On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:23:34PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:12:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 16:02:25 -0700 Roman Gushchin [off-list ref] wrote:

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Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes
to the nearest living ancestor wb. It helps to get rid of per-cgroup
writeback structures themselves and of pinned memory and block cgroups,
which are significantly larger structures (mostly due to large per-cpu
statistics data). This prevents memory waste and helps to avoid
different scalability problems caused by large piles of dying cgroups.

Reuse the existing mechanism of inode switching used for foreign inode
detection. To speed things up batch up to 115 inode switching in a
single operation (the maximum number is selected so that the resulting
struct inode_switch_wbs_context can fit into 1024 bytes). Because
every switching consists of two steps divided by an RCU grace period,
it would be too slow without batching. Please note that the whole
batch counts as a single operation (when increasing/decreasing
isw_nr_in_flight). This allows to keep umounting working (flush the
switching queue), however prevents cleanups from consuming the whole
switching quota and effectively blocking the frn switching.

A cgwb cleanup operation can fail due to different reasons (e.g. not
enough memory, the cgwb has an in-flight/pending io, an attached inode
in a wrong state, etc). In this case the next scheduled cleanup will
make a new attempt. An attempt is made each time a new cgwb is offlined
(in other words a memcg and/or a blkcg is deleted by a user). In the
future an additional attempt scheduled by a timer can be implemented.

...

+/*
+ * Maximum inodes per isw.  A specific value has been chosen to make
+ * struct inode_switch_wbs_context fit into 1024 bytes kmalloc.
+ */
+#define WB_MAX_INODES_PER_ISW	115

Can't we do 1024/sizeof(struct inode_switch_wbs_context)?

It must be something like
DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(1024 - sizeof(struct inode_switch_wbs_context), sizeof(struct inode *)) + 1

Sorry to keep popping in for 1 offs but maybe this instead? I think the
above would result in > 1024 kzalloc() call.

DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(max(1024 - sizeof(struct inode_switch_wbs_context), sizeof(struct inode *)),
                   sizeof(struct inode *))

might need max_t not sure.

But honestly 1024 came out of a thin air too, so I'm not sure it worth it.
I liked the number 128 but then made it fit into the closest kmalloc cache.

Btw, thank you for picking these patches up!

Thanks,
Dennis