+ mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch

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

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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:58:51 -0300

Now that the counters are modified via cmpxchg both CPU locally (via the
account functions), and remotely (via cpu_vm_stats_fold), its possible to
switch vmstat_shepherd to perform the per-CPU vmstats folding remotely.

This fixes the following two problems:

 1. A customer provided some evidence which indicates that
    the idle tick was stopped; albeit, CPU-specific vmstat
    counters still remained populated.

    Thus one can only assume quiet_vmstat() was not
    invoked on return to the idle loop. If I understand
    correctly, I suspect this divergence might erroneously
    prevent a reclaim attempt by kswapd. If the number of
    zone specific free pages are below their per-cpu drift
    value then zone_page_state_snapshot() is used to
    compute a more accurate view of the aforementioned
    statistic.  Thus any task blocked on the NUMA node
    specific pfmemalloc_wait queue will be unable to make
    significant progress via direct reclaim unless it is
    killed after being woken up by kswapd
    (see throttle_direct_reclaim())

 2. With a SCHED_FIFO task that busy loops on a given CPU,
    and kworker for that CPU at SCHED_OTHER priority,
    queuing work to sync per-vmstats will either cause that
    work to never execute, or stalld (i.e. stall daemon)
    boosts kworker priority which causes a latency
    violation

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303195909.003776725@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---


--- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely
+++ a/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -2010,6 +2010,23 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
 
 static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(shepherd, vmstat_shepherd);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
+/* Flush counters remotely if CPU uses cmpxchg to update its per-CPU counters */
+static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
+{
+	int cpu;
+
+	cpus_read_lock();
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu);
+		cond_resched();
+	}
+	cpus_read_unlock();
+
+	schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd,
+		round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
+}
+#else
 static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
 {
 	int cpu;
@@ -2029,6 +2046,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_
 	schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd,
 		round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
 }
+#endif
 
 static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void)
 {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mtosatti@redhat.com are

mm-vmstat-remove-remote-node-draining.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-arm64-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-loongarch-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-s390-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
this_cpu_cmpxchg-x86-switch-this_cpu_cmpxchg-to-locked-add-_local-function.patch
add-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local-and-asm-generic-definitions.patch
convert-this_cpu_cmpxchg-users-to-this_cpu_cmpxchg_local.patch
mm-vmstat-switch-counter-modification-to-cmpxchg.patch
mm-vmstat-use-xchg-in-cpu_vm_stats_fold.patch
mm-vmstat-switch-vmstat-shepherd-to-flush-per-cpu-counters-remotely.patch
mm-vmstat-refresh-stats-remotely-instead-of-via-work-item.patch