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Replace the memory controller's custom hierarchical stats code with the generic rstat infrastructure provided by the cgroup core. The current implementation does batched upward propagation from the write side (i.e. as stats change). The per-cpu batches introduce an error, which is multiplied by the number of subgroups in a tree. In systems with many CPUs and sizable cgroup trees, the error can be large enough to confuse users (e.g. 32 batch pages * 32 CPUs * 32 subgroups results in an error of up to 128M per stat item). This can entirely swallow allocation bursts inside a workload that the user is expecting to see reflected in the statistics. In the past, we've done read-side aggregation, where a memory.stat read would have to walk the entire subtree and add up per-cpu counts. This became problematic with lazily-freed cgroups: we could have large subtrees where most cgroups were entirely idle. Hence the switch to change-driven upward propagation. Unfortunately, it needed to trade accuracy for speed due to the write side being so hot. Rstat combines the best of both worlds: from the write side, it cheaply maintains a queue of cgroups that have pending changes, so that the read side can do selective tree aggregation. This way the reported stats will always be precise and recent as can be, while the aggregation can skip over potentially large numbers of idle cgroups. The way rstat works is that it implements a tree for tracking cgroups with pending local changes, as well as a flush function that walks the tree upwards. The controller then drives this by 1) telling rstat when a local cgroup stat changes (e.g. mod_memcg_state) and 2) when a flush is required to get uptodate hierarchy stats for a given subtree (e.g. when memory.stat is read). The controller also provides a flush callback that is called during the rstat flush walk for each cgroup and aggregates its local per-cpu counters and propagates them upwards. This adds a second vmstats to struct mem_cgroup (MEMCG_NR_STAT + NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS) to track pending subtree deltas during upward aggregation. It removes 3 words from the per-cpu data. It eliminates memcg_exact_page_state(), since memcg_page_state() is now exact. [[email protected]: merge fix] [[email protected]: fix a sleep in atomic section problem] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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