linux/mm
Johannes Weiner 3e32cb2e0a mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters
Memory is internally accounted in bytes, using spinlock-protected 64-bit
counters, even though the smallest accounting delta is a page.  The
counter interface is also convoluted and does too many things.

Introduce a new lockless word-sized page counter API, then change all
memory accounting over to it.  The translation from and to bytes then only
happens when interfacing with userspace.

The removed locking overhead is noticable when scaling beyond the per-cpu
charge caches - on a 4-socket machine with 144-threads, the following test
shows the performance differences of 288 memcgs concurrently running a
page fault benchmark:

vanilla:

   18631648.500498      task-clock (msec)         #  140.643 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.33% )
         1,380,638      context-switches          #    0.074 K/sec                    ( +-  0.75% )
            24,390      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  8.44% )
     1,843,305,768      page-faults               #    0.099 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
50,134,994,088,218      cycles                    #    2.691 GHz                      ( +-  0.33% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 8,049,712,224,651      instructions              #    0.16  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.04% )
 1,586,970,584,979      branches                  #   85.176 M/sec                    ( +-  0.05% )
     1,724,989,949      branch-misses             #    0.11% of all branches          ( +-  0.48% )

     132.474343877 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.21% )

lockless:

   12195979.037525      task-clock (msec)         #  133.480 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.18% )
           832,850      context-switches          #    0.068 K/sec                    ( +-  0.54% )
            15,624      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +- 10.17% )
     1,843,304,774      page-faults               #    0.151 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
32,811,216,801,141      cycles                    #    2.690 GHz                      ( +-  0.18% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 9,999,265,091,727      instructions              #    0.30  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.10% )
 2,076,759,325,203      branches                  #  170.282 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
     1,656,917,214      branch-misses             #    0.08% of all branches          ( +-  0.55% )

      91.369330729 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.45% )

On top of improved scalability, this also gets rid of the icky long long
types in the very heart of memcg, which is great for 32 bit and also makes
the code a lot more readable.

Notable differences between the old and new API:

- res_counter_charge() and res_counter_charge_nofail() become
  page_counter_try_charge() and page_counter_charge() resp. to match
  the more common kernel naming scheme of try_do()/do()

- res_counter_uncharge_until() is only ever used to cancel a local
  counter and never to uncharge bigger segments of a hierarchy, so
  it's replaced by the simpler page_counter_cancel()

- res_counter_set_limit() is replaced by page_counter_limit(), which
  expects its callers to serialize against themselves

- res_counter_memparse_write_strategy() is replaced by
  page_counter_limit(), which rounds down to the nearest page size -
  rather than up.  This is more reasonable for explicitely requested
  hard upper limits.

- to keep charging light-weight, page_counter_try_charge() charges
  speculatively, only to roll back if the result exceeds the limit.
  Because of this, a failing bigger charge can temporarily lock out
  smaller charges that would otherwise succeed.  The error is bounded
  to the difference between the smallest and the biggest possible
  charge size, so for memcg, this means that a failing THP charge can
  send base page charges into reclaim upto 2MB (4MB) before the limit
  would have been reached.  This should be acceptable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE and memparse]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE, memparse, strncmp, and PAGE_SIZE]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
..
backing-dev.c Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-10-18 11:53:51 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled 2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
bootmem.c mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
cma.c mm/CMA: fix boot regression due to physical address of high_memory 2014-12-10 17:41:02 -08:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: prevent infinite loop in compact_zone 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
debug.c mm/debug.c: use pr_emerg() 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: fixed a brace coding style issue 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c mm/filemap.c: remove trailing whitespace 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
fremap.c mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
frontswap.c mm: frontswap: invalidate expired data on a dup-store failure 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
gup.c mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast() 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise 2014-10-29 16:33:14 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: use lockdep_assert_held rather than spin_is_locked 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm: convert a few VM_BUG_ON callers to VM_BUG_ON_VMA 2014-10-09 22:25:57 -04:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock 2014-11-13 16:17:05 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm: convert a few VM_BUG_ON callers to VM_BUG_ON_VMA 2014-10-09 22:25:57 -04:00
iov_iter.c Fix thinko in iov_iter_single_seg_count 2014-11-13 13:28:55 -05:00
Kconfig mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c mm/slab_common: move kmem_cache definition to internal header 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
kmemleak-test.c mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
ksm.c mm: ksm use pr_err instead of printk 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: update the description for madvise_remove 2014-08-06 18:01:18 -07:00
Makefile mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
memblock.c mem-hotplug: let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range() 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mem-hotplug: reset node present pages when hot-adding a new pgdat 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
memory-failure.c cgroup: remove redundant check in cgroup_ino() 2014-09-19 09:16:23 -04:00
memory.c arm64 updates for 3.19 2014-12-09 13:12:47 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: skip inaccessible VMAs when setting MPOL_MF_LAZY 2014-10-09 22:26:02 -04:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
migrate.c mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 15:44:12 +02:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 09:34:43 -08:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c kvm: Fix page ageing bugs 2014-09-24 14:07:58 +02:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared 2014-10-14 02:18:28 +02:00
mremap.c mm/mremap.c: use linux headers 2014-10-09 22:26:00 -04:00
msync.c msync: fix incorrect fstart calculation 2014-07-03 09:21:53 -07:00
nobootmem.c mem-hotplug: reset node managed pages when hot-adding a new pgdat 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
nommu.c percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init() 2014-09-08 09:51:29 +09:00
oom_kill.c OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend 2014-10-21 23:44:21 +02:00
page_alloc.c mm/debug-pagealloc: correct freepage accounting and order resetting 2014-11-13 16:17:06 -08:00
page_cgroup.c cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup deallocations. 2014-10-29 16:33:13 -07:00
page_counter.c mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
page_io.c fix __swap_writepage() compile failure on old gcc versions 2014-06-14 19:30:48 -05:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock 2014-11-13 16:17:05 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback page accounting 2014-10-29 16:33:15 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: use VM_BUG_ON_MM where possible 2014-10-09 22:25:58 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated 2014-09-02 14:46:05 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move region iterations out of pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() 2014-09-02 14:46:02 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: fix how @gfp is interpreted by the percpu allocator 2014-10-08 12:01:52 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: actually clear pmd_numa before invalidating 2014-08-29 16:28:15 -07:00
process_vm_access.c start adding the tag to iov_iter 2014-05-06 17:32:49 -04:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: remove unused file_ra_state from count_history_pages 2014-08-06 18:01:15 -07:00
rmap.c mm: fix anon_vma_clone() error treatment 2014-12-03 09:36:04 -08:00
shmem.c shmem: support RENAME_WHITEOUT 2014-10-24 00:14:37 +02:00
slab_common.c mm/slab: reverse iteration on find_mergeable() 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slab.c slab: improve checking for invalid gfp_flags 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slab.h slab: replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
slob.c mm/sl[ao]b: always track caller in kmalloc_(node_)track_caller() 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
slub.c slab: improve checking for invalid gfp_flags 2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
swap.c mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
swapfile.c mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API 2014-08-08 15:57:17 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Fix comment before truncate_setsize() 2014-11-07 08:29:25 +11:00
util.c proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly 2014-10-09 22:25:50 -04:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: use seq_open_private() instead of seq_open() 2014-10-09 22:25:56 -04:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn() 2014-12-02 17:32:07 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: memcontrol: fix transparent huge page allocations under pressure 2014-10-09 22:25:59 -04:00
vmstat.c vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers V8 2014-10-09 22:26:02 -04:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist 2014-10-09 22:26:03 -04:00
zpool.c mm/zpool: use prefixed module loading 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking 2014-10-09 22:26:03 -04:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: add __init to zswap_entry_cache_destroy() 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00