Re: [PATCH] Cgroup: Fix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list

[Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 12:19 +0900, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:

> 
> When I added batching, I didn't touch page-reclaim path because it delays
> res_counter_uncharge() and make more threads run into page reclaim.
> But, from above score, bactching seems required.
> 
> And because of current design of per-zone-per-memcg-LRU, batching
> works very very well....all lru pages shrink_page_list() scans are on
> the same memcg.
> 
> BTW, it's better to show 'how much improved' in patch description..

I didn't put the specific improvement in patch description as the
performance change is specific to my machine and benchmark and
improvement could be variable for others.  However, I did include the
specific number in the body of my message.  Hope that is enough.
 

> 
> 
> > ---
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
> > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > index 33dc256..aac5672 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -779,6 +779,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> >
> >   	cond_resched();
> >
> > +	mem_cgroup_uncharge_start();
> >   	while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
> >   		enum page_references references;
> >   		struct address_space *mapping;
> > @@ -1026,6 +1027,7 @@ keep_lumpy:
> >
> >   	list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list);
> >   	count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate);
> > +	mem_cgroup_uncharge_end();
> 
> I guess placing mem_cgroup_uncharge_end() just after the loop may be better looking.

I initially though of doing that.  I later pushed the statement down to
after list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list) as that's when the page reclaim
is actually completed.  It probably doesn't matter one way or the other.
I can move it to just after the loop if people think that's better.

Thanks for reviewing the change.

Tim

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