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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki | 2011-01-13 15:47:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2011-01-13 17:32:50 -0800 |
| commit | dbd4ea78f002df283c95d9774837041735fa1bf9 (patch) | |
| tree | e709c6c5c026b1c230bb87ddcfe8415aaf255820 /mm | |
| parent | 2a7106f2cb0768d00fe8c1eb42a754a7d8518f08 (diff) | |
memcg: add lock to synchronize page accounting and migration
Introduce a new bit spin lock, PCG_MOVE_LOCK, to synchronize the page
accounting and migration code. This reworks the locking scheme of
_update_stat() and _move_account() by adding new lock bit PCG_MOVE_LOCK,
which is always taken under IRQ disable.
1. If pages are being migrated from a memcg, then updates to that
memcg page statistics are protected by grabbing PCG_MOVE_LOCK using
move_lock_page_cgroup(). In an upcoming commit, memcg dirty page
accounting will be updating memcg page accounting (specifically: num
writeback pages) from IRQ context (softirq). Avoid a deadlocking
nested spin lock attempt by disabling irq on the local processor when
grabbing the PCG_MOVE_LOCK.
2. lock for update_page_stat is used only for avoiding race with
move_account(). So, IRQ awareness of lock_page_cgroup() itself is not
a problem. The problem is between mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() and
mem_cgroup_move_account_page().
Trade-off:
* Changing lock_page_cgroup() to always disable IRQ (or
local_bh) has some impacts on performance and I think
it's bad to disable IRQ when it's not necessary.
* adding a new lock makes move_account() slower. Score is
here.
Performance Impact: moving a 8G anon process.
Before:
real 0m0.792s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.780s
After:
real 0m0.854s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.842s
This score is bad but planned patches for optimization can reduce
this impact.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 3d8a0c79dece..d888956a2cfc 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1606,6 +1606,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *mem; struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); bool need_unlock = false; + unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags); if (unlikely(!pc)) return; @@ -1617,7 +1618,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page, /* pc->mem_cgroup is unstable ? */ if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_stealed(mem))) { /* take a lock against to access pc->mem_cgroup */ - lock_page_cgroup(pc); + move_lock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags); need_unlock = true; mem = pc->mem_cgroup; if (!mem || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)) @@ -1640,7 +1641,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page, out: if (unlikely(need_unlock)) - unlock_page_cgroup(pc); + move_unlock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags); rcu_read_unlock(); return; } @@ -2211,9 +2212,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page_cgroup *pc, struct mem_cgroup *from, struct mem_cgroup *to, bool uncharge) { int ret = -EINVAL; + unsigned long flags; + lock_page_cgroup(pc); if (PageCgroupUsed(pc) && pc->mem_cgroup == from) { + move_lock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags); __mem_cgroup_move_account(pc, from, to, uncharge); + move_unlock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags); ret = 0; } unlock_page_cgroup(pc); |