mm: page_counter: rearrange struct page_counter fields
authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:05:05 +0000 (00:05 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:26:01 +0000 (20:26 -0700)
commit408587baee39753304dd572dacf374f75545d25a
tree6264ad7b65a2f49bc8dcd0476dc9d49efc2c3fbf
parentcfdab60bfa66b2dc0391c9e405b8af6039924cd4
mm: page_counter: rearrange struct page_counter fields

With memcg v2 enabled, memcg->memory.usage is a very hot member for the
workloads doing memcg charging on multiple CPUs concurrently.
Particularly the network intensive workloads.  In addition, there is a
false cache sharing between memory.usage and memory.high on the charge
path.  This patch moves the usage into a separate cacheline and move all
the read most fields into separate cacheline.

To evaluate the impact of this optimization, on a 72 CPUs machine, we ran
the following workload in a three level of cgroup hierarchy.

 $ netserver -6
 # 36 instances of netperf with following params
 $ netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K

Results (average throughput of netperf):
Without (6.0-rc1) 10482.7 Mbps
With patch 12413.7 Mbps (18.4% improvement)

With the patch, the throughput improved by 18.4%.

One side-effect of this patch is the increase in the size of struct
mem_cgroup.  For example with this patch on 64 bit build, the size of
struct mem_cgroup increased from 4032 bytes to 4416 bytes.  However for
the performance improvement, this additional size is worth it.  In
addition there are opportunities to reduce the size of struct mem_cgroup
like deprecation of kmem and tcpmem page counters and better packing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825000506.239406-3-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page_counter.h