This is a patch for coalescing access to res_counter at charging by percpu
caching. At charge, memcg charges 64pages and remember it in percpu
cache. Because it's cache, drain/flush if necessary.
This version uses public percpu area.
2 benefits for using public percpu area.
1. Sum of stocked charge in the system is limited to # of cpus
not to the number of memcg. This shows better synchonization.
2. drain code for flush/cpuhotplug is very easy (and quick)
The most important point of this patch is that we never touch res_counter
in fast path. The res_counter is system-wide shared counter which is modified
very frequently. We shouldn't touch it as far as we can for avoiding
false sharing.
On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.
[without memcg config]
40156968 page-faults # 0.085 M/sec ( +- 0.046% )
27.67 cache-miss/faults
[root cgroup]
36659599 page-faults # 0.077 M/sec ( +- 0.247% )
31.58 cache miss/faults
[in a child cgroup]
18444157 page-faults # 0.039 M/sec ( +- 0.133% )
69.96 cache miss/faults
[ + coalescing uncharge patch]
27133719 page-faults # 0.057 M/sec ( +- 0.155% )
47.16 cache miss/faults
[ + coalescing uncharge patch + this patch ]
34224709 page-faults # 0.072 M/sec ( +- 0.173% )
34.69 cache miss/faults
Changelog (since Oct/2):
- updated comments
- replaced get_cpu_var() with __get_cpu_var() if possible.
- removed mutex for system-wide drain. adds a counter instead of it.
- removed CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
Changelog (old):
- rebased onto the latest mmotm
- moved charge size check before __GFP_WAIT check for avoiding unnecesary
- added asynchronous flush routine.
- fixed bugs pointed out by Nishimura-san.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: don't do INIT_WORK() repeatedly against the same work_struct]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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