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At the moment memcg stats are read in four contexts: 1. memcg stat user interfaces 2. dirty throttling 3. page fault 4. memory reclaim Currently the kernel flushes the stats for first two cases. Flushing the stats for remaining two casese may have performance impact. Always flushing the memcg stats on the page fault code path may negatively impacts the performance of the applications. In addition flushing in the memory reclaim code path, though treated as slowpath, can become the source of contention for the global lock taken for stat flushing because when system or memcg is under memory pressure, many tasks may enter the reclaim path. This patch uses following mechanisms to solve these challenges: 1. Periodically flush the stats from root memcg every 2 seconds. This will time limit the out of sync stats. 2. Asynchronously flush the stats after fixed number of stat updates. In the worst case the stat can be out of sync by O(nr_cpus * BATCH) for 2 seconds. 3. For avoiding thundering herd to flush the stats particularly from the memory reclaim context, introduce memcg local spinlock and let only one flusher active at a time. This could have been done through cgroup_rstat_lock lock but that lock is used by other subsystem and for userspace reading memcg stats. So, it is better to keep flushers introduced by this patch decoupled from cgroup_rstat_lock. However we would have to use irqsafe version of rstat flush but that is fine as this code path will be flushing for whole tree and do the work for everyone. No one will be waiting for that worker. [shakeelb@google.com: fix sleep-in-wrong context bug] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716212137.1391164-2-shakeelb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714013948.270662-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.