Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: Add the missing numa stat of anon and file for cgroup v2

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:02 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:46 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the cgroup v1, we have a numa_stat interface. This is useful for
> > providing visibility into the numa locality information within an
> > memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical
> > node. One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by
> > combining this information with the application's CPU allocation.
> > But the cgroup v2 does not. So this patch adds the missing information.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > ---
>
> I am actually working on exposing this info on v2 as well.
>
> >  mm/memcontrol.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 75cd1a1e66c8..c779673f29b2 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -1492,10 +1492,34 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_wait_acct_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> >         return false;
> >  }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +static unsigned long memcg_node_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> > +                                          unsigned int nid,
> > +                                          enum node_stat_item idx)
> > +{
> > +       long x;
> > +       struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn;
> > +       struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(nid));
> > +
> > +       VM_BUG_ON(nid >= nr_node_ids);
> > +
> > +       pn = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_node, lruvec);
> > +       x = atomic_long_read(&pn->lruvec_stat[idx]);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > +       if (x < 0)
> > +               x = 0;
> > +#endif
> > +       return x;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  static char *memory_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> >  {
> >         struct seq_buf s;
> >         int i;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +       int nid;
> > +#endif
> >
> >         seq_buf_init(&s, kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL), PAGE_SIZE);
> >         if (!s.buffer)
> > @@ -1512,12 +1536,30 @@ static char *memory_stat_format(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> >          * Current memory state:
> >          */
> >
>
> Let's not break the parsers of memory.stat. I would prefer a separate
> interface like v1 i.e. memory.numa_stat.

It is also a good idea to expose a new interface like memory.numa_stat.

>
> > -       seq_buf_printf(&s, "anon %llu\n",
> > +       seq_buf_printf(&s, "anon %llu",
> >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_ANON_MAPPED) *
> >                        PAGE_SIZE);
> > -       seq_buf_printf(&s, "file %llu\n",
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +       for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
> > +               seq_buf_printf(&s, " N%d=%llu", nid,
> > +                              (u64)memcg_node_page_state(memcg, nid,
> > +                                                         NR_ANON_MAPPED) *
> > +                              PAGE_SIZE);
> > +#endif
> > +       seq_buf_putc(&s, '\n');
> > +
> > +       seq_buf_printf(&s, "file %llu",
> >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_PAGES) *
> >                        PAGE_SIZE);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +       for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY)
> > +               seq_buf_printf(&s, " N%d=%llu", nid,
> > +                              (u64)memcg_node_page_state(memcg, nid,
> > +                                                         NR_FILE_PAGES) *
> > +                              PAGE_SIZE);
> > +#endif
> > +       seq_buf_putc(&s, '\n');
> > +
>
> The v1's numa_stat exposes the LRUs, why NR_ANON_MAPPED and NR_FILE_PAGES?

If we want to expose the anon per node, we need to add inactive anon and
active anon together. Why not use NR_ANON_MAPPED directly?

>
> Also I think exposing slab_[un]reclaimable per node would be beneficial as well.

Yeah, I agree with you. Maybe kernel_stack and percpu also should
be exposed.

>
> >         seq_buf_printf(&s, "kernel_stack %llu\n",
> >                        (u64)memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB) *
> >                        1024);
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >



-- 
Yours,
Muchun