memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in global background reclaim
The global kswapd scans per-zone LRU and reclaims pages regardless of the
cgroup. It breaks memory isolation since one cgroup can end up reclaiming
pages from another cgroup. Instead we should rely on memcg-aware target
reclaim including per-memcg kswapd and soft_limit hierarchical reclaim under
memory pressure.
In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored. This patch is the first
step to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough work.
This is part of the effort which tries to reduce reclaiming pages in global
LRU in memcg. The per-memcg background reclaim patchset further enhances the
per-cgroup targetting reclaim, which I should have V4 posted shortly.
Try running multiple memory intensive workloads within seperate memcgs. Watch
the counters of soft_steal in memory.stat.
$ cat /dev/cgroup/A/memory.stat | grep 'soft'
soft_steal 240000
soft_scan 240000
total_soft_steal 240000
total_soft_scan 240000
This patch:
In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored.
We would like to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough
work. Also, we need to make the memory pressure balanced across per-memcg
zones, like the logic vm-core. This patch is the first step where we
start with counting the nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed from soft_limit
reclaim into the global scan_control.
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7e01161..9ce6ec8 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2171,9 +2171,11 @@
unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
unsigned int swappiness,
- struct zone *zone)
+ struct zone *zone,
+ unsigned long *nr_scanned)
{
struct scan_control sc = {
+ .nr_scanned = 0,
.nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
.may_unmap = 1,
@@ -2182,6 +2184,7 @@
.order = 0,
.mem_cgroup = mem,
};
+
sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
@@ -2200,6 +2203,7 @@
trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
+ *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
return sc.nr_reclaimed;
}
@@ -2347,6 +2351,8 @@
int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
unsigned long total_scanned;
struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
+ unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
+ unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
struct scan_control sc = {
.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
.may_unmap = 1,
@@ -2439,11 +2445,15 @@
sc.nr_scanned = 0;
+ nr_soft_scanned = 0;
/*
* Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
- * For now we ignore the return value
*/
- mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone, order, sc.gfp_mask);
+ nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
+ order, sc.gfp_mask,
+ &nr_soft_scanned);
+ sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
+ total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
/*
* We put equal pressure on every zone, unless
