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slab: link memcg kmem_caches on their associated memory cgroup
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With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and
destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can
accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is not
under memory pressure.  When memory reclaim starts under such
conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of
many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large
systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management
code.  This is one of the patches to address the issue.

While a memcg kmem_cache is listed on its root cache's ->children list,
there is no direct way to iterate all kmem_caches which are assocaited
with a memory cgroup.  The only way to iterate them is walking all
caches while filtering out caches which don't match, which would be most
of them.

This makes memcg destruction operations O(N^2) where N is the total
number of slab caches which can be huge.  This combined with the
synchronous RCU operations can tie up a CPU and affect the whole machine
for many hours when memory reclaim triggers offlining and destruction of
the stale memcgs.

This patch adds mem_cgroup->kmem_caches list which goes through
memcg_cache_params->kmem_caches_node of all kmem_caches which are
associated with the memcg.  All memcg specific iterations, including
stat file access, are updated to use the new list instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jay Vana <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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htejun authored and torvalds committed Feb 23, 2017
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/memcontrol.h
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Expand Up @@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
/* Index in the kmem_cache->memcg_params.memcg_caches array */
int kmemcg_id;
enum memcg_kmem_state kmem_state;
struct list_head kmem_caches;
#endif

int last_scanned_node;
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/slab.h
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Expand Up @@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ struct memcg_cache_array {
* @memcg: Pointer to the memcg this cache belongs to.
*
* @children_node: List node for @root_cache->children list.
*
* @kmem_caches_node: List node for @memcg->kmem_caches list.
*/
struct memcg_cache_params {
struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
Expand All @@ -576,6 +578,7 @@ struct memcg_cache_params {
struct {
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct list_head children_node;
struct list_head kmem_caches_node;
};
};
};
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions mm/memcontrol.c
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Expand Up @@ -2837,6 +2837,7 @@ static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
*/
memcg->kmemcg_id = memcg_id;
memcg->kmem_state = KMEM_ONLINE;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->kmem_caches);

return 0;
}
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#ifdef CONFIG_SLABINFO
{
.name = "kmem.slabinfo",
.seq_start = slab_start,
.seq_next = slab_next,
.seq_stop = slab_stop,
.seq_start = memcg_slab_start,
.seq_next = memcg_slab_next,
.seq_stop = memcg_slab_stop,
.seq_show = memcg_slab_show,
},
#endif
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions mm/slab.h
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Expand Up @@ -494,6 +494,9 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache_node *get_node(struct kmem_cache *s, int node)
void *slab_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos);
void *slab_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos);
void slab_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p);
void *memcg_slab_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos);
void *memcg_slab_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos);
void memcg_slab_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p);
int memcg_slab_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p);

void ___cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *x, unsigned long addr);
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36 changes: 29 additions & 7 deletions mm/slab_common.c
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Expand Up @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static int init_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s,
s->memcg_params.root_cache = root_cache;
s->memcg_params.memcg = memcg;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->memcg_params.children_node);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->memcg_params.kmem_caches_node);
return 0;
}

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static void unlink_memcg_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
list_del(&s->memcg_params.children_node);
list_del(&s->memcg_params.kmem_caches_node);
}
#else
static inline int init_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s,
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list_add(&s->memcg_params.children_node,
&root_cache->memcg_params.children);
list_add(&s->memcg_params.kmem_caches_node, &memcg->kmem_caches);

/*
* Since readers won't lock (see cache_from_memcg_idx()), we need a
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get_online_mems();

mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
list_for_each_entry_safe(s, s2, &slab_caches, list) {
if (is_root_cache(s) || s->memcg_params.memcg != memcg)
continue;
list_for_each_entry_safe(s, s2, &memcg->kmem_caches,
memcg_params.kmem_caches_node) {
/*
* The cgroup is about to be freed and therefore has no charges
* left. Hence, all its caches must be empty by now.
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}

#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && !defined(CONFIG_SLOB)
void *memcg_slab_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(seq_css(m));

mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
return seq_list_start(&memcg->kmem_caches, *pos);
}

void *memcg_slab_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(seq_css(m));

return seq_list_next(p, &memcg->kmem_caches, pos);
}

void memcg_slab_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
}

int memcg_slab_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
struct kmem_cache *s = list_entry(p, struct kmem_cache, list);
struct kmem_cache *s = list_entry(p, struct kmem_cache,
memcg_params.kmem_caches_node);
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(seq_css(m));

if (p == slab_caches.next)
if (p == memcg->kmem_caches.next)
print_slabinfo_header(m);
if (!is_root_cache(s) && s->memcg_params.memcg == memcg)
cache_show(s, m);
cache_show(s, m);
return 0;
}
#endif
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