From 569b846df54ffb2827b83ce3244c5f032394cba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:47:03 -0800 Subject: memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance bottleneck. One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one. Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic, - charge is done one by one via demand-paging. - uncharge is done by - in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve... - one by one via vmscan/paging. It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability at unmap/truncation. This patch is a for coalescing uncharge. For avoiding scattering memcg's structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge information to the task. A reason for per-task batching is for making use of caller's context information. We do batched uncharge (deleyed uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c). The degree of coalescing depends on callers - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE (memory itself will be freed in this degree.) Then, we'll not coalescing too much. 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 miss/faults [in a child cgroup] 18444157 page-faults # 0.039 M/sec ( +- 0.133% ) 69.96 miss/faults [child with this patch] 27133719 page-faults # 0.057 M/sec ( +- 0.155% ) 47.16 miss/faults We can see some amounts of improvement. (root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch) Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more. Changelog(since 2009/10/02): - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes) - some clean up and commentary/description updates. - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix) Changelog(old): - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case. - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches. - unified patch for callers - added commetns. - make ->do_batch as bool. - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 9bd9144..b6cbd33 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1127,6 +1127,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES p->blocked_on = NULL; /* not blocked yet */ #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR + p->memcg_batch.do_batch = 0; + p->memcg_batch.memcg = NULL; +#endif p->bts = NULL; -- cgit v1.1