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SubjectRe: Re: [PATCH 4/7] bio-cgroup: Split the cgroup memory subsystem into two parts
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>> > This patch splits the cgroup memory subsystem into two parts.
>> > One is for tracking pages to find out the owners. The other is
>> > for controlling how much amount of memory should be assigned to
>> > each cgroup.
>> >
>> > With this patch, you can use the page tracking mechanism even if
>> > the memory subsystem is off.
>> >
>> > Based on 2.6.27-rc1-mm1
>> > Signed-off-by: Ryo Tsuruta <ryov@valinux.co.jp>
>> > Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>
>> >
>>
>> Plese CC me or Balbir or Pavel (See Maintainer list) when you try this ;)
>>
>> After this patch, the total structure is
>>
>> page <-> page_cgroup <-> bio_cgroup.
>> (multiple bio_cgroup can be attached to page_cgroup)
>>
>> Does this pointer chain will add
>> - significant performance regression or
>> - new race condtions
>> ?
>
>I don't think it will cause significant performance loss, because
>the link between a page and a page_cgroup has already existed, which
>the memory resource controller prepared. Bio_cgroup uses this as it is,
>and does nothing about this.
>
>And the link between page_cgroup and bio_cgroup isn't protected
>by any additional spin-locks, since the associated bio_cgroup is
>guaranteed to exist as long as the bio_cgroup owns pages.
>
Hmm, I think page_cgroup's cost is visible when
1. a page is changed to be in-use state. (fault or radixt-tree-insert)
2. a page is changed to be out-of-use state (fault or radixt-tree-removal)
3. memcg hit its limit or global LRU reclaim runs.

"1" and "2" can be catched as 5% loss of exec throuput.
"3" is not measured (because LRU walk itself is heavy.)

What new chances to access page_cgroup you'll add ?
I'll have to take into account them.

>I've just noticed that most of overhead comes from the spin-locks
>when reclaiming the pages inside mem_cgroups and the spin-locks to
>protect the links between pages and page_cgroups.
Overhead between page <-> page_cgroup lock is cannot be catched by
lock_stat now.Do you have numbers ?
But ok, there are too many locks ;(

>The latter overhead comes from the policy your team has chosen
>that page_cgroup structures are allocated on demand. I still feel
>this approach doesn't make any sense because linux kernel tries to
>make use of most of the pages as far as it can, so most of them
>have to be assigned its related page_cgroup. It would make us happy
>if page_cgroups are allocated at the booting time.
>
Now, multi-sizer-page-cache is discussed for a long time. If it's our
direction, on-demand page_cgroup make sense.


>> For example, adding a simple function.
>> ==
>> int get_page_io_id(struct page *)
>> - returns a I/O cgroup ID for this page. If ID is not found, -1 is returne
d.
>> ID is not guaranteed to be valid value. (ID can be obsolete)
>> ==
>> And just storing cgroup ID to page_cgroup at page allocation.
>> Then, making bio_cgroup independent from page_cgroup and
>> get ID if avialble and avoid too much pointer walking.
>
>I don't think there are any diffrences between a poiter and ID.
>I think this ID is just a encoded version of the pointer.
>
ID can be obsolete, pointer is not. memory cgroup has to take care of
bio cgroup's race condition ? (About race conditions, it's already complicated
enough)

To be honest, I think adding a new (4 or 8 bytes) page struct and record infor
mation of bio-control is more straightforward approach. Buy as you might
think, "there is no room"

Thanks,
-Kame



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