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memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock
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While back-porting Johannes Weiner's patch "mm: memcg-aware global
reclaim" for an internal effort, we noticed a significant performance
regression during page-reclaim heavy workloads due to high contention of
the ss->id_lock.  This lock protects idr map, and serializes calls to
idr_get_next() in css_get_next() (which is used during the memcg hierarchy
walk).

Since idr_get_next() is just doing a look up, we need only serialize it
with respect to idr_remove()/idr_get_new().  By making the ss->id_lock a
rwlock, contention is greatly reduced and performance improves.

Tested: cat a 256m file from a ramdisk in a 128m container 50 times on
each core (one file + container per core) in parallel on a NUMA machine.
Result is the time for the test to complete in 1 of the containers.
Both kernels included Johannes' memcg-aware global reclaim patches.

Before rwlock patch: 1710.778s
After rwlock patch: 152.227s

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Bresticker authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 2, 2011
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/cgroup.h
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Expand Up @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
struct list_head sibling;
/* used when use_id == true */
struct idr idr;
spinlock_t id_lock;
rwlock_t id_lock;

/* should be defined only by modular subsystems */
struct module *module;
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18 changes: 9 additions & 9 deletions kernel/cgroup.c
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Expand Up @@ -4883,9 +4883,9 @@ void free_css_id(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)

rcu_assign_pointer(id->css, NULL);
rcu_assign_pointer(css->id, NULL);
spin_lock(&ss->id_lock);
write_lock(&ss->id_lock);
idr_remove(&ss->idr, id->id);
spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
write_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
kfree_rcu(id, rcu_head);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_css_id);
Expand All @@ -4911,10 +4911,10 @@ static struct css_id *get_new_cssid(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, int depth)
error = -ENOMEM;
goto err_out;
}
spin_lock(&ss->id_lock);
write_lock(&ss->id_lock);
/* Don't use 0. allocates an ID of 1-65535 */
error = idr_get_new_above(&ss->idr, newid, 1, &myid);
spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
write_unlock(&ss->id_lock);

/* Returns error when there are no free spaces for new ID.*/
if (error) {
Expand All @@ -4929,9 +4929,9 @@ static struct css_id *get_new_cssid(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, int depth)
return newid;
remove_idr:
error = -ENOSPC;
spin_lock(&ss->id_lock);
write_lock(&ss->id_lock);
idr_remove(&ss->idr, myid);
spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
write_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
err_out:
kfree(newid);
return ERR_PTR(error);
Expand All @@ -4943,7 +4943,7 @@ static int __init_or_module cgroup_init_idr(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
{
struct css_id *newid;

spin_lock_init(&ss->id_lock);
rwlock_init(&ss->id_lock);
idr_init(&ss->idr);

newid = get_new_cssid(ss, 0);
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* scan next entry from bitmap(tree), tmpid is updated after
* idr_get_next().
*/
spin_lock(&ss->id_lock);
read_lock(&ss->id_lock);
tmp = idr_get_next(&ss->idr, &tmpid);
spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock);
read_unlock(&ss->id_lock);

if (!tmp)
break;
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