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  1. 11 9月, 2015 8 次提交
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      mm: introduce idle page tracking · 33c3fc71
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g.  by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced.  However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:

 - it does not count unmapped file pages
 - it affects the reclaimer logic

To overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g.  by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.

The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer.  A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.

Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      33c3fc71
    • V
      mmu-notifier: add clear_young callback · 1d7715c6
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      In the scope of the idle memory tracking feature, which is introduced by
the following patch, we need to clear the referenced/accessed bit not only
in primary, but also in secondary ptes.  The latter is required in order
to estimate wss of KVM VMs.  At the same time we want to avoid flushing
tlb, because it is quite expensive and it won't really affect the final
result.

Currently, there is no function for clearing pte young bit that would meet
our requirements, so this patch introduces one.  To achieve that we have
to add a new mmu-notifier callback, clear_young, since there is no method
for testing-and-clearing a secondary pte w/o flushing tlb.  The new method
is not mandatory and currently only implemented by KVM.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Acked-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1d7715c6
    • V
      memcg: zap try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page · e993d905
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      It is only used in mem_cgroup_try_charge, so fold it in and zap it.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e993d905
    • V
      hwpoison: use page_cgroup_ino for filtering by memcg · 94a59fb3
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      Hwpoison allows to filter pages by memory cgroup ino.  Currently, it
calls try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page to obtain the cgroup from a page and
then its ino using cgroup_ino, but now we have a helper method for
that, page_cgroup_ino, so use it instead.

This patch also loosens the hwpoison memcg filter dependency rules - it
makes it depend on CONFIG_MEMCG instead of CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP, because
hwpoison memcg filter does not require anything (nor it used to) from
CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP side.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      94a59fb3
    • V
      memcg: add page_cgroup_ino helper · 2fc04524
      由 Vladimir Davydov 提交于 
      This patchset introduces a new user API for tracking user memory pages
that have not been used for a given period of time.  The purpose of this
is to provide the userspace with the means of tracking a workload's
working set, i.e.  the set of pages that are actively used by the
workload.  Knowing the working set size can be useful for partitioning the
system more efficiently, e.g.  by tuning memory cgroup limits
appropriately, or for job placement within a compute cluster.

==== USE CASES ====

The unified cgroup hierarchy has memory.low and memory.high knobs, which
are defined as the low and high boundaries for the workload working set
size.  However, the working set size of a workload may be unknown or
change in time.  With this patch set, one can periodically estimate the
amount of memory unused by each cgroup and tune their memory.low and
memory.high parameters accordingly, therefore optimizing the overall
memory utilization.

Another use case is balancing workloads within a compute cluster.  Knowing
how much memory is not really used by a workload unit may help take a more
optimal decision when considering migrating the unit to another node
within the cluster.

Also, as noted by Minchan, this would be useful for per-process reclaim
(https://lwn.net/Articles/545668/). With idle tracking, we could reclaim idle
pages only by smart user memory manager.

==== USER API ====

The user API consists of two new files:

 * /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.  This file implements a bitmap where each
   bit corresponds to a page, indexed by PFN. When the bit is set, the
   corresponding page is idle. A page is considered idle if it has not been
   accessed since it was marked idle. To mark a page idle one should set the
   bit corresponding to the page by writing to the file. A value written to the
   file is OR-ed with the current bitmap value. Only user memory pages can be
   marked idle, for other page types input is silently ignored. Writing to this
   file beyond max PFN results in the ENXIO error. Only available when
   CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING is set.

   This file can be used to estimate the amount of pages that are not
   used by a particular workload as follows:

   1. mark all pages of interest idle by setting corresponding bits in the
      /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap
   2. wait until the workload accesses its working set
   3. read /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap and count the number of bits set

 * /proc/kpagecgroup.  This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
   memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
   CONFIG_MEMCG is set.

   This file can be used to find all pages (including unmapped file pages)
   accounted to a particular cgroup. Using /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap, one
   can then estimate the cgroup working set size.

For an example of using these files for estimating the amount of unused
memory pages per each memory cgroup, please see the script attached
below.

==== REASONING ====

The reason to introduce the new user API instead of using
/proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps} is that the latter has two serious
drawbacks:

 - it does not count unmapped file pages
 - it affects the reclaimer logic

The new API attempts to overcome them both. For more details on how it
is achieved, please see the comment to patch 6.

==== PATCHSET STRUCTURE ====

The patch set is organized as follows:

 - patch 1 adds page_cgroup_ino() helper for the sake of
   /proc/kpagecgroup and patches 2-3 do related cleanup
 - patch 4 adds /proc/kpagecgroup, which reports cgroup ino each page is
   charged to
 - patch 5 introduces a new mmu notifier callback, clear_young, which is
   a lightweight version of clear_flush_young; it is used in patch 6
 - patch 6 implements the idle page tracking feature, including the
   userspace API, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap
 - patch 7 exports idle flag via /proc/kpageflags

==== SIMILAR WORKS ====

Originally, the patch for tracking idle memory was proposed back in 2011
by Michel Lespinasse (see http://lwn.net/Articles/459269/).  The main
difference between Michel's patch and this one is that Michel implemented
a kernel space daemon for estimating idle memory size per cgroup while
this patch only provides the userspace with the minimal API for doing the
job, leaving the rest up to the userspace.  However, they both share the
same idea of Idle/Young page flags to avoid affecting the reclaimer logic.

==== PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ====

SPECjvm2008 (https://www.spec.org/jvm2008/) was used to evaluate the
performance impact introduced by this patch set.  Three runs were carried
out:

 - base: kernel without the patch
 - patched: patched kernel, the feature is not used
 - patched-active: patched kernel, 1 minute-period daemon is used for
   tracking idle memory

For tracking idle memory, idlememstat utility was used:
https://github.com/locker/idlememstat

testcase            base            patched        patched-active

compiler       537.40 ( 0.00)%   532.26 (-0.96)%   538.31 ( 0.17)%
compress       305.47 ( 0.00)%   301.08 (-1.44)%   300.71 (-1.56)%
crypto         284.32 ( 0.00)%   282.21 (-0.74)%   284.87 ( 0.19)%
derby          411.05 ( 0.00)%   413.44 ( 0.58)%   412.07 ( 0.25)%
mpegaudio      189.96 ( 0.00)%   190.87 ( 0.48)%   189.42 (-0.28)%
scimark.large   46.85 ( 0.00)%    46.41 (-0.94)%    47.83 ( 2.09)%
scimark.small  412.91 ( 0.00)%   415.41 ( 0.61)%   421.17 ( 2.00)%
serial         204.23 ( 0.00)%   213.46 ( 4.52)%   203.17 (-0.52)%
startup         36.76 ( 0.00)%    35.49 (-3.45)%    35.64 (-3.05)%
sunflow        115.34 ( 0.00)%   115.08 (-0.23)%   117.37 ( 1.76)%
xml            620.55 ( 0.00)%   619.95 (-0.10)%   620.39 (-0.03)%

composite      211.50 ( 0.00)%   211.15 (-0.17)%   211.67 ( 0.08)%

time idlememstat:

17.20user 65.16system 2:15:23elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 8476maxresident)k
448inputs+40outputs (1major+36052minor)pagefaults 0swaps

==== SCRIPT FOR COUNTING IDLE PAGES PER CGROUP ====
#! /usr/bin/python
#

import os
import stat
import errno
import struct

CGROUP_MOUNT = "/sys/fs/cgroup/memory"
BUFSIZE = 8 * 1024  # must be multiple of 8

def get_hugepage_size():
    with open("/proc/meminfo", "r") as f:
        for s in f:
            k, v = s.split(":")
            if k == "Hugepagesize":
                return int(v.split()[0]) * 1024

PAGE_SIZE = os.sysconf("SC_PAGE_SIZE")
HUGEPAGE_SIZE = get_hugepage_size()

def set_idle():
    f = open("/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap", "wb", BUFSIZE)
    while True:
        try:
            f.write(struct.pack("Q", pow(2, 64) - 1))
        except IOError as err:
            if err.errno == errno.ENXIO:
                break
            raise
    f.close()

def count_idle():
    f_flags = open("/proc/kpageflags", "rb", BUFSIZE)
    f_cgroup = open("/proc/kpagecgroup", "rb", BUFSIZE)

    with open("/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap", "rb", BUFSIZE) as f:
        while f.read(BUFSIZE): pass  # update idle flag

    idlememsz = {}
    while True:
        s1, s2 = f_flags.read(8), f_cgroup.read(8)
        if not s1 or not s2:
            break

        flags, = struct.unpack('Q', s1)
        cgino, = struct.unpack('Q', s2)

        unevictable = (flags >> 18) & 1
        huge = (flags >> 22) & 1
        idle = (flags >> 25) & 1

        if idle and not unevictable:
            idlememsz[cgino] = idlememsz.get(cgino, 0) + \
                (HUGEPAGE_SIZE if huge else PAGE_SIZE)

    f_flags.close()
    f_cgroup.close()
    return idlememsz

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "Setting the idle flag for each page..."
    set_idle()

    raw_input("Wait until the workload accesses its working set, "
              "then press Enter")

    print "Counting idle pages..."
    idlememsz = count_idle()

    for dir, subdirs, files in os.walk(CGROUP_MOUNT):
        ino = os.stat(dir)[stat.ST_INO]
        print dir + ": " + str(idlememsz.get(ino, 0) / 1024) + " kB"
==== END SCRIPT ====

This patch (of 8):

Add page_cgroup_ino() helper to memcg.

This function returns the inode number of the closest online ancestor of
the memory cgroup a page is charged to.  It is required for exporting
information about which page is charged to which cgroup to userspace,
which will be introduced by a following patch.
Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2fc04524
    • D
      zswap: change zpool/compressor at runtime · 90b0fc26
      由 Dan Streetman 提交于 
      Update the zpool and compressor parameters to be changeable at runtime.
When changed, a new pool is created with the requested zpool/compressor,
and added as the current pool at the front of the pool list.  Previous
pools remain in the list only to remove existing compressed pages from.
The old pool(s) are removed once they become empty.
Signed-off-by: NDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: NSeth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90b0fc26
    • D
      zswap: dynamic pool creation · f1c54846
      由 Dan Streetman 提交于 
      Add dynamic creation of pools.  Move the static crypto compression per-cpu
transforms into each pool.  Add a pointer to zswap_entry to the pool it's
in.

This is required by the following patch which enables changing the zswap
zpool and compressor params at runtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix merge snafus]
Signed-off-by: NDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: NSeth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f1c54846
    • D
      zpool: add zpool_has_pool() · 3f0e1312
      由 Dan Streetman 提交于 
      This series makes creation of the zpool and compressor dynamic, so that
they can be changed at runtime.  This makes using/configuring zswap
easier, as before this zswap had to be configured at boot time, using boot
params.

This uses a single list to track both the zpool and compressor together,
although Seth had mentioned an alternative which is to track the zpools
and compressors using separate lists.  In the most common case, only a
single zpool and single compressor, using one list is slightly simpler
than using two lists, and for the uncommon case of multiple zpools and/or
compressors, using one list is slightly less simple (and uses slightly
more memory, probably) than using two lists.

This patch (of 4):

Add zpool_has_pool() function, indicating if the specified type of zpool
is available (i.e.  zsmalloc or zbud).  This allows checking if a pool is
available, without actually trying to allocate it, similar to
crypto_has_alg().

This is used by a following patch to zswap that enables the dynamic
runtime creation of zswap zpools.
Signed-off-by: NDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: NSeth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f0e1312
  3. 09 9月, 2015 32 次提交