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mem_cgroup: make sure moving_account, move_lock_task and stat_cpu in the same cacheline
The LKP robot found a 27% will-it-scale/page_fault3 performance regression regarding commit e27be240("mm: memcg: make sure memory.events is uptodate when waking pollers"). What the test does is: 1 mkstemp() a 128M file on a tmpfs; 2 start $nr_cpu processes, each to loop the following: 2.1 mmap() this file in shared write mode; 2.2 write 0 to this file in a PAGE_SIZE step till the end of the file; 2.3 unmap() this file and repeat this process. 3 After 5 minutes, check how many loops they managed to complete, the higher the better. The commit itself looks innocent enough as it merely changed some event counting mechanism and this test didn't trigger those events at all. Perf shows increased cycles spent on accessing root_mem_cgroup->stat_cpu in count_memcg_event_mm()(called by handle_mm_fault()) and in __mod_memcg_state() called by page_add_file_rmap(). So it's likely due to the changed layout of 'struct mem_cgroup' that either make stat_cpu falling into a constantly modifying cacheline or some hot fields stop being in the same cacheline. I verified this by moving memory_events[] back to where it was: : --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h : +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h : @@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup { : int oom_kill_disable; : : /* memory.events */ : - atomic_long_t memory_events[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS]; : struct cgroup_file events_file; : : /* protect arrays of thresholds */ : @@ -238,6 +237,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup { : struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu __percpu *stat_cpu; : atomic_long_t stat[MEMCG_NR_STAT]; : atomic_long_t events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS]; : + atomic_long_t memory_events[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS]; : : unsigned long socket_pressure; And performance restored. Later investigation found that as long as the following 3 fields moving_account, move_lock_task and stat_cpu are in the same cacheline, performance will be good. To avoid future performance surprise by other commits changing the layout of 'struct mem_cgroup', this patch makes sure the 3 fields stay in the same cacheline. One concern of this approach is, moving_account and move_lock_task could be modified when a process changes memory cgroup while stat_cpu is a always read field, it might hurt to place them in the same cacheline. I assume it is rare for a process to change memory cgroup so this should be OK. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180528114019.GF9904@yexl-desktop Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180601071115.GA27302@intel.com Signed-off-by:Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Reported-by: