The patch titled Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: don't spin during memcg release has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-multi-gen-lru-dont-spin-during-memcg-release.patch

This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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------------------------------------------------------ From: "T.J. Mercier" tjmercier@google.com Subject: mm: multi-gen LRU: don't spin during memcg release Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:16:36 +0000

When a memcg is in the process of being released mem_cgroup_tryget will fail because its reference count has already reached 0. This can happen during reclaim if the memcg has already been offlined, and we reclaim all remaining pages attributed to the offlined memcg. shrink_many attempts to skip the empty memcg in this case, and continue reclaiming from the remaining memcgs in the old generation. If there is only one memcg remaining, or if all remaining memcgs are in the process of being released then shrink_many will spin until all memcgs have finished being released. The release occurs through a workqueue, so it can take a while before kswapd is able to make any further progress.

This fix results in reductions in kswapd activity and direct reclaim in a test where 28 apps (working set size > total memory) are repeatedly launched in a random sequence:

A B delta ratio(%) allocstall_movable 5962 3539 -2423 -40.64 allocstall_normal 2661 2417 -244 -9.17 kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 53152 7594 -45558 -85.71 pageoutrun 57365 11750 -45615 -79.52

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814151636.1639123-1-tjmercier@google.com Fixes: e4dde56cd208 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: per-node lru_gen_folio lists") Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier tjmercier@google.com Acked-by: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/vmscan.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-multi-gen-lru-dont-spin-during-memcg-release +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4854,16 +4854,17 @@ void lru_gen_release_memcg(struct mem_cg

spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->memcg_lru.lock);

- VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(hlist_nulls_unhashed(&lruvec->lrugen.list)); + if (hlist_nulls_unhashed(&lruvec->lrugen.list)) + goto unlock;

gen = lruvec->lrugen.gen;

- hlist_nulls_del_rcu(&lruvec->lrugen.list); + hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(&lruvec->lrugen.list); pgdat->memcg_lru.nr_memcgs[gen]--;

if (!pgdat->memcg_lru.nr_memcgs[gen] && gen == get_memcg_gen(pgdat->memcg_lru.seq)) WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->memcg_lru.seq, pgdat->memcg_lru.seq + 1); - +unlock: spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->memcg_lru.lock); } } @@ -5435,8 +5436,10 @@ restart: rcu_read_lock();

hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(lrugen, pos, &pgdat->memcg_lru.fifo[gen][bin], list) { - if (op) + if (op) { lru_gen_rotate_memcg(lruvec, op); + op = 0; + }

mem_cgroup_put(memcg);

@@ -5444,7 +5447,7 @@ restart: memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);

if (!mem_cgroup_tryget(memcg)) { - op = 0; + lru_gen_release_memcg(memcg); memcg = NULL; continue; } _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from tjmercier@google.com are

mm-multi-gen-lru-dont-spin-during-memcg-release.patch