[PATCH] mm: slub: replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched in kmem_cache_shrink

[PATCH] mm: slub: replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched in kmem_cache_shrink

[Vladimir Davydov]

When we call __kmem_cache_shrink on memory cgroup removal, we need to
synchronize kmem_cache->cpu_partial update with put_cpu_partial that
might be running on other cpus. Currently, we achieve that by using
kick_all_cpus_sync, which works as a system wide memory barrier. Though
fast it is, this method has a flow - it issues a lot of IPIs, which
might hurt high performance or real-time workloads.

To fix this, let's replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched.
Although the latter one may take much longer to finish, it shouldn't be
a problem in this particular case, because memory cgroups are destroyed
asynchronously from a workqueue so that no user visible effects should
be introduced. OTOH, it will save us from excessive IPIs when someone
removes a cgroup.

Anyway, even if using synchronize_sched turns out to take too long, we
can always introduce a kind of __kmem_cache_shrink batching so that this
method would only be called once per one cgroup destruction (not per
each per memcg kmem cache as it is now).

Reported-and-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/slub.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 279e773d80d3..03067f43dcf4 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3697,7 +3697,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s, bool deactivate)
 		 * s->cpu_partial is checked locklessly (see put_cpu_partial),
 		 * so we have to make sure the change is visible.
 		 */
-		kick_all_cpus_sync();
+		synchronize_sched();
 	}
 
 	flush_all(s);
-- 
2.1.4

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Re: [PATCH] mm: slub: replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched in kmem_cache_shrink

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 03:30:17PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When we call __kmem_cache_shrink on memory cgroup removal, we need to
> synchronize kmem_cache->cpu_partial update with put_cpu_partial that
> might be running on other cpus. Currently, we achieve that by using
> kick_all_cpus_sync, which works as a system wide memory barrier. Though
> fast it is, this method has a flow - it issues a lot of IPIs, which
> might hurt high performance or real-time workloads.
> 
> To fix this, let's replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched.
> Although the latter one may take much longer to finish, it shouldn't be
> a problem in this particular case, because memory cgroups are destroyed
> asynchronously from a workqueue so that no user visible effects should
> be introduced. OTOH, it will save us from excessive IPIs when someone
> removes a cgroup.
> 
> Anyway, even if using synchronize_sched turns out to take too long, we
> can always introduce a kind of __kmem_cache_shrink batching so that this
> method would only be called once per one cgroup destruction (not per
> each per memcg kmem cache as it is now).
> 
> Reported-and-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>

Thanks!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

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Re: [PATCH] mm: slub: replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched in kmem_cache_shrink

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 01-04-16 15:30:17, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When we call __kmem_cache_shrink on memory cgroup removal, we need to
> synchronize kmem_cache->cpu_partial update with put_cpu_partial that
> might be running on other cpus. Currently, we achieve that by using
> kick_all_cpus_sync, which works as a system wide memory barrier. Though
> fast it is, this method has a flow - it issues a lot of IPIs, which
> might hurt high performance or real-time workloads.
> 
> To fix this, let's replace kick_all_cpus_sync with synchronize_sched.
> Although the latter one may take much longer to finish, it shouldn't be
> a problem in this particular case, because memory cgroups are destroyed
> asynchronously from a workqueue so that no user visible effects should
> be introduced. OTOH, it will save us from excessive IPIs when someone
> removes a cgroup.
> 
> Anyway, even if using synchronize_sched turns out to take too long, we
> can always introduce a kind of __kmem_cache_shrink batching so that this
> method would only be called once per one cgroup destruction (not per
> each per memcg kmem cache as it is now).
> 
> Reported-and-suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
>  mm/slub.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 279e773d80d3..03067f43dcf4 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3697,7 +3697,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s, bool deactivate)
>  		 * s->cpu_partial is checked locklessly (see put_cpu_partial),
>  		 * so we have to make sure the change is visible.
>  		 */
> -		kick_all_cpus_sync();
> +		synchronize_sched();
>  	}
>  
>  	flush_all(s);
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
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