During the reclaiming slab of a memcg, shrink_slab iterates over all
registered shrinkers in the system, and tries to count and consume
objects related to the cgroup. In case of memory pressure, this behaves
bad: I observe high system time and time spent in list_lru_count_one()
for many processes on RHEL7 kernel.
This patch makes list_lru_node::memcg_lrus rcu protected, that allows to
skip taking spinlock in list_lru_count_one().
Shakeel Butt with the patch observes significant perf graph change. He
says:
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Setup: running a fork-bomb in a memcg of 200MiB on a 8GiB and 4 vcpu
VM and recording the trace with 'perf record -g -a'.
The trace without the patch:
+ 34.19% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath
+ 30.77% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
+ 3.53% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] list_lru_count_one
+ 2.26% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] super_cache_count
+ 1.68% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_slab
+ 0.59% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock
+ 0.48% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
+ 0.38% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node_memcg
+ 0.32% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queue_work_on
+ 0.26% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] count_shadow_nodes
With the patch:
+ 0.16% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] default_idle
+ 0.13% oom_reaper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+ 0.05% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
+ 0.05% init.real [kernel.kallsyms] [k] wait_consider_task
+ 0.05% kworker/0:0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/2:1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/3:1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/1:0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.03% binary [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_page
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Thanks Shakeel for the testing.
[ktkhai@virtuozzo.com: v2]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151203869520.3915.2587549826865799173.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150583358557.26700.8490036563698102569.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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