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SubjectRe: [PATCH bpf-next v5 8/8] bpf: add a selftest for cgroup hierarchical stats collection
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On 7/22/22 10:48 AM, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Add a selftest that tests the whole workflow for collecting,
> aggregating (flushing), and displaying cgroup hierarchical stats.
>
> TL;DR:
> - Userspace program creates a cgroup hierarchy and induces memcg reclaim
> in parts of it.
> - Whenever reclaim happens, vmscan_start and vmscan_end update
> per-cgroup percpu readings, and tell rstat which (cgroup, cpu) pairs
> have updates.
> - When userspace tries to read the stats, vmscan_dump calls rstat to flush
> the stats, and outputs the stats in text format to userspace (similar
> to cgroupfs stats).
> - rstat calls vmscan_flush once for every (cgroup, cpu) pair that has
> updates, vmscan_flush aggregates cpu readings and propagates updates
> to parents.
> - Userspace program makes sure the stats are aggregated and read
> correctly.
>
> Detailed explanation:
> - The test loads tracing bpf programs, vmscan_start and vmscan_end, to
> measure the latency of cgroup reclaim. Per-cgroup readings are stored in
> percpu maps for efficiency. When a cgroup reading is updated on a cpu,
> cgroup_rstat_updated(cgroup, cpu) is called to add the cgroup to the
> rstat updated tree on that cpu.
>
> - A cgroup_iter program, vmscan_dump, is loaded and pinned to a file, for
> each cgroup. Reading this file invokes the program, which calls
> cgroup_rstat_flush(cgroup) to ask rstat to propagate the updates for all
> cpus and cgroups that have updates in this cgroup's subtree. Afterwards,
> the stats are exposed to the user. vmscan_dump returns 1 to terminate
> iteration early, so that we only expose stats for one cgroup per read.
>
> - An ftrace program, vmscan_flush, is also loaded and attached to
> bpf_rstat_flush. When rstat flushing is ongoing, vmscan_flush is invoked
> once for each (cgroup, cpu) pair that has updates. cgroups are popped
> from the rstat tree in a bottom-up fashion, so calls will always be
> made for cgroups that have updates before their parents. The program
> aggregates percpu readings to a total per-cgroup reading, and also
> propagates them to the parent cgroup. After rstat flushing is over, all
> cgroups will have correct updated hierarchical readings (including all
> cpus and all their descendants).
>
> - Finally, the test creates a cgroup hierarchy and induces memcg reclaim
> in parts of it, and makes sure that the stats collection, aggregation,
> and reading workflow works as expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>

Let us tag the subject with "selftests/bpf: Add a selftest ..." instead
of "bpf: add a selftest ..."

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