tree d120759b91e3e24d33f3d76010c9da990f115706
parent 569b846df54ffb2827b83ce3244c5f032394cba4
author KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> 1260924428 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1260976807 -0800

memcg: coalesce charging via percpu storage

This is a patch for coalescing access to res_counter at charging by percpu
caching.  At charge, memcg charges 64pages and remember it in percpu
cache.  Because it's cache, drain/flush if necessary.

This version uses public percpu area.
 2 benefits for using public percpu area.
 1. Sum of stocked charge in the system is limited to # of cpus
    not to the number of memcg. This shows better synchonization.
 2. drain code for flush/cpuhotplug is very easy (and quick)

The most important point of this patch is that we never touch res_counter
in fast path. The res_counter is system-wide shared counter which is modified
very frequently. We shouldn't touch it as far as we can for avoiding
false sharing.

On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.

[without memcg config]
  40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
  27.67 cache-miss/faults

[root cgroup]
  36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
  31.58 cache miss/faults

[in a child cgroup]
  18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
  69.96 cache miss/faults

[ + coalescing uncharge patch]
  27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
  47.16 cache miss/faults

[ + coalescing uncharge patch + this patch ]
  34224709  page-faults              #      0.072 M/sec   ( +-   0.173% )
  34.69 cache miss/faults

Changelog (since Oct/2):
  - updated comments
  - replaced get_cpu_var() with __get_cpu_var() if possible.
  - removed mutex for system-wide drain. adds a counter instead of it.
  - removed CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU

Changelog (old):
  - rebased onto the latest mmotm
  - moved charge size check before __GFP_WAIT check for avoiding unnecesary
  - added asynchronous flush routine.
  - fixed bugs pointed out by Nishimura-san.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: don't do INIT_WORK() repeatedly against the same work_struct]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>