending series in mm-unstable
> that makes that thresholding per-memcg. Keep in mind that adding a
> call to mem_cgroup_flush_stats() will cause a conflict in mm-unstable,
> because the series there adds a memcg argument to
> mem_cgroup_flush_stats(). That should be easily amenable though, I can
> post a fixlet for my series to add the memcg argument there on top of
> users if needed.

Hmm so how should we proceed from here? How about this:

a) I can send a fixlet to move the enablement check above the stats
flushing + use mem_cgroup_flush_stats
b) Then maybe, you can send a fixlet to update this new callsite?

Does that sound reasonable?

>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > > +             return 0;
> > > +
> > > +     nr_protected =
> > > +             atomic_long_read(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected);
> > > +     nr_freeable = list_lru_shrink_count(&pool->list_lru, sc);
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Subtract the lru size by an estimate of the number of pages
> > > +      * that should be protected.
> > > +      */
> > > +     nr_freeable = nr_freeable > nr_protected ? nr_freeable - nr_protected : 0;
> > > +
> > > +     /*
> > > +      * Scale the number of freeable pages by the memory saving factor.
> > > +      * This ensures that the better zswap compresses memory, the fewer
> > > +      * pages we will evict to swap (as it will otherwise incur IO for
> > > +      * relatively small memory saving).
> > > +      */
> > > +     return mult_frac(nr_freeable, nr_backing, nr_stored);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static void zswap_alloc_shrinker(struct zswap_pool *pool)
> > > +{
> > > +     pool->shrinker =
> > > +             shrinker_alloc(SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE, "mm-zswap");
> > > +     if (!pool->shrinker)
> > > +             return;
> > > +
> > > +     pool->shrinker->private_data = pool;
> > > +     pool->shrinker->scan_objects = zswap_shrinker_scan;
> > > +     pool->shrinker->count_objects = zswap_shrinker_count;
> > > +     pool->shrinker->batch = 0;
> > > +     pool->shrinker->seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  /*********************************
> > >  * per-cpu code
> > >  **********************************/
> [..]