On Fri 29-05-20 09:06:10, Feng Tang wrote:
> When checking a performance change for will-it-scale scalability mmap test
> [1], we found very high lock contention for spinlock of percpu counter
> 'vm_committed_as':
> 
>     94.14%     0.35%  [kernel.kallsyms]         [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
>     48.21% 
> _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__vm_enough_memory;mmap_region;do_mmap;
>     45.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__do_munmap;
> 
> Actually this heavy lock contention is not always necessary.  The
> 'vm_committed_as' needs to be very precise when the strict
> OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is set, which requires a rather small batch number
> for the percpu counter.
> 
> So keep 'batch' number unchanged for strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy, and
> lift it to 64X for OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and OVERCOMMIT_GUESS policies.  Also
> add a sysctl handler to adjust it when the policy is reconfigured.
> 
> Benchmark with the same testcase in [1] shows 53% improvement on a 8C/16T
> desktop, and 2097%(20X) on a 4S/72C/144T server.  We tested with test
> platforms in 0day (server, desktop and laptop), and 80%+ platforms shows
> improvements with that test.  And whether it shows improvements depends on
> if the test mmap size is bigger than the batch number computed.
> 
> And if the lift is 16X, 1/3 of the platforms will show improvements,
> though it should help the mmap/unmap usage generally, as Michal Hocko
> mentioned:
> 
> : I believe that there are non-synthetic worklaods which would benefit from
> : a larger batch.  E.g.  large in memory databases which do large mmaps
> : during startups from multiple threads.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305062138.GI5972@shao2-debian/
> 
> Link: 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h   |  2 ++
>  include/linux/mman.h |  4 ++++
>  kernel/sysctl.c      |  2 +-
>  mm/mm_init.c         | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  mm/util.c            | 12 ++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 573947c..c2efea6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -206,6 +206,8 @@ int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, 
> void *, size_t *,
>               loff_t *);
>  int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *,
>               loff_t *);
> +int overcommit_policy_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void *, size_t *,
> +             loff_t *);
>  
>  #define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n))
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
> index 4b08e9c..91c93c1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mman.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mman.h
> @@ -57,8 +57,12 @@ extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  extern s32 vm_committed_as_batch;
> +extern void mm_compute_batch(void);
>  #else
>  #define vm_committed_as_batch 0
> +static inline void mm_compute_batch(void)
> +{
> +}
>  #endif
>  
>  unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void);
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index db1ce7a..9456c86 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
>               .data           = &sysctl_overcommit_memory,
>               .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_memory),
>               .mode           = 0644,
> -             .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec_minmax,
> +             .proc_handler   = overcommit_policy_handler,
>               .extra1         = SYSCTL_ZERO,
>               .extra2         = &two,
>       },
> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
> index 435e5f7..c5a6fb1 100644
> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <linux/memory.h>
>  #include <linux/notifier.h>
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/mman.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
> @@ -144,14 +145,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mm_kobj);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  s32 vm_committed_as_batch = 32;
>  
> -static void __meminit mm_compute_batch(void)
> +void mm_compute_batch(void)
>  {
>       u64 memsized_batch;
>       s32 nr = num_present_cpus();
>       s32 batch = max_t(s32, nr*2, 32);
> -
> -     /* batch size set to 0.4% of (total memory/#cpus), or max int32 */
> -     memsized_batch = min_t(u64, (totalram_pages()/nr)/256, 0x7fffffff);
> +     unsigned long ram_pages = totalram_pages();
> +
> +     /*
> +      * For policy of OVERCOMMIT_NEVER, set batch size to 0.4%
> +      * of (total memory/#cpus), and lift it to 25% for other
> +      * policies to easy the possible lock contention for percpu_counter
> +      * vm_committed_as, while the max limit is INT_MAX
> +      */
> +     if (sysctl_overcommit_memory == OVERCOMMIT_NEVER)
> +             memsized_batch = min_t(u64, ram_pages/nr/256, INT_MAX);
> +     else
> +             memsized_batch = min_t(u64, ram_pages/nr/4, INT_MAX);
>  
>       vm_committed_as_batch = max_t(s32, memsized_batch, batch);
>  }
> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
> index fe63271..580d268 100644
> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -746,6 +746,18 @@ int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, 
> int write, void *buffer,
>       return ret;
>  }
>  
> +int overcommit_policy_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void 
> *buffer,
> +             size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> +     if (ret == 0 && write)
> +             mm_compute_batch();
> +
> +     return ret;
> +}
> +
>  int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void 
> *buffer,
>               size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
>  {
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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