Re: [PATCH 1/4] memcg: use mod_node_page_state to update stats

[Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>]

On 02/02/26 9:56 am, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 06:35:21PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
>> On 11/11/25 4:50 am, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>> The memcg stats are safe against irq (and nmi) context and thus does not
>>> require disabling irqs. However some code paths for memcg stats also
>>> update the node level stats and use irq unsafe interface and thus
>>> require the users to disable irqs. However node level stats, on
>>> architectures with HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL (all major ones), has interface
>>> which does not require irq disabling. Let's move memcg stats code to
>>> start using that interface for node level stats.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
>>> ---
>> Hello Shakeel,
>>
>> We are seeing a regression in micromm/munmap benchmark with this patch, on arm64 -
>> the benchmark mmmaps a lot of memory, memsets it, and measures the time taken
>> to munmap. Please see below if my understanding of this patch is correct.
> Thanks for the report. Are you seeing regression in just the benchmark
> or some real workload as well? Also how much regression are you seeing?
> I have a kernel rebot regression report [1] for this patch as well which
> says 2.6% regression and thus it was on the back-burner for now. I will
> take look at this again soon.

The munmap regression is ~24%. Haven't observed a regression in any other
benchmark yet.

>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202512101408.af3876df-lkp@intel.com/
>