Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 7 authors, 2022-08-16

Re: [net] 4890b686f4: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -69.4% regression

From: Shakeel Butt <hidden>
Date: 2022-06-27 16:48:18
Also in: linux-mm, linux-s390, linux-sctp, lkml, mptcp, oe-lkp

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 9:26 AM Eric Dumazet [off-list ref] wrote:
[...]
quoted
I simply did the following and got much better results.

But I am not sure if updates to ->usage are really needed that often...
I suspect we need to improve the per-cpu memcg stock usage here. Were
the updates mostly from uncharge path or charge path or that's
irrelevant?

I think doing full drain (i.e. drain_stock()) within __refill_stock()
when the local cache is larger than MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH is not best.
Rather we should always keep at least MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH for such
scenarios.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/page_counter.h b/include/linux/page_counter.h
index 679591301994d316062f92b275efa2459a8349c9..e267be4ba849760117d9fd041e22c2a44658ab36
100644
--- a/include/linux/page_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_counter.h
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
 #define _LINUX_PAGE_COUNTER_H

 #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/cache.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>

 struct page_counter {
-       atomic_long_t usage;
-       unsigned long min;
+       /* contended cache line. */
+       atomic_long_t usage ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+
+       unsigned long min ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
Do we need to align 'min' too?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
        unsigned long low;
        unsigned long high;
        unsigned long max;
@@ -27,12 +30,6 @@ struct page_counter {
        unsigned long watermark;
        unsigned long failcnt;

-       /*
-        * 'parent' is placed here to be far from 'usage' to reduce
-        * cache false sharing, as 'usage' is written mostly while
-        * parent is frequently read for cgroup's hierarchical
-        * counting nature.
-        */
        struct page_counter *parent;
 };

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