On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 09:20:27PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> Most kmem_cache_alloc() calls are from user context. With instrumentation
> enabled, the measured amount of kmem_cache_alloc() calls from non-task
> context was about 0.01% of the total.
> 
> The irq disable/enable sequence used in this case to access content
> from object stock is slow.  To optimize for user context access, there
> are now two object stocks for task context and interrupt context access
> respectively.
> 
> The task context object stock can be accessed after disabling preemption
> which is cheap in non-preempt kernel. The interrupt context object stock
> can only be accessed after disabling interrupt. User context code can
> access interrupt object stock, but not vice versa.
> 
> The mod_objcg_state() function is also modified to make sure that memcg
> and lruvec stat updates are done with interrupted disabled.
> 
> The downside of this change is that there are more data stored in local
> object stocks and not reflected in the charge counter and the vmstat
> arrays.  However, this is a small price to pay for better performance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shake...@google.com>

This makes sense, and also explains the previous patch a bit
better. But please merge those two.

> @@ -2229,7 +2229,8 @@ struct obj_stock {
>  struct memcg_stock_pcp {
>       struct mem_cgroup *cached; /* this never be root cgroup */
>       unsigned int nr_pages;
> -     struct obj_stock obj;
> +     struct obj_stock task_obj;
> +     struct obj_stock irq_obj;
>  
>       struct work_struct work;
>       unsigned long flags;
> @@ -2254,11 +2255,48 @@ static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct 
> memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * Most kmem_cache_alloc() calls are from user context. The irq 
> disable/enable
> + * sequence used in this case to access content from object stock is slow.
> + * To optimize for user context access, there are now two object stocks for
> + * task context and interrupt context access respectively.
> + *
> + * The task context object stock can be accessed by disabling preemption only
> + * which is cheap in non-preempt kernel. The interrupt context object stock
> + * can only be accessed after disabling interrupt. User context code can
> + * access interrupt object stock, but not vice versa.
> + */
>  static inline struct obj_stock *current_obj_stock(void)
>  {
>       struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
>  
> -     return &stock->obj;
> +     return in_task() ? &stock->task_obj : &stock->irq_obj;
> +}
> +
> +#define get_obj_stock(flags)                         \
> +({                                                   \
> +     struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;                  \
> +     struct obj_stock *obj_stock;                    \
> +                                                     \
> +     if (in_task()) {                                \
> +             preempt_disable();                      \
> +             (flags) = -1L;                          \
> +             stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);     \
> +             obj_stock = &stock->task_obj;           \
> +     } else {                                        \
> +             local_irq_save(flags);                  \
> +             stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);     \
> +             obj_stock = &stock->irq_obj;            \
> +     }                                               \
> +     obj_stock;                                      \
> +})
> +
> +static inline void put_obj_stock(unsigned long flags)
> +{
> +     if (flags == -1L)
> +             preempt_enable();
> +     else
> +             local_irq_restore(flags);
>  }

Please make them both functions and use 'unsigned long *flags'.

Also I'm not sure doing in_task() twice would actually be more
expensive than the == -1 special case, and easier to understand.

> @@ -2327,7 +2365,9 @@ static void drain_local_stock(struct work_struct *dummy)
>       local_irq_save(flags);
>  
>       stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
> -     drain_obj_stock(&stock->obj);
> +     drain_obj_stock(&stock->irq_obj);
> +     if (in_task())
> +             drain_obj_stock(&stock->task_obj);
>       drain_stock(stock);
>       clear_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &stock->flags);
>  
> @@ -3183,7 +3223,7 @@ static inline void mod_objcg_state(struct obj_cgroup 
> *objcg,
>       memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
>       if (pgdat)
>               lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
> -     __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(memcg, lruvec, idx, nr);
> +     mod_memcg_lruvec_state(memcg, lruvec, idx, nr);
>       rcu_read_unlock();

This is actually a bug introduced in the earlier patch, isn't it?
Calling __mod_memcg_lruvec_state() without irqs disabled...

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