Re: [PATCH 01/11] cgroup: move rstat pointers into struct of their own

Yosry Ahmed
2025-02-24T18:36:28Z

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 09:06:21AM -0800, JP Kobryn wrote:
> On 2/20/25 8:53 AM, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 07:14:38PM -0800, JP Kobryn wrote:
> > > The rstat infrastructure makes use of pointers for list management.
> > > These pointers only exist as fields in the cgroup struct, so moving them
> > > into their own struct will allow them to be used elsewhere. The base
> > > stat entities are included with them for now.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 90 +-----------------
> > > include/linux/cgroup_rstat.h | 92 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 3 +-
> > > kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 27 +++---
> > > .../selftests/bpf/progs/btf_type_tag_percpu.c | 4 +-
> > > 5 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
> > > create mode 100644 include/linux/cgroup_rstat.h
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
> > > index 1b20d2d8ef7c..6b6cc027fe70 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
> > > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> > > #include <linux/refcount.h>
> > > #include <linux/percpu-refcount.h>
> > > #include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
> > > -#include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
> > > +#include <linux/cgroup_rstat.h>
> > > #include <linux/workqueue.h>
> > > #include <linux/bpf-cgroup-defs.h>
> > > #include <linux/psi_types.h>
> > > @@ -321,78 +321,6 @@ struct css_set {
> > > struct rcu_head rcu_head;
> > > };
> > > -struct cgroup_base_stat {
> > > - struct task_cputime cputime;
> > > -
> > > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CORE
> > > - u64 forceidle_sum;
> > > -#endif
> > > - u64 ntime;
> > > -};
> > > -
> > > -/*
> > > - * rstat - cgroup scalable recursive statistics. Accounting is done
> > > - * per-cpu in cgroup_rstat_cpu which is then lazily propagated up the
> > > - * hierarchy on reads.
> > > - *
> > > - * When a stat gets updated, the cgroup_rstat_cpu and its ancestors are
> > > - * linked into the updated tree. On the following read, propagation only
> > > - * considers and consumes the updated tree. This makes reading O(the
> > > - * number of descendants which have been active since last read) instead of
> > > - * O(the total number of descendants).
> > > - *
> > > - * This is important because there can be a lot of (draining) cgroups which
> > > - * aren't active and stat may be read frequently. The combination can
> > > - * become very expensive. By propagating selectively, increasing reading
> > > - * frequency decreases the cost of each read.
> > > - *
> > > - * This struct hosts both the fields which implement the above -
> > > - * updated_children and updated_next - and the fields which track basic
> > > - * resource statistics on top of it - bsync, bstat and last_bstat.
> > > - */
> > > -struct cgroup_rstat_cpu {
> > > - /*
> > > - * ->bsync protects ->bstat. These are the only fields which get
> > > - * updated in the hot path.
> > > - */
> > > - struct u64_stats_sync bsync;
> > > - struct cgroup_base_stat bstat;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * Snapshots at the last reading. These are used to calculate the
> > > - * deltas to propagate to the global counters.
> > > - */
> > > - struct cgroup_base_stat last_bstat;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * This field is used to record the cumulative per-cpu time of
> > > - * the cgroup and its descendants. Currently it can be read via
> > > - * eBPF/drgn etc, and we are still trying to determine how to
> > > - * expose it in the cgroupfs interface.
> > > - */
> > > - struct cgroup_base_stat subtree_bstat;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * Snapshots at the last reading. These are used to calculate the
> > > - * deltas to propagate to the per-cpu subtree_bstat.
> > > - */
> > > - struct cgroup_base_stat last_subtree_bstat;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * Child cgroups with stat updates on this cpu since the last read
> > > - * are linked on the parent's ->updated_children through
> > > - * ->updated_next.
> > > - *
> > > - * In addition to being more compact, singly-linked list pointing
> > > - * to the cgroup makes it unnecessary for each per-cpu struct to
> > > - * point back to the associated cgroup.
> > > - *
> > > - * Protected by per-cpu cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock.
> > > - */
> > > - struct cgroup *updated_children; /* terminated by self cgroup */
> > > - struct cgroup *updated_next; /* NULL iff not on the list */
> > > -};
> > > -
> > > struct cgroup_freezer_state {
> > > /* Should the cgroup and its descendants be frozen. */
> > > bool freeze;
> > > @@ -517,23 +445,9 @@ struct cgroup {
> > > struct cgroup *old_dom_cgrp; /* used while enabling threaded */
> > > /* per-cpu recursive resource statistics */
> > > - struct cgroup_rstat_cpu __percpu *rstat_cpu;
> > > + struct cgroup_rstat rstat;
> > > struct list_head rstat_css_list;
> > > - /*
> > > - * Add padding to separate the read mostly rstat_cpu and
> > > - * rstat_css_list into a different cacheline from the following
> > > - * rstat_flush_next and *bstat fields which can have frequent updates.
> > > - */
> > > - CACHELINE_PADDING(_pad_);
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * A singly-linked list of cgroup structures to be rstat flushed.
> > > - * This is a scratch field to be used exclusively by
> > > - * cgroup_rstat_flush_locked() and protected by cgroup_rstat_lock.
> > > - */
> > > - struct cgroup *rstat_flush_next;
> > > -
> > > /* cgroup basic resource statistics */
> > > struct cgroup_base_stat last_bstat;
> > > struct cgroup_base_stat bstat;
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup_rstat.h b/include/linux/cgroup_rstat.h
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..f95474d6f8ab
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/include/linux/cgroup_rstat.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
> > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > > +#ifndef _LINUX_RSTAT_H
> > > +#define _LINUX_RSTAT_H
> > > +
> > > +#include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
> > > +
> > > +struct cgroup_rstat_cpu;
> >
> > Why do we need the forward declaration instead of just defining struct
> > cgroup_rstat_cpu first? Also, why do we need a new header for these
> > definitions rather than just adding struct cgroup_rstat to
> > cgroup-defs.h?
>
> The new header was added so the cgroup_rstat type can be used in bpf
> cgroup-defs.h. As for the forward declaration, this was done so that
> updated_next and updated children fields of the cgroup_rstat_cpu can
> change type from from cgroup to cgroup_rstat.
>
> Regardless, based on the direction we are moving with bpf sharing the
> "self" tree, this new header will NOT be needed in v2.

Nice. Seems like the series will be simplified quite a bit by doing
this.