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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 569b846df5 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 <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
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backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: properly __init-annotate helper functions 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
bounce.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c kill wait_on_page_writeback_range 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
fremap.c
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: abort a hugepage pool resize if a signal is pending 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
Kconfig ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed" 2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Makefile percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator 2009-10-02 13:29:29 +09:00
memcontrol.c memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
memory.c memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix section mismatch in memory_hotplug.c 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempolicy.c ksm: memory hotremove migration only 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mincore.c mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore() 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: replace stale comments in munlock_vma_page() 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: uncached vma support with writenotify 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom-kill: fix NUMA constraint check with nodemask 2009-12-16 07:19:57 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
page_alloc.c oom-kill: fix NUMA constraint check with nodemask 2009-12-16 07:19:57 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c mm hugetlb: add hugepage support to pagemap 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2009-12-08 10:02:12 +09:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c readahead: introduce context readahead algorithm 2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
rmap.c mm: simplify try_to_unmap_one() 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
shmem.c swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
shmem_acl.c shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission' 2009-09-08 11:08:46 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swapfile.c ksm: let shared pages be swappable 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
util.c fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-12-11 06:44:57 -05:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: simplify code 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00