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In memcg_rstat_updated(), we iterate the memcg being updated and its parents to update memcg->vmstats_percpu->stats_updates in the fast path (i.e. no atomic updates). According to my math, this is 3 memory loads (and potentially 3 cache misses) per memcg: - Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu. - Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation). - Load the address of the parent memcg. Avoid most of the cache misses by caching a pointer from each struct memcg_vmstats_percpu to its parent on the corresponding CPU. In this case, for the first memcg we have 2 memory loads (same as above): - Load the address of memcg->vmstats_percpu. - Load vmstats_percpu->stats_updates (based on some percpu calculation). Then for each additional memcg, we need a single load to get the parent's stats_updates directly. This reduces the number of loads from O(3N) to O(2+N) -- where N is the number of memcgs we need to iterate. Additionally, stash a pointer to memcg->vmstats in each struct memcg_vmstats_percpu such that we can access the atomic counter that all CPUs fold into, memcg->vmstats->stats_updates. memcg_should_flush_stats() is changed to memcg_vmstats_needs_flush() to accept a struct memcg_vmstats pointer accordingly. In struct memcg_vmstats_percpu, make sure both pointers together with stats_updates live on the same cacheline. Finally, update mem_cgroup_alloc() to take in a parent pointer and initialize the new cache pointers on each CPU. The percpu loop in mem_cgroup_alloc() may look concerning, but there are multiple similar loops in the cgroup creation path (e.g. cgroup_rstat_init()), most of which are hidden within alloc_percpu(). According to Oliver's testing [1], this fixes multiple 30-38% regressions in vm-scalability, will-it-scale-tlb_flush2, and will-it-scale-fallocate1. This comes at a cost of 2 more pointers per CPU (<2KB on a machine with 128 CPUs). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZbDJsfsZt2ITyo61@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ [yosryahmed@google.com: fix struct memcg_vmstats_percpu size and alignment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240203044612.1234216-1-yosryahmed@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124100023.660032-1-yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Fixes: 8d59d2214c23 ("mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg") Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202401221624.cb53a8ca-oliver.sang@intel.com Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.