Changelog: v5: * Replace reference getting with an rcu_read_lock() section for zswap lru modifications (suggested by Yosry) * Add a new prep patch that allows mem_cgroup_iter() to return online cgroup. * Add a callback that updates pool->next_shrink when the cgroup is offlined (suggested by Yosry Ahmed, Johannes Weiner) v4: * Rename list_lru_add to list_lru_add_obj and __list_lru_add to list_lru_add (patch 1) (suggested by Johannes Weiner and Yosry Ahmed) * Some cleanups on the memcg aware LRU patch (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) * Use event interface for the new per-cgroup writeback counters. (patch 3) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) * Abstract zswap's lruvec states and handling into zswap_lruvec_state (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) v3: * Add a patch to export per-cgroup zswap writeback counters * Add a patch to update zswap's kselftest * Separate the new list_lru functions into its own prep patch * Do not start from the top of the hierarchy when encounter a memcg that is not online for the global limit zswap writeback (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) * Do not remove the swap entry from list_lru in __read_swapcache_async() (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) * Removed a redundant zswap pool getting (patch 2) (reported by Ryan Roberts) * Use atomic for the nr_zswap_protected (instead of lruvec's lock) (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) * Remove the per-cgroup zswap shrinker knob (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed) v2: * Fix loongarch compiler errors * Use pool stats instead of memcg stats when !CONFIG_MEMCG_KEM
There are currently several issues with zswap writeback:
1. There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in the zswap pool.
2. We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).
This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure. The new shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.
As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.
Domenico Cerasuolo (3): zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware mm: memcg: add per-memcg zswap writeback stat selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest
Nhat Pham (3): list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 7 + drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 5 +- fs/dcache.c | 8 +- fs/gfs2/quota.c | 6 +- fs/inode.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 2 +- include/linux/list_lru.h | 46 ++- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 9 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 + include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + include/linux/zswap.h | 27 +- mm/list_lru.c | 48 ++- mm/memcontrol.c | 20 +- mm/mmzone.c | 1 + mm/shrinker.c | 4 +- mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 26 +- mm/vmscan.c | 26 +- mm/vmstat.c | 1 + mm/workingset.c | 4 +- mm/zswap.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++--- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 74 ++-- 26 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)
The interface of list_lru is based on the assumption that the list node and the data it represents belong to the same allocated on the correct node/memcg. While this assumption is valid for existing slab objects LRU such as dentries and inodes, it is undocumented, and rather inflexible for certain potential list_lru users (such as the upcoming zswap shrinker and the THP shrinker). It has caused us a lot of issues during our development.
This patch changes list_lru interface so that the caller must explicitly specify numa node and memcg when adding and removing objects. The old list_lru_add() and list_lru_del() are renamed to list_lru_add_obj() and list_lru_del_obj(), respectively.
It also extends the list_lru API with a new function, list_lru_putback, which undoes a previous list_lru_isolate call. Unlike list_lru_add, it does not increment the LRU node count (as list_lru_isolate does not decrement the node count). list_lru_putback also allows for explicit memcg and NUMA node selection.
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 5 ++-- fs/dcache.c | 8 +++--- fs/gfs2/quota.c | 6 ++--- fs/inode.c | 4 +-- fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c | 8 +++--- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 4 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 6 ++--- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 2 +- include/linux/list_lru.h | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- mm/list_lru.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/workingset.c | 4 +-- 12 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c index 138f6d43d13b..e80669d4e037 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int binder_update_page_range(struct binder_alloc *alloc, int allocate,
trace_binder_free_lru_start(alloc, index);
- ret = list_lru_add(&binder_alloc_lru, &page->lru); + ret = list_lru_add_obj(&binder_alloc_lru, &page->lru); WARN_ON(!ret);
trace_binder_free_lru_end(alloc, index); @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ void binder_alloc_deferred_release(struct binder_alloc *alloc) if (!alloc->pages[i].page_ptr) continue;
- on_lru = list_lru_del(&binder_alloc_lru, + on_lru = list_lru_del_obj(&binder_alloc_lru, &alloc->pages[i].lru); page_addr = alloc->buffer + i * PAGE_SIZE; binder_alloc_debug(BINDER_DEBUG_BUFFER_ALLOC, @@ -1287,4 +1287,3 @@ int binder_alloc_copy_from_buffer(struct binder_alloc *alloc, return binder_alloc_do_buffer_copy(alloc, false, buffer, buffer_offset, dest, bytes); } - diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 25ac74d30bff..482d1b34d88d 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ static void d_lru_add(struct dentry *dentry) this_cpu_inc(nr_dentry_unused); if (d_is_negative(dentry)) this_cpu_inc(nr_dentry_negative); - WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_lru_add(&dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru, &dentry->d_lru)); + WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_lru_add_obj( + &dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru, &dentry->d_lru)); }
static void d_lru_del(struct dentry *dentry) @@ -438,7 +439,8 @@ static void d_lru_del(struct dentry *dentry) this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry_unused); if (d_is_negative(dentry)) this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry_negative); - WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_lru_del(&dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru, &dentry->d_lru)); + WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_lru_del_obj( + &dentry->d_sb->s_dentry_lru, &dentry->d_lru)); }
static void d_shrink_del(struct dentry *dentry) @@ -1240,7 +1242,7 @@ static enum lru_status dentry_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item, * * This is guaranteed by the fact that all LRU management * functions are intermediated by the LRU API calls like - * list_lru_add and list_lru_del. List movement in this file + * list_lru_add_obj and list_lru_del_obj. List movement in this file * only ever occur through this functions or through callbacks * like this one, that are called from the LRU API. * diff --git a/fs/gfs2/quota.c b/fs/gfs2/quota.c index 2f1328af34f4..72015594bc83 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/quota.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/quota.c @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static struct gfs2_quota_data *gfs2_qd_search_bucket(unsigned int hash, if (qd->qd_sbd != sdp) continue; if (lockref_get_not_dead(&qd->qd_lockref)) { - list_lru_del(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); + list_lru_del_obj(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); return qd; } } @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static void qd_put(struct gfs2_quota_data *qd) }
qd->qd_lockref.count = 0; - list_lru_add(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); + list_lru_add_obj(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); spin_unlock(&qd->qd_lockref.lock); }
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ void gfs2_quota_cleanup(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp) lockref_mark_dead(&qd->qd_lockref); spin_unlock(&qd->qd_lockref.lock);
- list_lru_del(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); + list_lru_del_obj(&gfs2_qd_lru, &qd->qd_lru); list_add(&qd->qd_lru, &dispose); } spin_unlock(&qd_lock); diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 84bc3c76e5cc..f889ba8dccd9 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static void __inode_add_lru(struct inode *inode, bool rotate) if (!mapping_shrinkable(&inode->i_data)) return;
- if (list_lru_add(&inode->i_sb->s_inode_lru, &inode->i_lru)) + if (list_lru_add_obj(&inode->i_sb->s_inode_lru, &inode->i_lru)) this_cpu_inc(nr_unused); else if (rotate) inode->i_state |= I_REFERENCED; @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ void inode_add_lru(struct inode *inode)
static void inode_lru_list_del(struct inode *inode) { - if (list_lru_del(&inode->i_sb->s_inode_lru, &inode->i_lru)) + if (list_lru_del_obj(&inode->i_sb->s_inode_lru, &inode->i_lru)) this_cpu_dec(nr_unused); }
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c index 2ad66a8922f4..49aaf28a6950 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ nfs4_xattr_entry_lru_add(struct nfs4_xattr_entry *entry) lru = (entry->flags & NFS4_XATTR_ENTRY_EXTVAL) ? &nfs4_xattr_large_entry_lru : &nfs4_xattr_entry_lru;
- return list_lru_add(lru, &entry->lru); + return list_lru_add_obj(lru, &entry->lru); }
static bool @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ nfs4_xattr_entry_lru_del(struct nfs4_xattr_entry *entry) lru = (entry->flags & NFS4_XATTR_ENTRY_EXTVAL) ? &nfs4_xattr_large_entry_lru : &nfs4_xattr_entry_lru;
- return list_lru_del(lru, &entry->lru); + return list_lru_del_obj(lru, &entry->lru); }
/* @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ nfs4_xattr_cache_unlink(struct inode *inode)
oldcache = nfsi->xattr_cache; if (oldcache != NULL) { - list_lru_del(&nfs4_xattr_cache_lru, &oldcache->lru); + list_lru_del_obj(&nfs4_xattr_cache_lru, &oldcache->lru); oldcache->inode = NULL; } nfsi->xattr_cache = NULL; @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ nfs4_xattr_get_cache(struct inode *inode, int add) kref_get(&cache->ref); nfsi->xattr_cache = cache; cache->inode = inode; - list_lru_add(&nfs4_xattr_cache_lru, &cache->lru); + list_lru_add_obj(&nfs4_xattr_cache_lru, &cache->lru); }
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 9c62b4502539..82352c100b49 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ nfsd_file_check_writeback(struct nfsd_file *nf) static bool nfsd_file_lru_add(struct nfsd_file *nf) { set_bit(NFSD_FILE_REFERENCED, &nf->nf_flags); - if (list_lru_add(&nfsd_file_lru, &nf->nf_lru)) { + if (list_lru_add_obj(&nfsd_file_lru, &nf->nf_lru)) { trace_nfsd_file_lru_add(nf); return true; } @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static bool nfsd_file_lru_add(struct nfsd_file *nf)
static bool nfsd_file_lru_remove(struct nfsd_file *nf) { - if (list_lru_del(&nfsd_file_lru, &nf->nf_lru)) { + if (list_lru_del_obj(&nfsd_file_lru, &nf->nf_lru)) { trace_nfsd_file_lru_del(nf); return true; } diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c index 9e7ba04572db..9c2654a8d24b 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ xfs_buf_stale(
atomic_set(&bp->b_lru_ref, 0); if (!(bp->b_state & XFS_BSTATE_DISPOSE) && - (list_lru_del(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru))) + (list_lru_del_obj(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru))) atomic_dec(&bp->b_hold);
ASSERT(atomic_read(&bp->b_hold) >= 1); @@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ xfs_buf_rele( * buffer for the LRU and clear the (now stale) dispose list * state flag */ - if (list_lru_add(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru)) { + if (list_lru_add_obj(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru)) { bp->b_state &= ~XFS_BSTATE_DISPOSE; atomic_inc(&bp->b_hold); } @@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ xfs_buf_rele( * was on was the disposal list */ if (!(bp->b_state & XFS_BSTATE_DISPOSE)) { - list_lru_del(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru); + list_lru_del_obj(&bp->b_target->bt_lru, &bp->b_lru); } else { ASSERT(list_empty(&bp->b_lru)); } diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c index ac6ba646624d..49f619f5aa96 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c @@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ xfs_qm_dqput( struct xfs_quotainfo *qi = dqp->q_mount->m_quotainfo; trace_xfs_dqput_free(dqp);
- if (list_lru_add(&qi->qi_lru, &dqp->q_lru)) + if (list_lru_add_obj(&qi->qi_lru, &dqp->q_lru)) XFS_STATS_INC(dqp->q_mount, xs_qm_dquot_unused); } xfs_dqunlock(dqp); diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c index 94a7932ac570..67d0a8564ff3 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ xfs_qm_dqpurge( * hits zero, so it really should be on the freelist here. */ ASSERT(!list_empty(&dqp->q_lru)); - list_lru_del(&qi->qi_lru, &dqp->q_lru); + list_lru_del_obj(&qi->qi_lru, &dqp->q_lru); XFS_STATS_DEC(dqp->q_mount, xs_qm_dquot_unused);
xfs_qm_dqdestroy(dqp); diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h index b35968ee9fb5..5ef217443299 100644 --- a/include/linux/list_lru.h +++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ void memcg_reparent_list_lrus(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *paren * list_lru_add: add an element to the lru list's tail * @list_lru: the lru pointer * @item: the item to be added. + * @memcg: the cgroup of the sublist to add the item to. + * @nid: the node id of the sublist to add the item to. * * If the element is already part of a list, this function returns doing * nothing. Therefore the caller does not need to keep state about whether or @@ -87,12 +89,28 @@ void memcg_reparent_list_lrus(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *paren * * Return value: true if the list was updated, false otherwise */ -bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item); +bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
/** - * list_lru_del: delete an element to the lru list + * list_lru_add_obj: add an element to the lru list's tail + * @list_lru: the lru pointer + * @item: the item to be added. + * + * This function is similar to list_lru_add(), but the NUMA node and the + * memcg of the sublist is determined by @item list_head. This assumption is + * valid for slab objects LRU such as dentries, inodes, etc. + * + * Return value: true if the list was updated, false otherwise + */ +bool list_lru_add_obj(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item); + +/** + * list_lru_del: delete an element from the lru list * @list_lru: the lru pointer * @item: the item to be deleted. + * @memcg: the cgroup of the sublist to delete the item from. + * @nid: the node id of the sublist to delete the item from. * * This function works analogously as list_lru_add in terms of list * manipulation. The comments about an element already pertaining to @@ -100,7 +118,21 @@ bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item); * * Return value: true if the list was updated, false otherwise */ -bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item); +bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg); + +/** + * list_lru_del_obj: delete an element from the lru list + * @list_lru: the lru pointer + * @item: the item to be deleted. + * + * This function is similar to list_lru_del(), but the NUMA node and the + * memcg of the sublist is determined by @item list_head. This assumption is + * valid for slab objects LRU such as dentries, inodes, etc. + * + * Return value: true if the list was updated, false otherwise. + */ +bool list_lru_del_obj(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item);
/** * list_lru_count_one: return the number of objects currently held by @lru @@ -136,6 +168,14 @@ static inline unsigned long list_lru_count(struct list_lru *lru) void list_lru_isolate(struct list_lru_one *list, struct list_head *item); void list_lru_isolate_move(struct list_lru_one *list, struct list_head *item, struct list_head *head); +/* + * list_lru_putback: undo list_lru_isolate. + * + * Since we might have dropped the LRU lock in between, recompute list_lru_one + * from the node's id and memcg. + */ +void list_lru_putback(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
typedef enum lru_status (*list_lru_walk_cb)(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *list, spinlock_t *lock, void *cb_arg); diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c index a05e5bef3b40..fcca67ac26ec 100644 --- a/mm/list_lru.c +++ b/mm/list_lru.c @@ -116,21 +116,19 @@ list_lru_from_kmem(struct list_lru *lru, int nid, void *ptr, } #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
-bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) +bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { - int nid = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(item)); struct list_lru_node *nlru = &lru->node[nid]; - struct mem_cgroup *memcg; struct list_lru_one *l;
spin_lock(&nlru->lock); if (list_empty(item)) { - l = list_lru_from_kmem(lru, nid, item, &memcg); + l = list_lru_from_memcg_idx(lru, nid, memcg_kmem_id(memcg)); list_add_tail(item, &l->list); /* Set shrinker bit if the first element was added */ if (!l->nr_items++) - set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, - lru_shrinker_id(lru)); + set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, lru_shrinker_id(lru)); nlru->nr_items++; spin_unlock(&nlru->lock); return true; @@ -140,15 +138,25 @@ bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_add);
-bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) +bool list_lru_add_obj(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) { int nid = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(item)); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = list_lru_memcg_aware(lru) ? + mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj(item) : NULL; + + return list_lru_add(lru, item, nid, memcg); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_add_obj); + +bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ struct list_lru_node *nlru = &lru->node[nid]; struct list_lru_one *l;
spin_lock(&nlru->lock); if (!list_empty(item)) { - l = list_lru_from_kmem(lru, nid, item, NULL); + l = list_lru_from_memcg_idx(lru, nid, memcg_kmem_id(memcg)); list_del_init(item); l->nr_items--; nlru->nr_items--; @@ -160,6 +168,16 @@ bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_del);
+bool list_lru_del_obj(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item) +{ + int nid = page_to_nid(virt_to_page(item)); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = list_lru_memcg_aware(lru) ? + mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj(item) : NULL; + + return list_lru_del(lru, item, nid, memcg); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_del_obj); + void list_lru_isolate(struct list_lru_one *list, struct list_head *item) { list_del_init(item); @@ -175,6 +193,20 @@ void list_lru_isolate_move(struct list_lru_one *list, struct list_head *item, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_isolate_move);
+void list_lru_putback(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item, int nid, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + struct list_lru_one *list = + list_lru_from_memcg_idx(lru, nid, memcg_kmem_id(memcg)); + + if (list_empty(item)) { + list_add_tail(item, &list->list); + if (!list->nr_items++) + set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, lru_shrinker_id(lru)); + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_putback); + unsigned long list_lru_count_one(struct list_lru *lru, int nid, struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c index 11045febc383..7d3dacab8451 100644 --- a/mm/workingset.c +++ b/mm/workingset.c @@ -631,12 +631,12 @@ void workingset_update_node(struct xa_node *node)
if (node->count && node->count == node->nr_values) { if (list_empty(&node->private_list)) { - list_lru_add(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list); + list_lru_add_obj(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list); __inc_lruvec_kmem_state(node, WORKINGSET_NODES); } } else { if (!list_empty(&node->private_list)) { - list_lru_del(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list); + list_lru_del_obj(&shadow_nodes, &node->private_list); __dec_lruvec_kmem_state(node, WORKINGSET_NODES); } }
The new zswap writeback scheme requires an online-only memcg hierarchy traversal. Add a new parameter to mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness before returning.
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 17 ++++++++++------- mm/shrinker.c | 4 ++-- mm/vmscan.c | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 6edd3ec4d8d5..55c85f952afd 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -832,7 +832,7 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *, struct mem_cgroup *, - struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *); + struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *, bool online); void mem_cgroup_iter_break(struct mem_cgroup *, struct mem_cgroup *); void mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int (*)(struct task_struct *, void *), void *arg); @@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ static inline struct lruvec *folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave(struct folio *folio, static inline struct mem_cgroup * mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root, struct mem_cgroup *prev, - struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *reclaim) + struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *reclaim, bool online) { return NULL; } diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 61c0c46c2d62..6f7fc0101252 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -221,14 +221,14 @@ enum res_type { * be used for reference counting. */ #define for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, root) \ - for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, NULL); \ + for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, NULL, false); \ iter != NULL; \ - iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, iter, NULL)) + iter = mem_cgroup_iter(root, iter, NULL, false))
#define for_each_mem_cgroup(iter) \ - for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); \ + for (iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); \ iter != NULL; \ - iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL)) + iter = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, iter, NULL, false))
static inline bool task_is_dying(void) { @@ -1139,6 +1139,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_current(void) * @root: hierarchy root * @prev: previously returned memcg, NULL on first invocation * @reclaim: cookie for shared reclaim walks, NULL for full walks + * @online: skip offline memcgs * * Returns references to children of the hierarchy below @root, or * @root itself, or %NULL after a full round-trip. @@ -1153,7 +1154,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_current(void) */ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root, struct mem_cgroup *prev, - struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *reclaim) + struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *reclaim, + bool online) { struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter; struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = NULL; @@ -1223,7 +1225,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root, * is provided by the caller, so we know it's alive * and kicking, and don't take an extra reference. */ - if (css == &root->css || css_tryget(css)) { + if (css == &root->css || (!online && css_tryget(css)) || + css_tryget_online(css)) { memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); break; } @@ -1836,7 +1839,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg, excess = soft_limit_excess(root_memcg);
while (1) { - victim = mem_cgroup_iter(root_memcg, victim, &reclaim); + victim = mem_cgroup_iter(root_memcg, victim, &reclaim, false); if (!victim) { loop++; if (loop >= 2) { diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c index dd91eab43ed3..54f5d3aa4f27 100644 --- a/mm/shrinker.c +++ b/mm/shrinker.c @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int expand_shrinker_info(int new_id) new_size = shrinker_unit_size(new_nr_max); old_size = shrinker_unit_size(shrinker_nr_max);
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { ret = expand_one_shrinker_info(memcg, new_size, old_size, new_nr_max); @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int expand_shrinker_info(int new_id) mem_cgroup_iter_break(NULL, memcg); goto out; } - } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false)) != NULL); out: if (!ret) shrinker_nr_max = new_nr_max; diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2cc0cb41fb32..065d29502580 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -397,10 +397,10 @@ static unsigned long drop_slab_node(int nid) unsigned long freed = 0; struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { freed += shrink_slab(GFP_KERNEL, nid, memcg, 0); - } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false)) != NULL);
return freed; } @@ -3931,7 +3931,7 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) if (!min_ttl || sc->order || sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY) return;
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
@@ -3941,7 +3941,7 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) }
cond_resched(); - } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL))); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false)));
/* * The main goal is to OOM kill if every generation from all memcgs is @@ -5033,7 +5033,7 @@ static void lru_gen_change_state(bool enabled) else static_branch_disable_cpuslocked(&lru_gen_caps[LRU_GEN_CORE]);
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { int nid;
@@ -5057,7 +5057,7 @@ static void lru_gen_change_state(bool enabled) }
cond_resched(); - } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL))); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false))); unlock: mutex_unlock(&state_mutex); put_online_mems(); @@ -5160,7 +5160,7 @@ static void *lru_gen_seq_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) if (!m->private) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { int nid;
@@ -5168,7 +5168,7 @@ static void *lru_gen_seq_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) if (!nr_to_skip--) return get_lruvec(memcg, nid); } - } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL))); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false)));
return NULL; } @@ -5191,7 +5191,7 @@ static void *lru_gen_seq_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
nid = next_memory_node(nid); if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES) { - memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false); if (!memcg) return NULL;
@@ -5794,7 +5794,7 @@ static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) struct mem_cgroup *target_memcg = sc->target_mem_cgroup; struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(target_memcg, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(target_memcg, NULL, NULL, false); do { struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat); unsigned long reclaimed; @@ -5844,7 +5844,7 @@ static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) sc->nr_scanned - scanned, sc->nr_reclaimed - reclaimed);
- } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(target_memcg, memcg, NULL))); + } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(target_memcg, memcg, NULL, false))); }
static void shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) @@ -6511,12 +6511,12 @@ static void kswapd_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc) if (!inactive_is_low(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON)) return;
- memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL, false); do { lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat); shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON); - memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL); + memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL, false); } while (memcg); }
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic:
a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new hotter page to be accepted by zswap. b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 5 + include/linux/zswap.h | 2 + mm/memcontrol.c | 2 + mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 24 +++- mm/zswap.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 6 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 55c85f952afd..95f6c9e60ed1 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -1187,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page) return NULL; }
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg) +{ + return NULL; +} + static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio) { return false; diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h index 2a60ce39cfde..e571e393669b 100644 --- a/include/linux/zswap.h +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio); void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset); void zswap_swapon(int type); void zswap_swapoff(int type); +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
#else
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {} static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {} static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {} +static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
#endif
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6f7fc0101252..2ef49b471a16 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5640,6 +5640,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
+ zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(memcg); + memcg_offline_kmem(memcg); reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg); wb_memcg_offline(memcg); diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h index 73c332ee4d91..c0dc73e10e91 100644 --- a/mm/swap.h +++ b/mm/swap.h @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct swap_iocb **plug); struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, - bool *new_page_allocated); + bool *new_page_allocated, + bool skip_if_exists); struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t flag, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx); struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t flag, diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 85d9e5806a6a..6c84236382f3 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -412,7 +412,8 @@ struct folio *filemap_get_incore_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, - bool *new_page_allocated) + bool *new_page_allocated, + bool skip_if_exists) { struct swap_info_struct *si; struct folio *folio; @@ -470,6 +471,17 @@ struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, if (err != -EEXIST) goto fail_put_swap;
+ /* + * Protect against a recursive call to __read_swap_cache_async() + * on the same entry waiting forever here because SWAP_HAS_CACHE + * is set but the folio is not the swap cache yet. This can + * happen today if mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio() below + * triggers reclaim through zswap, which may call + * __read_swap_cache_async() in the writeback path. + */ + if (skip_if_exists) + goto fail_put_swap; + /* * We might race against __delete_from_swap_cache(), and * stumble across a swap_map entry whose SWAP_HAS_CACHE @@ -537,7 +549,7 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
mpol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr, 0, &ilx); page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); mpol_cond_put(mpol);
if (page_allocated) @@ -654,7 +666,7 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, /* Ok, do the async read-ahead now */ page = __read_swap_cache_async( swp_entry(swp_type(entry), offset), - gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, &page_allocated); + gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, &page_allocated, false); if (!page) continue; if (page_allocated) { @@ -672,7 +684,7 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, skip: /* The page was likely read above, so no need for plugging here */ page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); return page; @@ -827,7 +839,7 @@ static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, pte_unmap(pte); pte = NULL; page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (!page) continue; if (page_allocated) { @@ -847,7 +859,7 @@ static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, skip: /* The page was likely read above, so no need for plugging here */ page = __read_swap_cache_async(targ_entry, gfp_mask, mpol, targ_ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); return page; diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index 2e691cd1a466..2654b0d214cc 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/workqueue.h> +#include <linux/list_lru.h>
#include "swap.h" #include "internal.h" @@ -172,8 +173,9 @@ struct zswap_pool { struct work_struct shrink_work; struct hlist_node node; char tfm_name[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME]; - struct list_head lru; - spinlock_t lru_lock; + struct list_lru list_lru; + spinlock_t next_shrink_lock; + struct mem_cgroup *next_shrink; };
/* @@ -289,15 +291,42 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void) zswap_pool_total_size = total; }
+/* should be called under RCU */ +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL; +} + +static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry)); +} + +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + struct zswap_pool *pool; + + /* lock out zswap pools list modification */ + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); + list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) { + spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + if (pool->next_shrink == memcg) + pool->next_shrink = + mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true); + spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + } + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); +} + /********************************* * zswap entry functions **********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry; - entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp); + entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1; @@ -310,6 +339,61 @@ static void zswap_entry_cache_free(struct zswap_entry *entry) kmem_cache_free(zswap_entry_cache, entry); }
+/********************************* +* lru functions +**********************************/ +static void zswap_lru_add(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + /* + * Note that it is safe to use rcu_read_lock() here, even in the face of + * concurrent memcg offlining. Thanks to the memcg->kmemcg_id indirection + * used in list_lru lookup, only two scenarios are possible: + * + * 1. list_lru_add() is called before memcg->kmemcg_id is updated. The + * new entry will be reparented to memcg's parent's list_lru. + * 2. list_lru_add() is called after memcg->kmemcg_id is updated. The + * new entry will be added directly to memcg's parent's list_lru. + * + * Similar reasoning holds for list_lru_del() and list_lru_putback(). + */ + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + /* will always succeed */ + list_lru_add(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + +static void zswap_lru_del(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + /* will always succeed */ + list_lru_del(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + +static void zswap_lru_putback(struct list_lru *list_lru, + struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + spinlock_t *lock = &list_lru->node[nid].lock; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + spin_lock(lock); + /* we cannot use list_lru_add here, because it increments node's lru count */ + list_lru_putback(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + spin_unlock(lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + /********************************* * rbtree functions **********************************/ @@ -394,9 +478,7 @@ static void zswap_free_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) if (!entry->length) atomic_dec(&zswap_same_filled_pages); else { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_del(&entry->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + zswap_lru_del(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle); zswap_pool_put(entry->pool); } @@ -630,21 +712,15 @@ static void zswap_invalidate_entry(struct zswap_tree *tree, zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); }
-static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) +static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *l, + spinlock_t *lock, void *arg) { - struct zswap_entry *entry; + struct zswap_entry *entry = container_of(item, struct zswap_entry, lru); struct zswap_tree *tree; pgoff_t swpoffset; - int ret; + enum lru_status ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY; + int writeback_result;
- /* Get an entry off the LRU */ - spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock); - if (list_empty(&pool->lru)) { - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); - return -EINVAL; - } - entry = list_last_entry(&pool->lru, struct zswap_entry, lru); - list_del_init(&entry->lru); /* * Once the lru lock is dropped, the entry might get freed. The * swpoffset is copied to the stack, and entry isn't deref'd again @@ -652,28 +728,32 @@ static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) */ swpoffset = swp_offset(entry->swpentry); tree = zswap_trees[swp_type(entry->swpentry)]; - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); + list_lru_isolate(l, item); + /* + * It's safe to drop the lock here because we return either + * LRU_REMOVED_RETRY or LRU_RETRY. + */ + spin_unlock(lock);
/* Check for invalidate() race */ spin_lock(&tree->lock); - if (entry != zswap_rb_search(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset)) { - ret = -EAGAIN; + if (entry != zswap_rb_search(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset)) goto unlock; - } + /* Hold a reference to prevent a free during writeback */ zswap_entry_get(entry); spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
- ret = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, tree); + writeback_result = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, tree);
spin_lock(&tree->lock); - if (ret) { - /* Writeback failed, put entry back on LRU */ - spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock); - list_move(&entry->lru, &pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); + if (writeback_result) { + zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++; + zswap_lru_putback(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); + ret = LRU_RETRY; goto put_unlock; } + zswap_written_back_pages++;
/* * Writeback started successfully, the page now belongs to the @@ -687,27 +767,76 @@ static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); unlock: spin_unlock(&tree->lock); - return ret ? -EAGAIN : 0; + spin_lock(lock); + return ret; +} + +static int shrink_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + struct zswap_pool *pool; + int nid, shrunk = 0; + + /* + * Skip zombies because their LRUs are reparented and we would be + * reclaiming from the parent instead of the dead memcg. + */ + if (memcg && !mem_cgroup_online(memcg)) + return -ENOENT; + + pool = zswap_pool_current_get(); + if (!pool) + return -EINVAL; + + for_each_node_state(nid, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { + unsigned long nr_to_walk = 1; + + shrunk += list_lru_walk_one(&pool->list_lru, nid, memcg, + &shrink_memcg_cb, NULL, &nr_to_walk); + } + zswap_pool_put(pool); + return shrunk ? 0 : -EAGAIN; }
static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w) { struct zswap_pool *pool = container_of(w, typeof(*pool), shrink_work); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; int ret, failures = 0;
+ /* global reclaim will select cgroup in a round-robin fashion. */ do { - ret = zswap_reclaim_entry(pool); - if (ret) { - zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++; - if (ret != -EAGAIN) - break; + spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + memcg = pool->next_shrink = + mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true); + + /* full round trip */ + if (!memcg) { + spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); if (++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) break; + + goto resched; } + + /* + * Acquire an extra reference to the iterated memcg in case the + * original reference is dropped by the zswap offlining callback. + */ + css_get(&memcg->css); + spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + + ret = shrink_memcg(memcg); + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + + if (ret == -EINVAL) + break; + if (ret && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) + break; + +resched: cond_resched(); } while (!zswap_can_accept()); - zswap_pool_put(pool); }
static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) @@ -765,11 +894,11 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) */ kref_init(&pool->kref); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->lru); - spin_lock_init(&pool->lru_lock); + list_lru_init_memcg(&pool->list_lru, NULL); INIT_WORK(&pool->shrink_work, shrink_worker);
zswap_pool_debug("created", pool); + spin_lock_init(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
return pool;
@@ -832,6 +961,13 @@ static void zswap_pool_destroy(struct zswap_pool *pool)
cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE, &pool->node); free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx); + list_lru_destroy(&pool->list_lru); + + spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + mem_cgroup_put(pool->next_shrink); + pool->next_shrink = NULL; + spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + for (i = 0; i < ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS; i++) zpool_destroy_pool(pool->zpools[i]); kfree(pool); @@ -1079,7 +1215,7 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry, /* try to allocate swap cache page */ mpol = get_task_policy(current); page = __read_swap_cache_async(swpentry, GFP_KERNEL, mpol, - NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, &page_was_allocated); + NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, &page_was_allocated, true); if (!page) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto fail; @@ -1145,7 +1281,6 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry, /* start writeback */ __swap_writepage(page, &wbc); put_page(page); - zswap_written_back_pages++;
return ret;
@@ -1202,6 +1337,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) struct scatterlist input, output; struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx; struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL; struct zswap_pool *pool; struct zpool *zpool; unsigned int dlen = PAGE_SIZE; @@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock); - - /* - * XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a - * cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on - * local cgroup limits. - */ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio); - if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) - goto reject; + if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) { + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg); + if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) { + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + goto reject; + } + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + }
/* reclaim space if needed */ if (zswap_is_full()) { @@ -1258,7 +1394,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) }
/* allocate entry */ - entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL); + entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, page_to_nid(page)); if (!entry) { zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++; goto reject; @@ -1285,6 +1421,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) if (!entry->pool) goto freepage;
+ if (objcg) { + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg); + if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &entry->pool->list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) { + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + goto put_pool; + } + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + } + /* compress */ acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
@@ -1361,9 +1506,8 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } if (entry->length) { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_add(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru); + zswap_lru_add(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
@@ -1376,6 +1520,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
put_dstmem: mutex_unlock(acomp_ctx->mutex); +put_pool: zswap_pool_put(entry->pool); freepage: zswap_entry_cache_free(entry); @@ -1470,9 +1615,8 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, entry); folio_mark_dirty(folio); } else if (entry->length) { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_move(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + zswap_lru_del(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); + zswap_lru_add(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); } zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic:
a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new hotter page to be accepted by zswap. b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 5 + include/linux/zswap.h | 2 + mm/memcontrol.c | 2 + mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 24 +++- mm/zswap.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 6 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 55c85f952afd..95f6c9e60ed1 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -1187,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page) return NULL; }
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg) +{
return NULL;
+}
static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio) { return false; diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h index 2a60ce39cfde..e571e393669b 100644 --- a/include/linux/zswap.h +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio); void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset); void zswap_swapon(int type); void zswap_swapoff(int type); +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
#else
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {} static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {} static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {} +static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
#endif
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6f7fc0101252..2ef49b471a16 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5640,6 +5640,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(memcg);
I think the "_cleanup" suffix is unnecessary. I guess most calls made here are cleanup calls anyway.
memcg_offline_kmem(memcg); reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg); wb_memcg_offline(memcg);
diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h index 73c332ee4d91..c0dc73e10e91 100644 --- a/mm/swap.h +++ b/mm/swap.h
@@ -289,15 +291,42 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void) zswap_pool_total_size = total; }
+/* should be called under RCU */ +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry)
Do not use "get" in the name if we are not actually taking a ref here. mem_cgroup_from_entry()?
+{
return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL;
+}
+static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{
return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry));
+}
+void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{
struct zswap_pool *pool;
/* lock out zswap pools list modification */
spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) {
spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
This lock is only needed to synchronize updating pool->next_shrink, right? Can we just use atomic operations instead? (e.g. cmpxchg()).
if (pool->next_shrink == memcg)
pool->next_shrink =
mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+}
/*********************************
- zswap entry functions
**********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry;
entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1;
[..]
@@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
/*
* XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a
* cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on
* local cgroup limits.
*/ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
goto reject;
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto reject;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
Can we just use RCU here as well? (same around memcg_list_lru_alloc() call below).
} /* reclaim space if needed */ if (zswap_is_full()) {
@@ -1258,7 +1394,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) }
/* allocate entry */
entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, page_to_nid(page)); if (!entry) { zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++; goto reject;
@@ -1285,6 +1421,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) if (!entry->pool) goto freepage;
if (objcg) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &entry->pool->list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto put_pool;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
}
/* compress */ acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 12:26 PM Yosry Ahmed yosryahmed@google.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic:
a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new hotter page to be accepted by zswap. b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 5 + include/linux/zswap.h | 2 + mm/memcontrol.c | 2 + mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 24 +++- mm/zswap.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 6 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 55c85f952afd..95f6c9e60ed1 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -1187,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page) return NULL; }
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg) +{
return NULL;
+}
static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio) { return false; diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h index 2a60ce39cfde..e571e393669b 100644 --- a/include/linux/zswap.h +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio); void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset); void zswap_swapon(int type); void zswap_swapoff(int type); +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
#else
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {} static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {} static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {} +static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
#endif
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 6f7fc0101252..2ef49b471a16 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5640,6 +5640,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(memcg);
I think the "_cleanup" suffix is unnecessary. I guess most calls made here are cleanup calls anyway.
I don't have any strong preference here.
memcg_offline_kmem(memcg); reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg); wb_memcg_offline(memcg);
diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h index 73c332ee4d91..c0dc73e10e91 100644 --- a/mm/swap.h +++ b/mm/swap.h
@@ -289,15 +291,42 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void) zswap_pool_total_size = total; }
+/* should be called under RCU */ +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry)
Do not use "get" in the name if we are not actually taking a ref here. mem_cgroup_from_entry()?
That works for me.
+{
return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL;
+}
+static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{
return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry));
+}
+void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{
struct zswap_pool *pool;
/* lock out zswap pools list modification */
spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) {
spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
This lock is only needed to synchronize updating pool->next_shrink, right? Can we just use atomic operations instead? (e.g. cmpxchg()).
I'm not entirely sure. I think in the pool destroy path, we have to also put the next_shrink memcg, so there's that.
if (pool->next_shrink == memcg)
pool->next_shrink =
mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+}
/*********************************
- zswap entry functions
**********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry;
entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1;
[..]
@@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
/*
* XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a
* cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on
* local cgroup limits.
*/ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
goto reject;
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto reject;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
Can we just use RCU here as well? (same around memcg_list_lru_alloc() call below).
For memcg_list_lru_alloc(): there's potentially sleeping in that piece of code I believe? I believe at the very least we'll have to use this gfp_t flag for it to be rcu-safe:
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN not sure the
Same go for this particular place IIRC - there's some sleeping done in zswap_writeback_entry(), correct?
} /* reclaim space if needed */ if (zswap_is_full()) {
@@ -1258,7 +1394,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) }
/* allocate entry */
entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, page_to_nid(page)); if (!entry) { zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++; goto reject;
@@ -1285,6 +1421,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) if (!entry->pool) goto freepage;
if (objcg) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &entry->pool->list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto put_pool;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
}
/* compress */ acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
This lock is only needed to synchronize updating pool->next_shrink, right? Can we just use atomic operations instead? (e.g. cmpxchg()).
I'm not entirely sure. I think in the pool destroy path, we have to also put the next_shrink memcg, so there's that.
We can use xchg() to replace it with NULL, then put the memcg ref, no?
We can also just hold zswap_pools_lock while shrinking the memcg perhaps? It's not a contended lock anyway. It just feels weird to add a spinlock to protect one pointer.
if (pool->next_shrink == memcg)
pool->next_shrink =
mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+}
/*********************************
- zswap entry functions
**********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry;
entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1;
[..]
@@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
/*
* XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a
* cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on
* local cgroup limits.
*/ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
goto reject;
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto reject;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
Can we just use RCU here as well? (same around memcg_list_lru_alloc() call below).
For memcg_list_lru_alloc(): there's potentially sleeping in that piece of code I believe? I believe at the very least we'll have to use this gfp_t flag for it to be rcu-safe:
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN not sure the
Same go for this particular place IIRC - there's some sleeping done in zswap_writeback_entry(), correct?
Ah right, I missed this. My bad.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 12:58 PM Yosry Ahmed yosryahmed@google.com wrote:
This lock is only needed to synchronize updating pool->next_shrink, right? Can we just use atomic operations instead? (e.g. cmpxchg()).
I'm not entirely sure. I think in the pool destroy path, we have to also put the next_shrink memcg, so there's that.
We can use xchg() to replace it with NULL, then put the memcg ref, no?
We can also just hold zswap_pools_lock while shrinking the memcg perhaps? It's not a contended lock anyway. It just feels weird to add a spinlock to protect one pointer.
Ah this sounds good to me I guess. I'm not opposed to this simplification of the concurrency scheme.
if (pool->next_shrink == memcg)
pool->next_shrink =
mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
+}
/*********************************
- zswap entry functions
**********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry;
entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1;
[..]
@@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
/*
* XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a
* cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on
* local cgroup limits.
*/ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
goto reject;
if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
goto reject;
}
mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
Can we just use RCU here as well? (same around memcg_list_lru_alloc() call below).
For memcg_list_lru_alloc(): there's potentially sleeping in that piece of code I believe? I believe at the very least we'll have to use this gfp_t flag for it to be rcu-safe:
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN not sure the
Same go for this particular place IIRC - there's some sleeping done in zswap_writeback_entry(), correct?
Ah right, I missed this. My bad.
Rename get_mem_cgroup_from_entry() to mem_cgroup_from_entry() and use the zswap_pools_lock for next_shrink update.
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed yosryahmed@google.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- mm/zswap.c | 22 +++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index 2654b0d214cc..f1998dbd3519 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ struct zswap_pool { struct hlist_node node; char tfm_name[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME]; struct list_lru list_lru; - spinlock_t next_shrink_lock; struct mem_cgroup *next_shrink; };
@@ -292,7 +291,7 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void) }
/* should be called under RCU */ -static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) +static inline struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) { return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL; } @@ -309,11 +308,9 @@ void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) /* lock out zswap pools list modification */ spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) { - spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); if (pool->next_shrink == memcg) pool->next_shrink = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true); - spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); } spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); } @@ -360,7 +357,7 @@ static void zswap_lru_add(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) * Similar reasoning holds for list_lru_del() and list_lru_putback(). */ rcu_read_lock(); - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); /* will always succeed */ list_lru_add(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); rcu_read_unlock(); @@ -372,7 +369,7 @@ static void zswap_lru_del(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
rcu_read_lock(); - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); /* will always succeed */ list_lru_del(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); rcu_read_unlock(); @@ -386,7 +383,7 @@ static void zswap_lru_putback(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
rcu_read_lock(); - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); spin_lock(lock); /* we cannot use list_lru_add here, because it increments node's lru count */ list_lru_putback(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); @@ -806,13 +803,13 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w)
/* global reclaim will select cgroup in a round-robin fashion. */ do { - spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); memcg = pool->next_shrink = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
/* full round trip */ if (!memcg) { - spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); if (++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) break;
@@ -824,7 +821,7 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w) * original reference is dropped by the zswap offlining callback. */ css_get(&memcg->css); - spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
ret = shrink_memcg(memcg); mem_cgroup_put(memcg); @@ -898,7 +895,6 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) INIT_WORK(&pool->shrink_work, shrink_worker);
zswap_pool_debug("created", pool); - spin_lock_init(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
return pool;
@@ -963,10 +959,10 @@ static void zswap_pool_destroy(struct zswap_pool *pool) free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx); list_lru_destroy(&pool->list_lru);
- spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); mem_cgroup_put(pool->next_shrink); pool->next_shrink = NULL; - spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock); + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
for (i = 0; i < ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS; i++) zpool_destroy_pool(pool->zpools[i]);
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic:
a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new hotter page to be accepted by zswap. b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 5 + include/linux/zswap.h | 2 + mm/memcontrol.c | 2 + mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 24 +++- mm/zswap.c | 248 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 6 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 86adce081a08..83590fd0d6d1 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -1187,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page) return NULL; }
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg) +{ + return NULL; +} + static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio) { return false; diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h index 2a60ce39cfde..e571e393669b 100644 --- a/include/linux/zswap.h +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio); void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset); void zswap_swapon(int type); void zswap_swapoff(int type); +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
#else
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {} static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {} static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {} +static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
#endif
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 163d59b585a5..ef8a75462785 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5616,6 +5616,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0); page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
+ zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(memcg); + memcg_offline_kmem(memcg); reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg); wb_memcg_offline(memcg); diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h index 73c332ee4d91..c0dc73e10e91 100644 --- a/mm/swap.h +++ b/mm/swap.h @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct swap_iocb **plug); struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, - bool *new_page_allocated); + bool *new_page_allocated, + bool skip_if_exists); struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t flag, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx); struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t flag, diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 85d9e5806a6a..6c84236382f3 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -412,7 +412,8 @@ struct folio *filemap_get_incore_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mempolicy *mpol, pgoff_t ilx, - bool *new_page_allocated) + bool *new_page_allocated, + bool skip_if_exists) { struct swap_info_struct *si; struct folio *folio; @@ -470,6 +471,17 @@ struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, if (err != -EEXIST) goto fail_put_swap;
+ /* + * Protect against a recursive call to __read_swap_cache_async() + * on the same entry waiting forever here because SWAP_HAS_CACHE + * is set but the folio is not the swap cache yet. This can + * happen today if mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio() below + * triggers reclaim through zswap, which may call + * __read_swap_cache_async() in the writeback path. + */ + if (skip_if_exists) + goto fail_put_swap; + /* * We might race against __delete_from_swap_cache(), and * stumble across a swap_map entry whose SWAP_HAS_CACHE @@ -537,7 +549,7 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
mpol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr, 0, &ilx); page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); mpol_cond_put(mpol);
if (page_allocated) @@ -654,7 +666,7 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, /* Ok, do the async read-ahead now */ page = __read_swap_cache_async( swp_entry(swp_type(entry), offset), - gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, &page_allocated); + gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, &page_allocated, false); if (!page) continue; if (page_allocated) { @@ -672,7 +684,7 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, skip: /* The page was likely read above, so no need for plugging here */ page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); return page; @@ -827,7 +839,7 @@ static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, pte_unmap(pte); pte = NULL; page = __read_swap_cache_async(entry, gfp_mask, mpol, ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (!page) continue; if (page_allocated) { @@ -847,7 +859,7 @@ static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, skip: /* The page was likely read above, so no need for plugging here */ page = __read_swap_cache_async(targ_entry, gfp_mask, mpol, targ_ilx, - &page_allocated); + &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); return page; diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index 030cc137138f..e441cbcab9a9 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/workqueue.h> +#include <linux/list_lru.h>
#include "swap.h" #include "internal.h" @@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ struct zswap_pool { struct work_struct shrink_work; struct hlist_node node; char tfm_name[CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME]; - struct list_head lru; - spinlock_t lru_lock; + struct list_lru list_lru; + struct mem_cgroup *next_shrink; };
/* @@ -291,15 +292,40 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void) zswap_pool_total_size = total; }
+/* should be called under RCU */ +static inline struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL; +} + +static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry)); +} + +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + struct zswap_pool *pool; + + /* lock out zswap pools list modification */ + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); + list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) { + if (pool->next_shrink == memcg) + pool->next_shrink = + mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true); + } + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); +} + /********************************* * zswap entry functions **********************************/ static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
-static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp) +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid) { struct zswap_entry *entry; - entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp); + entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid); if (!entry) return NULL; entry->refcount = 1; @@ -312,6 +338,61 @@ static void zswap_entry_cache_free(struct zswap_entry *entry) kmem_cache_free(zswap_entry_cache, entry); }
+/********************************* +* lru functions +**********************************/ +static void zswap_lru_add(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + /* + * Note that it is safe to use rcu_read_lock() here, even in the face of + * concurrent memcg offlining. Thanks to the memcg->kmemcg_id indirection + * used in list_lru lookup, only two scenarios are possible: + * + * 1. list_lru_add() is called before memcg->kmemcg_id is updated. The + * new entry will be reparented to memcg's parent's list_lru. + * 2. list_lru_add() is called after memcg->kmemcg_id is updated. The + * new entry will be added directly to memcg's parent's list_lru. + * + * Similar reasoning holds for list_lru_del() and list_lru_putback(). + */ + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + /* will always succeed */ + list_lru_add(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + +static void zswap_lru_del(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + /* will always succeed */ + list_lru_del(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + +static void zswap_lru_putback(struct list_lru *list_lru, + struct zswap_entry *entry) +{ + int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); + spinlock_t *lock = &list_lru->node[nid].lock; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + + rcu_read_lock(); + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); + spin_lock(lock); + /* we cannot use list_lru_add here, because it increments node's lru count */ + list_lru_putback(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + spin_unlock(lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); +} + /********************************* * rbtree functions **********************************/ @@ -396,9 +477,7 @@ static void zswap_free_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) if (!entry->length) atomic_dec(&zswap_same_filled_pages); else { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_del(&entry->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + zswap_lru_del(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle); zswap_pool_put(entry->pool); } @@ -632,21 +711,15 @@ static void zswap_invalidate_entry(struct zswap_tree *tree, zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); }
-static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) +static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *l, + spinlock_t *lock, void *arg) { - struct zswap_entry *entry; + struct zswap_entry *entry = container_of(item, struct zswap_entry, lru); struct zswap_tree *tree; pgoff_t swpoffset; - int ret; + enum lru_status ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY; + int writeback_result;
- /* Get an entry off the LRU */ - spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock); - if (list_empty(&pool->lru)) { - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); - return -EINVAL; - } - entry = list_last_entry(&pool->lru, struct zswap_entry, lru); - list_del_init(&entry->lru); /* * Once the lru lock is dropped, the entry might get freed. The * swpoffset is copied to the stack, and entry isn't deref'd again @@ -654,28 +727,32 @@ static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) */ swpoffset = swp_offset(entry->swpentry); tree = zswap_trees[swp_type(entry->swpentry)]; - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); + list_lru_isolate(l, item); + /* + * It's safe to drop the lock here because we return either + * LRU_REMOVED_RETRY or LRU_RETRY. + */ + spin_unlock(lock);
/* Check for invalidate() race */ spin_lock(&tree->lock); - if (entry != zswap_rb_search(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset)) { - ret = -EAGAIN; + if (entry != zswap_rb_search(&tree->rbroot, swpoffset)) goto unlock; - } + /* Hold a reference to prevent a free during writeback */ zswap_entry_get(entry); spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
- ret = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, tree); + writeback_result = zswap_writeback_entry(entry, tree);
spin_lock(&tree->lock); - if (ret) { - /* Writeback failed, put entry back on LRU */ - spin_lock(&pool->lru_lock); - list_move(&entry->lru, &pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&pool->lru_lock); + if (writeback_result) { + zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++; + zswap_lru_putback(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); + ret = LRU_RETRY; goto put_unlock; } + zswap_written_back_pages++;
/* * Writeback started successfully, the page now belongs to the @@ -689,27 +766,76 @@ static int zswap_reclaim_entry(struct zswap_pool *pool) zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); unlock: spin_unlock(&tree->lock); - return ret ? -EAGAIN : 0; + spin_lock(lock); + return ret; +} + +static int shrink_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + struct zswap_pool *pool; + int nid, shrunk = 0; + + /* + * Skip zombies because their LRUs are reparented and we would be + * reclaiming from the parent instead of the dead memcg. + */ + if (memcg && !mem_cgroup_online(memcg)) + return -ENOENT; + + pool = zswap_pool_current_get(); + if (!pool) + return -EINVAL; + + for_each_node_state(nid, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) { + unsigned long nr_to_walk = 1; + + shrunk += list_lru_walk_one(&pool->list_lru, nid, memcg, + &shrink_memcg_cb, NULL, &nr_to_walk); + } + zswap_pool_put(pool); + return shrunk ? 0 : -EAGAIN; }
static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w) { struct zswap_pool *pool = container_of(w, typeof(*pool), shrink_work); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; int ret, failures = 0;
+ /* global reclaim will select cgroup in a round-robin fashion. */ do { - ret = zswap_reclaim_entry(pool); - if (ret) { - zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++; - if (ret != -EAGAIN) - break; + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); + memcg = pool->next_shrink = + mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true); + + /* full round trip */ + if (!memcg) { + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); if (++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) break; + + goto resched; } + + /* + * Acquire an extra reference to the iterated memcg in case the + * original reference is dropped by the zswap offlining callback. + */ + css_get(&memcg->css); + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); + + ret = shrink_memcg(memcg); + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + + if (ret == -EINVAL) + break; + if (ret && ++failures == MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) + break; + +resched: cond_resched(); } while (!zswap_can_accept()); - zswap_pool_put(pool); }
static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) @@ -767,8 +893,7 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) */ kref_init(&pool->kref); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->lru); - spin_lock_init(&pool->lru_lock); + list_lru_init_memcg(&pool->list_lru, NULL); INIT_WORK(&pool->shrink_work, shrink_worker);
zswap_pool_debug("created", pool); @@ -834,6 +959,13 @@ static void zswap_pool_destroy(struct zswap_pool *pool)
cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE, &pool->node); free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx); + list_lru_destroy(&pool->list_lru); + + spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock); + mem_cgroup_put(pool->next_shrink); + pool->next_shrink = NULL; + spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock); + for (i = 0; i < ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS; i++) zpool_destroy_pool(pool->zpools[i]); kfree(pool); @@ -1081,7 +1213,7 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry, /* try to allocate swap cache page */ mpol = get_task_policy(current); page = __read_swap_cache_async(swpentry, GFP_KERNEL, mpol, - NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, &page_was_allocated); + NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, &page_was_allocated, true); if (!page) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto fail; @@ -1152,7 +1284,6 @@ static int zswap_writeback_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry, /* start writeback */ __swap_writepage(page, &wbc); put_page(page); - zswap_written_back_pages++;
return ret;
@@ -1209,6 +1340,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) struct scatterlist input, output; struct crypto_acomp_ctx *acomp_ctx; struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL; struct zswap_pool *pool; struct zpool *zpool; unsigned int dlen = PAGE_SIZE; @@ -1240,15 +1372,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock); - - /* - * XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a - * cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on - * local cgroup limits. - */ objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio); - if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) - goto reject; + if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) { + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg); + if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) { + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + goto reject; + } + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + }
/* reclaim space if needed */ if (zswap_is_full()) { @@ -1265,7 +1397,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) }
/* allocate entry */ - entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL); + entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, page_to_nid(page)); if (!entry) { zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++; goto reject; @@ -1292,6 +1424,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) if (!entry->pool) goto freepage;
+ if (objcg) { + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg); + if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &entry->pool->list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) { + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + goto put_pool; + } + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); + } + /* compress */ acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
@@ -1370,9 +1511,8 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry); } if (entry->length) { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_add(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru); + zswap_lru_add(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
@@ -1385,6 +1525,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
put_dstmem: mutex_unlock(acomp_ctx->mutex); +put_pool: zswap_pool_put(entry->pool); freepage: zswap_entry_cache_free(entry); @@ -1479,9 +1620,8 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio) zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, entry); folio_mark_dirty(folio); } else if (entry->length) { - spin_lock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); - list_move(&entry->lru, &entry->pool->lru); - spin_unlock(&entry->pool->lru_lock); + zswap_lru_del(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); + zswap_lru_add(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); } zswap_entry_put(tree, entry); spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Since zswap now writes back pages from memcg-specific LRUs, we now need a new stat to show writebacks count for each memcg.
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + mm/memcontrol.c | 1 + mm/vmstat.c | 1 + mm/zswap.c | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h index 8abfa1240040..3153359c3841 100644 --- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h +++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, #ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP ZSWPIN, ZSWPOUT, + ZSWP_WB, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86 DIRECT_MAP_LEVEL2_SPLIT, diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 2ef49b471a16..e43b5aba8efc 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ static const unsigned int memcg_vm_event_stat[] = { #if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) && defined(CONFIG_ZSWAP) ZSWPIN, ZSWPOUT, + ZSWP_WB, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE THP_FAULT_ALLOC, diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 359460deb377..5e5572f3b456 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1401,6 +1401,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { #ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP "zswpin", "zswpout", + "zswp_wb", #endif #ifdef CONFIG_X86 "direct_map_level2_splits", diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index 2654b0d214cc..03ee41a8b884 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -755,6 +755,9 @@ static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_o } zswap_written_back_pages++;
+ if (entry->objcg) + count_objcg_event(entry->objcg, ZSWP_WB); + /* * Writeback started successfully, the page now belongs to the * swapcache. Drop the entry from zswap - unless invalidate already
From: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
The memcg-zswap self test is updated to adjust to the behavior change implemented by commit 87730b165089 ("zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware"), where zswap performs writeback for specific memcg.
Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 74 ++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c index 49def87a909b..753a3b9de1ad 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ static int get_zswap_stored_pages(size_t *value) return read_int("/sys/kernel/debug/zswap/stored_pages", value); }
-static int get_zswap_written_back_pages(size_t *value) +static int get_cg_wb_count(const char *cg) { - return read_int("/sys/kernel/debug/zswap/written_back_pages", value); + return cg_read_key_long(cg, "memory.stat", "zswp_wb"); }
static int allocate_bytes(const char *cgroup, void *arg) @@ -68,45 +68,71 @@ static int allocate_bytes(const char *cgroup, void *arg) return 0; }
+static char *setup_test_group_1M(const char *root, const char *name) +{ + char *group_name = cg_name(root, name); + + if (!group_name) + return NULL; + if (cg_create(group_name)) + goto fail; + if (cg_write(group_name, "memory.max", "1M")) { + cg_destroy(group_name); + goto fail; + } + return group_name; +fail: + free(group_name); + return NULL; +} + /* * When trying to store a memcg page in zswap, if the memcg hits its memory - * limit in zswap, writeback should not be triggered. - * - * This was fixed with commit 0bdf0efa180a("zswap: do not shrink if cgroup may - * not zswap"). Needs to be revised when a per memcg writeback mechanism is - * implemented. + * limit in zswap, writeback should affect only the zswapped pages of that + * memcg. */ static int test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink(const char *root) { - size_t written_back_before, written_back_after; int ret = KSFT_FAIL; - char *test_group; + size_t control_allocation_size = MB(10); + char *control_allocation, *wb_group = NULL, *control_group = NULL;
/* Set up */ - test_group = cg_name(root, "no_shrink_test"); - if (!test_group) - goto out; - if (cg_create(test_group)) + wb_group = setup_test_group_1M(root, "per_memcg_wb_test1"); + if (!wb_group) + return KSFT_FAIL; + if (cg_write(wb_group, "memory.zswap.max", "10K")) goto out; - if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "1M")) + control_group = setup_test_group_1M(root, "per_memcg_wb_test2"); + if (!control_group) goto out; - if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.zswap.max", "10K")) + + /* Push some test_group2 memory into zswap */ + if (cg_enter_current(control_group)) goto out; - if (get_zswap_written_back_pages(&written_back_before)) + control_allocation = malloc(control_allocation_size); + for (int i = 0; i < control_allocation_size; i += 4095) + control_allocation[i] = 'a'; + if (cg_read_key_long(control_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped") < 1) goto out;
- /* Allocate 10x memory.max to push memory into zswap */ - if (cg_run(test_group, allocate_bytes, (void *)MB(10))) + /* Allocate 10x memory.max to push wb_group memory into zswap and trigger wb */ + if (cg_run(wb_group, allocate_bytes, (void *)MB(10))) goto out;
- /* Verify that no writeback happened because of the memcg allocation */ - if (get_zswap_written_back_pages(&written_back_after)) - goto out; - if (written_back_after == written_back_before) + /* Verify that only zswapped memory from gwb_group has been written back */ + if (get_cg_wb_count(wb_group) > 0 && get_cg_wb_count(control_group) == 0) ret = KSFT_PASS; out: - cg_destroy(test_group); - free(test_group); + cg_enter_current(root); + if (control_group) { + cg_destroy(control_group); + free(control_group); + } + cg_destroy(wb_group); + free(wb_group); + if (control_allocation) + free(control_allocation); return ret; }
Currently, we only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).
This patch implements a memcg- and NUMA-aware shrinker for zswap, that is initiated when there is memory pressure. The shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.
Furthermore, to make it more robust for many workloads and prevent overshrinking (i.e evicting warm pages that might be refaulted into memory), we build in the following heuristics:
* Estimate the number of warm pages residing in zswap, and attempt to protect this region of the zswap LRU. * Scale the number of freeable objects by an estimate of the memory saving factor. The better zswap compresses the data, the fewer pages we will evict to swap (as we will otherwise incur IO for relatively small memory saving). * During reclaim, if the shrinker encounters a page that is also being brought into memory, the shrinker will cautiously terminate its shrinking action, as this is a sign that it is touching the warmer region of the zswap LRU.
As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 7 + include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 + include/linux/zswap.h | 25 +++- mm/mmzone.c | 1 + mm/swap_state.c | 2 + mm/zswap.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst index 45b98390e938..522ae22ccb84 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ attribute, e. g.::
Setting this parameter to 100 will disable the hysteresis.
+When there is a sizable amount of cold memory residing in the zswap pool, it +can be advantageous to proactively write these cold pages to swap and reclaim +the memory for other use cases. By default, the zswap shrinker is disabled. +User can enable it as follows: + + echo Y > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/shrinker_enabled + A debugfs interface is provided for various statistic about pool size, number of pages stored, same-value filled pages and various counters for the reasons pages are rejected. diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 12f31633be05..633afdb96c40 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/mm_types.h> #include <linux/page-flags.h> #include <linux/local_lock.h> +#include <linux/zswap.h> #include <asm/page.h>
/* Free memory management - zoned buddy allocator. */ @@ -637,6 +638,7 @@ struct lruvec { #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG struct pglist_data *pgdat; #endif + struct zswap_lruvec_state zswap_lruvec_state; };
/* Isolate for asynchronous migration */ diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h index e571e393669b..cbd373ba88d2 100644 --- a/include/linux/zswap.h +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h @@ -5,20 +5,40 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/mm_types.h>
+struct lruvec; + extern u64 zswap_pool_total_size; extern atomic_t zswap_stored_pages;
#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
+struct zswap_lruvec_state { + /* + * Number of pages in zswap that should be protected from the shrinker. + * This number is an estimate of the following counts: + * + * a) Recent page faults. + * b) Recent insertion to the zswap LRU. This includes new zswap stores, + * as well as recent zswap LRU rotations. + * + * These pages are likely to be warm, and might incur IO if the are written + * to swap. + */ + atomic_long_t nr_zswap_protected; +}; + bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio); bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio); void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset); void zswap_swapon(int type); void zswap_swapoff(int type); void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); - +void zswap_lruvec_state_init(struct lruvec *lruvec); +void zswap_lruvec_swapin(struct page *page); #else
+struct zswap_lruvec_state {}; + static inline bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) { return false; @@ -33,7 +53,8 @@ static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {} static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {} static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {} static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {} - +static inline void zswap_lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec) {} +static inline void zswap_lruvec_swapin(struct page *page) {} #endif
#endif /* _LINUX_ZSWAP_H */ diff --git a/mm/mmzone.c b/mm/mmzone.c index b594d3f268fe..c01896eca736 100644 --- a/mm/mmzone.c +++ b/mm/mmzone.c @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ void lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec)
memset(lruvec, 0, sizeof(struct lruvec)); spin_lock_init(&lruvec->lru_lock); + zswap_lruvec_state_init(lruvec);
for_each_lru(lru) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lruvec->lists[lru]); diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 6c84236382f3..94ed2d508db0 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -687,6 +687,7 @@ struct page *swap_cluster_readahead(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); + zswap_lruvec_swapin(page); return page; }
@@ -862,6 +863,7 @@ static struct page *swap_vma_readahead(swp_entry_t targ_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, &page_allocated, false); if (unlikely(page_allocated)) swap_readpage(page, false, NULL); + zswap_lruvec_swapin(page); return page; }
diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index 03ee41a8b884..260e01180ee0 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ module_param_named(exclusive_loads, zswap_exclusive_loads_enabled, bool, 0644); /* Number of zpools in zswap_pool (empirically determined for scalability) */ #define ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS 32
+/* Enable/disable memory pressure-based shrinker. */ +static bool zswap_shrinker_enabled; +module_param_named(shrinker_enabled, zswap_shrinker_enabled, bool, 0644); + /********************************* * data structures **********************************/ @@ -176,6 +180,8 @@ struct zswap_pool { struct list_lru list_lru; spinlock_t next_shrink_lock; struct mem_cgroup *next_shrink; + struct shrinker *shrinker; + atomic_t nr_stored; };
/* @@ -274,17 +280,26 @@ static bool zswap_can_accept(void) DIV_ROUND_UP(zswap_pool_total_size, PAGE_SIZE); }
+static u64 get_zswap_pool_size(struct zswap_pool *pool) +{ + u64 pool_size = 0; + int i; + + for (i = 0; i < ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS; i++) + pool_size += zpool_get_total_size(pool->zpools[i]); + + return pool_size; +} + static void zswap_update_total_size(void) { struct zswap_pool *pool; u64 total = 0; - int i;
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(pool, &zswap_pools, list) - for (i = 0; i < ZSWAP_NR_ZPOOLS; i++) - total += zpool_get_total_size(pool->zpools[i]); + total += get_zswap_pool_size(pool);
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -339,13 +354,34 @@ static void zswap_entry_cache_free(struct zswap_entry *entry) kmem_cache_free(zswap_entry_cache, entry); }
+/********************************* +* zswap lruvec functions +**********************************/ +void zswap_lruvec_state_init(struct lruvec *lruvec) +{ + atomic_long_set(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected, 0); +} + +void zswap_lruvec_swapin(struct page *page) +{ + struct lruvec *lruvec; + + if (page) { + lruvec = folio_lruvec(page_folio(page)); + atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected); + } +} + /********************************* * lru functions **********************************/ static void zswap_lru_add(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) { + atomic_long_t *nr_zswap_protected; + unsigned long lru_size, old, new; int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + struct lruvec *lruvec;
/* * Note that it is safe to use rcu_read_lock() here, even in the face of @@ -363,6 +399,19 @@ static void zswap_lru_add(struct list_lru *list_lru, struct zswap_entry *entry) memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); /* will always succeed */ list_lru_add(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); + + /* Update the protection area */ + lru_size = list_lru_count_one(list_lru, nid, memcg); + lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(nid)); + nr_zswap_protected = &lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected; + old = atomic_long_inc_return(nr_zswap_protected); + /* + * Decay to avoid overflow and adapt to changing workloads. + * This is based on LRU reclaim cost decaying heuristics. + */ + do { + new = old > lru_size / 4 ? old / 2 : old; + } while (!atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(nr_zswap_protected, &old, new)); rcu_read_unlock(); }
@@ -384,6 +433,7 @@ static void zswap_lru_putback(struct list_lru *list_lru, int nid = entry_to_nid(entry); spinlock_t *lock = &list_lru->node[nid].lock; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + struct lruvec *lruvec;
rcu_read_lock(); memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(entry); @@ -391,6 +441,10 @@ static void zswap_lru_putback(struct list_lru *list_lru, /* we cannot use list_lru_add here, because it increments node's lru count */ list_lru_putback(list_lru, &entry->lru, nid, memcg); spin_unlock(lock); + + lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(entry_to_nid(entry))); + /* increment the protection area to account for the LRU rotation. */ + atomic_long_inc(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected); rcu_read_unlock(); }
@@ -480,6 +534,7 @@ static void zswap_free_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry) else { zswap_lru_del(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); zpool_free(zswap_find_zpool(entry), entry->handle); + atomic_dec(&entry->pool->nr_stored); zswap_pool_put(entry->pool); } zswap_entry_cache_free(entry); @@ -521,6 +576,95 @@ static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_find_get(struct rb_root *root, return entry; }
+/********************************* +* shrinker functions +**********************************/ +static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *l, + spinlock_t *lock, void *arg); + +static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_scan(struct shrinker *shrinker, + struct shrink_control *sc) +{ + struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(sc->memcg, NODE_DATA(sc->nid)); + unsigned long shrink_ret, nr_protected, lru_size; + struct zswap_pool *pool = shrinker->private_data; + bool encountered_page_in_swapcache = false; + + nr_protected = + atomic_long_read(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected); + lru_size = list_lru_shrink_count(&pool->list_lru, sc); + + /* + * Abort if the shrinker is disabled or if we are shrinking into the + * protected region. + */ + if (!zswap_shrinker_enabled || nr_protected >= lru_size - sc->nr_to_scan) { + sc->nr_scanned = 0; + return SHRINK_STOP; + } + + shrink_ret = list_lru_shrink_walk(&pool->list_lru, sc, &shrink_memcg_cb, + &encountered_page_in_swapcache); + + if (encountered_page_in_swapcache) + return SHRINK_STOP; + + return shrink_ret ? shrink_ret : SHRINK_STOP; +} + +static unsigned long zswap_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker, + struct shrink_control *sc) +{ + struct zswap_pool *pool = shrinker->private_data; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = sc->memcg; + struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(sc->nid)); + unsigned long nr_backing, nr_stored, nr_freeable, nr_protected; + +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM + cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); + nr_backing = memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_B) >> PAGE_SHIFT; + nr_stored = memcg_page_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED); +#else + /* use pool stats instead of memcg stats */ + nr_backing = get_zswap_pool_size(pool) >> PAGE_SHIFT; + nr_stored = atomic_read(&pool->nr_stored); +#endif + + if (!zswap_shrinker_enabled || !nr_stored) + return 0; + + nr_protected = + atomic_long_read(&lruvec->zswap_lruvec_state.nr_zswap_protected); + nr_freeable = list_lru_shrink_count(&pool->list_lru, sc); + /* + * Subtract the lru size by an estimate of the number of pages + * that should be protected. + */ + nr_freeable = nr_freeable > nr_protected ? nr_freeable - nr_protected : 0; + + /* + * Scale the number of freeable pages by the memory saving factor. + * This ensures that the better zswap compresses memory, the fewer + * pages we will evict to swap (as it will otherwise incur IO for + * relatively small memory saving). + */ + return mult_frac(nr_freeable, nr_backing, nr_stored); +} + +static void zswap_alloc_shrinker(struct zswap_pool *pool) +{ + pool->shrinker = + shrinker_alloc(SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE | SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE, "mm-zswap"); + if (!pool->shrinker) + return; + + pool->shrinker->private_data = pool; + pool->shrinker->scan_objects = zswap_shrinker_scan; + pool->shrinker->count_objects = zswap_shrinker_count; + pool->shrinker->batch = 0; + pool->shrinker->seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS; +} + /********************************* * per-cpu code **********************************/ @@ -716,6 +860,7 @@ static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_o spinlock_t *lock, void *arg) { struct zswap_entry *entry = container_of(item, struct zswap_entry, lru); + bool *encountered_page_in_swapcache = (bool *)arg; struct zswap_tree *tree; pgoff_t swpoffset; enum lru_status ret = LRU_REMOVED_RETRY; @@ -751,6 +896,17 @@ static enum lru_status shrink_memcg_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_o zswap_reject_reclaim_fail++; zswap_lru_putback(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); ret = LRU_RETRY; + + /* + * Encountering a page already in swap cache is a sign that we are shrinking + * into the warmer region. We should terminate shrinking (if we're in the dynamic + * shrinker context). + */ + if (writeback_result == -EEXIST && encountered_page_in_swapcache) { + ret = LRU_SKIP; + *encountered_page_in_swapcache = true; + } + goto put_unlock; } zswap_written_back_pages++; @@ -890,6 +1046,11 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) &pool->node); if (ret) goto error; + + zswap_alloc_shrinker(pool); + if (!pool->shrinker) + goto error; + pr_debug("using %s compressor\n", pool->tfm_name);
/* being the current pool takes 1 ref; this func expects the @@ -897,14 +1058,20 @@ static struct zswap_pool *zswap_pool_create(char *type, char *compressor) */ kref_init(&pool->kref); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->list); - list_lru_init_memcg(&pool->list_lru, NULL); + if (list_lru_init_memcg(&pool->list_lru, pool->shrinker)) + goto lru_fail; + shrinker_register(pool->shrinker); INIT_WORK(&pool->shrink_work, shrink_worker); + atomic_set(&pool->nr_stored, 0);
zswap_pool_debug("created", pool); spin_lock_init(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
return pool;
+lru_fail: + list_lru_destroy(&pool->list_lru); + shrinker_free(pool->shrinker); error: if (pool->acomp_ctx) free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx); @@ -962,6 +1129,7 @@ static void zswap_pool_destroy(struct zswap_pool *pool)
zswap_pool_debug("destroying", pool);
+ shrinker_free(pool->shrinker); cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_MM_ZSWP_POOL_PREPARE, &pool->node); free_percpu(pool->acomp_ctx); list_lru_destroy(&pool->list_lru); @@ -1511,6 +1679,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio) if (entry->length) { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->lru); zswap_lru_add(&entry->pool->list_lru, entry); + atomic_inc(&entry->pool->nr_stored); } spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
Hi Nhat,
Sorry for being late to the party. I want to take a look at your patches series. However I wasn't able to "git am" your patches series cleanly on current mm-stable, mm-unstable or linux tip.
$ git am patches/v5_20231106_nphamcs_workload_specific_and_memory_pressure_driven_zswap_writeback.mbx Applying: list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection Applying: memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness Applying: zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware (fix) error: patch failed: mm/zswap.c:174 error: mm/zswap.c: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0003 zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware (fix)
What is the base of your patches? A git hash or a branch I can pull from would be nice.
Thanks
Chris
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Changelog: v5:
- Replace reference getting with an rcu_read_lock() section for zswap lru modifications (suggested by Yosry)
- Add a new prep patch that allows mem_cgroup_iter() to return online cgroup.
- Add a callback that updates pool->next_shrink when the cgroup is offlined (suggested by Yosry Ahmed, Johannes Weiner)
v4:
- Rename list_lru_add to list_lru_add_obj and __list_lru_add to list_lru_add (patch 1) (suggested by Johannes Weiner and Yosry Ahmed)
- Some cleanups on the memcg aware LRU patch (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Use event interface for the new per-cgroup writeback counters. (patch 3) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Abstract zswap's lruvec states and handling into zswap_lruvec_state (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
v3:
- Add a patch to export per-cgroup zswap writeback counters
- Add a patch to update zswap's kselftest
- Separate the new list_lru functions into its own prep patch
- Do not start from the top of the hierarchy when encounter a memcg that is not online for the global limit zswap writeback (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Do not remove the swap entry from list_lru in __read_swapcache_async() (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Removed a redundant zswap pool getting (patch 2) (reported by Ryan Roberts)
- Use atomic for the nr_zswap_protected (instead of lruvec's lock) (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Remove the per-cgroup zswap shrinker knob (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
v2:
- Fix loongarch compiler errors
- Use pool stats instead of memcg stats when !CONFIG_MEMCG_KEM
There are currently several issues with zswap writeback:
There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in the zswap pool.
We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).
This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure. The new shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.
As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.
Domenico Cerasuolo (3): zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware mm: memcg: add per-memcg zswap writeback stat selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest
Nhat Pham (3): list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 7 + drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 5 +- fs/dcache.c | 8 +- fs/gfs2/quota.c | 6 +- fs/inode.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 2 +- include/linux/list_lru.h | 46 ++- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 9 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 + include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + include/linux/zswap.h | 27 +- mm/list_lru.c | 48 ++- mm/memcontrol.c | 20 +- mm/mmzone.c | 1 + mm/shrinker.c | 4 +- mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 26 +- mm/vmscan.c | 26 +- mm/vmstat.c | 1 + mm/workingset.c | 4 +- mm/zswap.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++--- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 74 ++-- 26 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)
-- 2.34.1
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 11:46 AM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
Hi Nhat,
Sorry for being late to the party. I want to take a look at your patches series. However I wasn't able to "git am" your patches series cleanly on current mm-stable, mm-unstable or linux tip.
$ git am patches/v5_20231106_nphamcs_workload_specific_and_memory_pressure_driven_zswap_writeback.mbx Applying: list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection Applying: memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness Applying: zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware (fix) error: patch failed: mm/zswap.c:174 error: mm/zswap.c: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0003 zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware (fix)
Ah that was meant to be a fixlet - so that on top of the original "zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware" patch. The intention was to eventually squash it...
But this is getting a bit annoyingly confusing, I admit. I just rebased to mm-unstable + squashed it all again, then sent one single replacement patch:
[PATCH v5 3/6 REPLACE] zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware
Let me know if this still fails to apply. If not, I'll send the whole thing again as v6! My sincerest apologies for the troubles and confusion :(
What is the base of your patches? A git hash or a branch I can pull from would be nice.
Thanks
Chris
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Changelog: v5:
- Replace reference getting with an rcu_read_lock() section for zswap lru modifications (suggested by Yosry)
- Add a new prep patch that allows mem_cgroup_iter() to return online cgroup.
- Add a callback that updates pool->next_shrink when the cgroup is offlined (suggested by Yosry Ahmed, Johannes Weiner)
v4:
- Rename list_lru_add to list_lru_add_obj and __list_lru_add to list_lru_add (patch 1) (suggested by Johannes Weiner and Yosry Ahmed)
- Some cleanups on the memcg aware LRU patch (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Use event interface for the new per-cgroup writeback counters. (patch 3) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Abstract zswap's lruvec states and handling into zswap_lruvec_state (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
v3:
- Add a patch to export per-cgroup zswap writeback counters
- Add a patch to update zswap's kselftest
- Separate the new list_lru functions into its own prep patch
- Do not start from the top of the hierarchy when encounter a memcg that is not online for the global limit zswap writeback (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Do not remove the swap entry from list_lru in __read_swapcache_async() (patch 2) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Removed a redundant zswap pool getting (patch 2) (reported by Ryan Roberts)
- Use atomic for the nr_zswap_protected (instead of lruvec's lock) (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
- Remove the per-cgroup zswap shrinker knob (patch 5) (suggested by Yosry Ahmed)
v2:
- Fix loongarch compiler errors
- Use pool stats instead of memcg stats when !CONFIG_MEMCG_KEM
There are currently several issues with zswap writeback:
There is only a single global LRU for zswap, making it impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg under memory pressure cannot determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@gmail.com/T/#u
But this solution leaves a lot to be desired, as we still do not have an avenue for an memcg to free up its own memory locked up in the zswap pool.
We only shrink the zswap pool when the user-defined limit is hit. This means that if we set the limit too high, cold data that are unlikely to be used again will reside in the pool, wasting precious memory. It is hard to predict how much zswap space will be needed ahead of time, as this depends on the workload (specifically, on factors such as memory access patterns and compressibility of the memory pages).
This patch series solves these issues by separating the global zswap LRU into per-memcg and per-NUMA LRUs, and performs workload-specific (i.e memcg- and NUMA-aware) zswap writeback under memory pressure. The new shrinker does not have any parameter that must be tuned by the user, and can be opted in or out on a per-memcg basis.
As a proof of concept, we ran the following synthetic benchmark: build the linux kernel in a memory-limited cgroup, and allocate some cold data in tmpfs to see if the shrinker could write them out and improved the overall performance. Depending on the amount of cold data generated, we observe from 14% to 35% reduction in kernel CPU time used in the kernel builds.
Domenico Cerasuolo (3): zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware mm: memcg: add per-memcg zswap writeback stat selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest
Nhat Pham (3): list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 7 + drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 5 +- fs/dcache.c | 8 +- fs/gfs2/quota.c | 6 +- fs/inode.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs42xattr.c | 8 +- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c | 2 +- include/linux/list_lru.h | 46 ++- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 9 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 + include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + include/linux/zswap.h | 27 +- mm/list_lru.c | 48 ++- mm/memcontrol.c | 20 +- mm/mmzone.c | 1 + mm/shrinker.c | 4 +- mm/swap.h | 3 +- mm/swap_state.c | 26 +- mm/vmscan.c | 26 +- mm/vmstat.c | 1 + mm/workingset.c | 4 +- mm/zswap.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++--- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 74 ++-- 26 files changed, 625 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)
-- 2.34.1
Hi Nhat,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:15 PM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Ah that was meant to be a fixlet - so that on top of the original "zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware" patch. The intention was to eventually squash it...
But this is getting a bit annoyingly confusing, I admit. I just rebased to mm-unstable + squashed it all again, then sent one single replacement patch:
[PATCH v5 3/6 REPLACE] zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware
Thank you for the quick response.
Yes, I am able to download your replacement version of patch 3. Just FYI, I am using "git mailsplit" to split up the mbox into 6 separate patch files. On mm-unstable, I am able to apply your replacement patch 3 cleanly. I also need some help on the patch 0005, it does not apply cleanly either.
$ git mailsplit -ozswap-pool-lru v5_20231106_nphamcs_workload_specific_and_memory_pressure_driven_zswap_writeback.mbx $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0001 Applying: list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0002 Applying: memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/3.replace Applying: zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0004 Applying: mm: memcg: add per-memcg zswap writeback stat $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0005 Applying: selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest error: patch failed: tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c:50 error: tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0001 selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
Let me know if this still fails to apply. If not, I'll send the whole thing again as v6! My sincerest apologies for the troubles and confusion :(
No problem at all. Thanks for your help on patch 3.
Chris
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:12 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
Hi Nhat,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:15 PM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Ah that was meant to be a fixlet - so that on top of the original "zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware" patch. The intention was to eventually squash it...
But this is getting a bit annoyingly confusing, I admit. I just rebased to mm-unstable + squashed it all again, then sent one single replacement patch:
[PATCH v5 3/6 REPLACE] zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware
Thank you for the quick response.
Yes, I am able to download your replacement version of patch 3. Just FYI, I am using "git mailsplit" to split up the mbox into 6 separate patch files. On mm-unstable, I am able to apply your replacement patch 3 cleanly. I also need some help on the patch 0005, it does not apply cleanly either.
$ git mailsplit -ozswap-pool-lru v5_20231106_nphamcs_workload_specific_and_memory_pressure_driven_zswap_writeback.mbx $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0001 Applying: list_lru: allows explicit memcg and NUMA node selection $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0002 Applying: memcontrol: allows mem_cgroup_iter() to check for onlineness $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/3.replace Applying: zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0004 Applying: mm: memcg: add per-memcg zswap writeback stat $ git am patches/zswap-pool-lru/0005 Applying: selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest error: patch failed: tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c:50 error: tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0001 selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
Let me know if this still fails to apply. If not, I'll send the whole thing again as v6! My sincerest apologies for the troubles and confusion :(
No problem at all. Thanks for your help on patch 3.
Chris
Hmm my guess is that I probably sent this out based on an outdated mm-unstable. There has since been a new zswap selftest merged to mm-unstable (written by no other than myself - oh the irony), so maybe it does not apply cleanly anymore with git am.
I was, however, able to apply the patch with the -3 argument, i.e:
git am -3 ../mbox/0005
This will fall back to the 3-way merge if direct application fails. And, FWIW, the kselftest still seems to build.
I think you'll have to do the same with the 6th patch as well. My guess is that on my latest rebase attempt, this was done silent and automatically, so I did not notice this.
Let me know if this works. Worst case scenario, I can still rebase 'n resend the patch series :)
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:28 PM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm my guess is that I probably sent this out based on an outdated mm-unstable. There has since been a new zswap selftest merged to mm-unstable (written by no other than myself - oh the irony), so maybe it does not apply cleanly anymore with git am.
$ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0005 Applying: selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... M tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge... Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c $ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0006 Applying: zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure error: sha1 information is lacking or useless (mm/zswap.c). error: could not build fake ancestor Patch failed at 0001 zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
I was able to resolve the conflict on patch 6 by hand though. So I am good now.
Thanks
Chris
Hi Nhat,
I want want to share the high level feedback we discussed here in the mailing list as well.
It is my observation that each memcg LRU list can't compare the page time order with other memcg. It works great when the leaf level memcg hits the memory limit and you want to reclaim from that memcg. It works less well on the global memory pressure you need to reclaim from all memcg. You kind of have to scan each all child memcg to find out the best page to shrink from. It is less effective to get to the most desirable page quickly.
This can benefit from a design similar to MGLRU. This idea is suggested by Yu Zhao, credit goes to him not me. In other words, the current patch is similar to the memcg page list pre MGLRU world. We can have a MRLRU like per memcg zswap shrink list.
Chris
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 6:10 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:28 PM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm my guess is that I probably sent this out based on an outdated mm-unstable. There has since been a new zswap selftest merged to mm-unstable (written by no other than myself - oh the irony), so maybe it does not apply cleanly anymore with git am.
$ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0005 Applying: selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... M tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge... Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c $ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0006 Applying: zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure error: sha1 information is lacking or useless (mm/zswap.c). error: could not build fake ancestor Patch failed at 0001 zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
I was able to resolve the conflict on patch 6 by hand though. So I am good now.
Thanks
Chris
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:57 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
Hi Nhat,
I want want to share the high level feedback we discussed here in the mailing list as well.
It is my observation that each memcg LRU list can't compare the page time order with other memcg. It works great when the leaf level memcg hits the memory limit and you want to reclaim from that memcg. It works less well on the global memory pressure you need to reclaim from all memcg. You kind of have to scan each all child memcg to find out the best page to shrink from. It is less effective to get to the most desirable page quickly.
This can benefit from a design similar to MGLRU. This idea is suggested by Yu Zhao, credit goes to him not me. In other words, the current patch is similar to the memcg page list pre MGLRU world. We can have a MRLRU like per memcg zswap shrink list.
I was gonna summarize the points myself :P But thanks for doing this. It's your idea so you're more qualified to explain this anyway ;)
I absolutely agree that having a generation-aware cgroup-aware NUMA-aware LRU is the future way to go. Currently, IIUC, the reclaim logic selects cgroups in a round-robin-ish manner. It's "fair" in this perspective, but I also think it's not ideal. As we have discussed, the current list_lru infrastructure only take into account intra-cgroup relative recency, not inter-cgroup relative recency. The recently proposed time-based zswap reclaim mechanism will provide us with a source of information, but the overhead of using this might be too high - and it's very zswap-specific.
Maybe after this, we should improve zswap reclaim (and perhaps all list_lru users) by adding generations to list_lru then take generations into account in the vmscan code. This patch series could be merged as-is, and once we make list_lru generation-aware, zswap shrinker will automagically be improved (along with all other list_lru/shrinker users).
I don't know enough about the current design of MGLRU to comment too much further, but let me know if this makes sense, and if you have objections/other ideas.
And if you have other documentations for MGLRU than its code, could you please let me know? I'm struggling to find more details about this.
Chris
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 6:10 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:28 PM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm my guess is that I probably sent this out based on an outdated mm-unstable. There has since been a new zswap selftest merged to mm-unstable (written by no other than myself - oh the irony), so maybe it does not apply cleanly anymore with git am.
$ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0005 Applying: selftests: cgroup: update per-memcg zswap writeback selftest Using index info to reconstruct a base tree... M tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge... Auto-merging tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c $ git am -3 patches/zswap-pool-lru/0006 Applying: zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure error: sha1 information is lacking or useless (mm/zswap.c). error: could not build fake ancestor Patch failed at 0001 zswap: shrinks zswap pool based on memory pressure hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue". If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead. To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
I was able to resolve the conflict on patch 6 by hand though. So I am good now.
Thanks
Chris
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:23 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:57 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
Hi Nhat,
I want want to share the high level feedback we discussed here in the mailing list as well.
It is my observation that each memcg LRU list can't compare the page time order with other memcg. It works great when the leaf level memcg hits the memory limit and you want to reclaim from that memcg. It works less well on the global memory pressure you need to reclaim from all memcg. You kind of have to scan each all child memcg to find out the best page to shrink from. It is less effective to get to the most desirable page quickly.
This can benefit from a design similar to MGLRU. This idea is suggested by Yu Zhao, credit goes to him not me. In other words, the current patch is similar to the memcg page list pre MGLRU world. We can have a MRLRU like per memcg zswap shrink list.
I was gonna summarize the points myself :P But thanks for doing this. It's your idea so you're more qualified to explain this anyway ;)
I absolutely agree that having a generation-aware cgroup-aware NUMA-aware LRU is the future way to go. Currently, IIUC, the reclaim logic selects cgroups in a round-robin-ish manner. It's "fair" in this perspective, but I also think it's not ideal. As we have discussed, the current list_lru infrastructure only take into account intra-cgroup relative recency, not inter-cgroup relative recency. The recently proposed time-based zswap reclaim mechanism will provide us with a source of information, but the overhead of using this might be too high - and it's very zswap-specific.
Maybe after this, we should improve zswap reclaim (and perhaps all list_lru users) by adding generations to list_lru then take generations into account in the vmscan code. This patch series could be merged as-is, and once we make list_lru generation-aware, zswap shrinker will automagically be improved (along with all other list_lru/shrinker users).
I don't know enough about the current design of MGLRU to comment too much further, but let me know if this makes sense, and if you have objections/other ideas.
And if you have other documentations for MGLRU than its code, could you please let me know? I'm struggling to find more details about this.
This could be a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HvJfN21H9Y
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 8:23 AM Nhat Pham nphamcs@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:57 PM Chris Li chrisl@kernel.org wrote:
Hi Nhat,
I want want to share the high level feedback we discussed here in the mailing list as well.
It is my observation that each memcg LRU list can't compare the page time order with other memcg. It works great when the leaf level memcg hits the memory limit and you want to reclaim from that memcg. It works less well on the global memory pressure you need to reclaim from all memcg. You kind of have to scan each all child memcg to find out the best page to shrink from. It is less effective to get to the most desirable page quickly.
This can benefit from a design similar to MGLRU. This idea is suggested by Yu Zhao, credit goes to him not me. In other words, the current patch is similar to the memcg page list pre MGLRU world. We can have a MRLRU like per memcg zswap shrink list.
I was gonna summarize the points myself :P But thanks for doing this. It's your idea so you're more qualified to explain this anyway ;)
The MGLRU like shrinker was Zhao Yu's idea. I just observe the problem.
I absolutely agree that having a generation-aware cgroup-aware NUMA-aware LRU is the future way to go. Currently, IIUC, the reclaim logic selects cgroups in a round-robin-ish manner. It's "fair" in this perspective, but I also think it's not ideal. As we have discussed, the current list_lru infrastructure only take into account intra-cgroup relative recency, not inter-cgroup relative recency. The recently proposed time-based zswap reclaim mechanism will provide us with a source of information, but the overhead of using this might be too high - and it's very zswap-specific.
I don't mind it is zswap-specific, as long as it is effective. The overhead has two folds: 1) memory overhead on storing timestamps on per compressed page. 2) cpu overhead for reading timestamps. Using MGLRU likely have advantage over time stamps on both memory and cpu. The generation can use fewer bits and doesn't require reading time on every page.
Maybe after this, we should improve zswap reclaim (and perhaps all list_lru users) by adding generations to list_lru then take generations into account in the vmscan code. This patch series could be merged
One high level idea is that we can get the page generation in the MGLRU before it gets into zswap. Just retain the generation into the zpool LRU somehow.
as-is, and once we make list_lru generation-aware, zswap shrinker will automagically be improved (along with all other list_lru/shrinker users).
I don't think it will automatically improve, you will need to rewrite a lot of code in the shrinker as well to best use MGLRU zpool.
I don't know enough about the current design of MGLRU to comment too much further, but let me know if this makes sense, and if you have objections/other ideas.
Taking the step by step approach is fine by me as long as we are making steady progress towards the better end goal.
And if you have other documentations for MGLRU than its code, could you please let me know? I'm struggling to find more details about this.
I would need to learn MGLRU myself. We can share and compare notes when we get to it.
Chris
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