On 09/09/2014 07:50 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > The mctz->lock is only taken when there is, or has been, soft limit > excess. However, the soft limit defaults to infinity, so unless you > set it explicitly on the root level, I can't see how this could be > mctz->lock contention. > > It's more plausible that this is the res_counter lock for testing soft > limit excess - for me, both these locks get inlined into check_events, > could you please double check you got the right lock?
I got the wrong lock. Here's how it looks after mainline, plus your
free_pages_and_swap_cache() patch:
Samples: 2M of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 51647128377
+ 60.60% 1.33% page_fault2_processes [.] testcase
▒
+ 59.14% 0.41% [kernel] [k] page_fault
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+ 58.72% 0.01% [kernel] [k] do_page_fault
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+ 58.70% 0.08% [kernel] [k] __do_page_fault
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+ 58.50% 0.29% [kernel] [k] handle_mm_fault
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+ 40.14% 0.28% [kernel] [k] do_cow_fault
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- 34.56% 34.56% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
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- _raw_spin_lock
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- 78.11% __res_counter_charge
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res_counter_charge
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try_charge
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- mem_cgroup_try_charge
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+ 99.99% do_cow_fault
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- 10.30% res_counter_uncharge_until
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res_counter_uncharge
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uncharge_batch
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uncharge_list
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mem_cgroup_uncharge_list
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release_pages
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+ 4.75% free_pcppages_bulk
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+ 3.65% do_cow_fault
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+ 2.24% get_page_from_freelist
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> You also said that this cost hasn't been there before, but I do see
> that trace in both v3.16 and v3.17-rc3 with roughly the same impact
> (although my machines show less contention than yours). Could you
> please double check that this is in fact a regression independent of
> 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup res_counter")?
Here's the same workload on the same machine with only Johannes' revert applied:
- 35.92% 35.92% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
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- _raw_spin_lock
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- 49.09% get_page_from_freelist
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- __alloc_pages_nodemask
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+ 99.90% alloc_pages_vma
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- 43.67% free_pcppages_bulk
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- 100.00% free_hot_cold_page
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+ 99.93% free_hot_cold_page_list
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- 7.08% do_cow_fault
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handle_mm_fault
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__do_page_fault
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do_page_fault
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page_fault
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testcase
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So I think it's probably part of the same regression.
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