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mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache

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free_pages_and_swap_cache limits release_pages to PAGEVEC_SIZE chunks.
This is not a big deal for the normal release path but it completely kills
memcg uncharge batching which reduces res_counter spin_lock contention.
Dave has noticed this with his page fault scalability test case on a large
machine when the lock was basically dominating on all CPUs:

    80.18%    80.18%  [kernel]               [k] _raw_spin_lock
                  |
                  --- _raw_spin_lock
                     |
                     |--66.59%-- res_counter_uncharge_until
                     |          res_counter_uncharge
                     |          uncharge_batch
                     |          uncharge_list
                     |          mem_cgroup_uncharge_list
                     |          release_pages
                     |          free_pages_and_swap_cache
                     |          tlb_flush_mmu_free
                     |          |
                     |          |--90.12%-- unmap_single_vma
                     |          |          unmap_vmas
                     |          |          unmap_region
                     |          |          do_munmap
                     |          |          vm_munmap
                     |          |          sys_munmap
                     |          |          system_call_fastpath
                     |          |          __GI___munmap
                     |          |
                     |           --9.88%-- tlb_flush_mmu
                     |                     tlb_finish_mmu
                     |                     unmap_region
                     |                     do_munmap
                     |                     vm_munmap
                     |                     sys_munmap
                     |                     system_call_fastpath
                     |                     __GI___munmap

In his case the load was running in the root memcg and that part has been
handled by reverting 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup
res_counter") because this is a clear regression, but the problem remains
inside dedicated memcgs.

There is no reason to limit release_pages to PAGEVEC_SIZE batches other
than lru_lock held times.  This logic, however, can be moved inside the
function.  mem_cgroup_uncharge_list and free_hot_cold_page_list do not
hold any lock for the whole pages_to_free list so it is safe to call them
in a single run.

The release_pages() code was previously breaking the lru_lock each
PAGEVEC_SIZE pages (ie, 14 pages).  However this code has no usage of
pagevecs so switch to breaking the lock at least every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
(32) pages.  This means that the lock acquisition frequency is
approximately halved and the max hold times are approximately doubled.

The now unneeded batching is removed from free_pages_and_swap_cache().

Also update the grossly out-of-date release_pages documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko 2014-10-09 15:28:52 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 01c2965f07
commit aabfb57296
2 changed files with 23 additions and 21 deletions
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30
mm/swap.c
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@ -887,18 +887,14 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
mutex_unlock(&lock);
}
/*
* Batched page_cache_release(). Decrement the reference count on all the
* passed pages. If it fell to zero then remove the page from the LRU and
* free it.
/**
* release_pages - batched page_cache_release()
* @pages: array of pages to release
* @nr: number of pages
* @cold: whether the pages are cache cold
*
* Avoid taking zone->lru_lock if possible, but if it is taken, retain it
* for the remainder of the operation.
*
* The locking in this function is against shrink_inactive_list(): we recheck
* the page count inside the lock to see whether shrink_inactive_list()
* grabbed the page via the LRU. If it did, give up: shrink_inactive_list()
* will free it.
* Decrement the reference count on all the pages in @pages. If it
* fell to zero, remove the page from the LRU and free it.
*/
void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
{
@ -907,6 +903,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
struct zone *zone = NULL;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
unsigned int uninitialized_var(lock_batch);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
struct page *page = pages[i];
@ -920,6 +917,16 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
continue;
}
/*
* Make sure the IRQ-safe lock-holding time does not get
* excessive with a continuous string of pages from the
* same zone. The lock is held only if zone != NULL.
*/
if (zone && ++lock_batch == SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
zone = NULL;
}
if (!put_page_testzero(page))
continue;
@ -930,6 +937,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
if (zone)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock,
flags);
lock_batch = 0;
zone = pagezone;
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
}

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mm/swap_state.c
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@ -265,18 +265,12 @@ void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *page)
void free_pages_and_swap_cache(struct page **pages, int nr)
{
struct page **pagep = pages;
int i;
lru_add_drain();
while (nr) {
int todo = min(nr, PAGEVEC_SIZE);
int i;
for (i = 0; i < todo; i++)
free_swap_cache(pagep[i]);
release_pages(pagep, todo, false);
pagep += todo;
nr -= todo;
}
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
free_swap_cache(pagep[i]);
release_pages(pagep, nr, false);
}
/*