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author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2019-08-26 09:06:56 -0700 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2019-08-27 09:22:38 -0600 |
commit | 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc (patch) | |
tree | a89a3f0e814f684b87f9dd2198818d351b52c8aa /mm/memcontrol.c | |
parent | d62241c7a406f0680d702bd974f6f17e28ab8e5d (diff) | |
download | linux-97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc.tar.bz2 |
writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing
There's an inherent mismatch between memcg and writeback. The former
trackes ownership per-page while the latter per-inode. This was a
deliberate design decision because honoring per-page ownership in the
writeback path is complicated, may lead to higher CPU and IO overheads
and deemed unnecessary given that write-sharing an inode across
different cgroups isn't a common use-case.
Combined with inode majority-writer ownership switching, this works
well enough in most cases but there are some pathological cases. For
example, let's say there are two cgroups A and B which keep writing to
different but confined parts of the same inode. B owns the inode and
A's memory is limited far below B's. A's dirty ratio can rise enough
to trigger balance_dirty_pages() sleeps but B's can be low enough to
avoid triggering background writeback. A will be slowed down without
a way to make writeback of the dirty pages happen.
This patch implements foreign dirty recording and foreign mechanism so
that when a memcg encounters a condition as above it can trigger
flushes on bdi_writebacks which can clean its pages. Please see the
comment on top of mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() for
details.
A reproducer follows.
write-range.c::
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
static const char *usage = "write-range FILE START SIZE\n";
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
unsigned long start, size, end, pos;
char *endp;
char buf[4096];
if (argc < 4) {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}
fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return 1;
}
start = strtoul(argv[2], &endp, 0);
if (*endp != '\0') {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}
size = strtoul(argv[3], &endp, 0);
if (*endp != '\0') {
fprintf(stderr, usage);
return 1;
}
end = start + size;
while (1) {
for (pos = start; pos < end; ) {
long bread, bwritten = 0;
if (lseek(fd, pos, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
perror("lseek");
return 1;
}
bread = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf) < end - pos ?
sizeof(buf) : end - pos);
if (bread < 0) {
perror("read");
return 1;
}
if (bread == 0)
return 0;
while (bwritten < bread) {
long this;
this = write(fd, buf + bwritten,
bread - bwritten);
if (this < 0) {
perror("write");
return 1;
}
bwritten += this;
pos += bwritten;
}
}
}
}
repro.sh::
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
sysctl -w vm.dirty_expire_centisecs=300000
sysctl -w vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs=300000
sysctl -w vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds=300000
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
TEST=/sys/fs/cgroup/test
A=$TEST/A
B=$TEST/B
mkdir -p $A $B
echo "+memory +io" > $TEST/cgroup.subtree_control
echo $((1<<30)) > $A/memory.high
echo $((32<<30)) > $B/memory.high
rm -f testfile
touch testfile
fallocate -l 4G testfile
echo "Starting B"
(echo $BASHPID > $B/cgroup.procs
pv -q --rate-limit 70M < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile $((2<<30)) $((2<<30))) &
echo "Waiting 10s to ensure B claims the testfile inode"
sleep 5
sync
sleep 5
sync
echo "Starting A"
(echo $BASHPID > $A/cgroup.procs
pv < /dev/urandom | ./write-range testfile 0 $((2<<30)))
v2: Added comments explaining why the specific intervals are being used.
v3: Use 0 @nr when calling cgroup_writeback_by_id() to use best-effort
flushing while avoding possible livelocks.
v4: Use get_jiffies_64() and time_before/after64() instead of raw
jiffies_64 and arthimetic comparisons as suggested by Jan.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 134 |
1 files changed, 134 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index cdbb7a84cb6e..89b65f5ca634 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ int do_swap_account __read_mostly; #define do_swap_account 0 #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK +static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(memcg_cgwb_frn_waitq); +#endif + /* Whether legacy memory+swap accounting is active */ static bool do_memsw_account(void) { @@ -4145,6 +4149,127 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages, } } +/* + * Foreign dirty flushing + * + * There's an inherent mismatch between memcg and writeback. The former + * trackes ownership per-page while the latter per-inode. This was a + * deliberate design decision because honoring per-page ownership in the + * writeback path is complicated, may lead to higher CPU and IO overheads + * and deemed unnecessary given that write-sharing an inode across + * different cgroups isn't a common use-case. + * + * Combined with inode majority-writer ownership switching, this works well + * enough in most cases but there are some pathological cases. For + * example, let's say there are two cgroups A and B which keep writing to + * different but confined parts of the same inode. B owns the inode and + * A's memory is limited far below B's. A's dirty ratio can rise enough to + * trigger balance_dirty_pages() sleeps but B's can be low enough to avoid + * triggering background writeback. A will be slowed down without a way to + * make writeback of the dirty pages happen. + * + * Conditions like the above can lead to a cgroup getting repatedly and + * severely throttled after making some progress after each + * dirty_expire_interval while the underyling IO device is almost + * completely idle. + * + * Solving this problem completely requires matching the ownership tracking + * granularities between memcg and writeback in either direction. However, + * the more egregious behaviors can be avoided by simply remembering the + * most recent foreign dirtying events and initiating remote flushes on + * them when local writeback isn't enough to keep the memory clean enough. + * + * The following two functions implement such mechanism. When a foreign + * page - a page whose memcg and writeback ownerships don't match - is + * dirtied, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() records the inode owning + * bdi_writeback on the page owning memcg. When balance_dirty_pages() + * decides that the memcg needs to sleep due to high dirty ratio, it calls + * mem_cgroup_flush_foreign() which queues writeback on the recorded + * foreign bdi_writebacks which haven't expired. Both the numbers of + * recorded bdi_writebacks and concurrent in-flight foreign writebacks are + * limited to MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT. + * + * The mechanism only remembers IDs and doesn't hold any object references. + * As being wrong occasionally doesn't matter, updates and accesses to the + * records are lockless and racy. + */ +void mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath(struct page *page, + struct bdi_writeback *wb) +{ + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page->mem_cgroup; + struct memcg_cgwb_frn *frn; + u64 now = get_jiffies_64(); + u64 oldest_at = now; + int oldest = -1; + int i; + + /* + * Pick the slot to use. If there is already a slot for @wb, keep + * using it. If not replace the oldest one which isn't being + * written out. + */ + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++) { + frn = &memcg->cgwb_frn[i]; + if (frn->bdi_id == wb->bdi->id && + frn->memcg_id == wb->memcg_css->id) + break; + if (time_before64(frn->at, oldest_at) && + atomic_read(&frn->done.cnt) == 1) { + oldest = i; + oldest_at = frn->at; + } + } + + if (i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT) { + /* + * Re-using an existing one. Update timestamp lazily to + * avoid making the cacheline hot. We want them to be + * reasonably up-to-date and significantly shorter than + * dirty_expire_interval as that's what expires the record. + * Use the shorter of 1s and dirty_expire_interval / 8. + */ + unsigned long update_intv = + min_t(unsigned long, HZ, + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10) / 8); + + if (time_before64(frn->at, now - update_intv)) + frn->at = now; + } else if (oldest >= 0) { + /* replace the oldest free one */ + frn = &memcg->cgwb_frn[oldest]; + frn->bdi_id = wb->bdi->id; + frn->memcg_id = wb->memcg_css->id; + frn->at = now; + } +} + +/* issue foreign writeback flushes for recorded foreign dirtying events */ +void mem_cgroup_flush_foreign(struct bdi_writeback *wb) +{ + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css); + unsigned long intv = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10); + u64 now = jiffies_64; + int i; + + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++) { + struct memcg_cgwb_frn *frn = &memcg->cgwb_frn[i]; + + /* + * If the record is older than dirty_expire_interval, + * writeback on it has already started. No need to kick it + * off again. Also, don't start a new one if there's + * already one in flight. + */ + if (time_after64(frn->at, now - intv) && + atomic_read(&frn->done.cnt) == 1) { + frn->at = 0; + cgroup_writeback_by_id(frn->bdi_id, frn->memcg_id, 0, + WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH, + &frn->done); + } + } +} + #else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */ static int memcg_wb_domain_init(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp) @@ -4661,6 +4786,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) struct mem_cgroup *memcg; unsigned int size; int node; + int __maybe_unused i; size = sizeof(struct mem_cgroup); size += nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *); @@ -4704,6 +4830,9 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) #endif #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->cgwb_list); + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++) + memcg->cgwb_frn[i].done = + __WB_COMPLETION_INIT(&memcg_cgwb_frn_waitq); #endif idr_replace(&mem_cgroup_idr, memcg, memcg->id.id); return memcg; @@ -4833,7 +4962,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_released(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); + int __maybe_unused i; +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++) + wb_wait_for_completion(&memcg->cgwb_frn[i].done); +#endif if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !cgroup_memory_nosocket) static_branch_dec(&memcg_sockets_enabled_key); |