From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] memcg: Batch mod_memcg_state() for MEMCG_SOCK.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:27:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016052811.3085635-5-kuniyu@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016052811.3085635-1-kuniyu@google.com>
On our production fleet, we saw mem_cgroup_sk_charge() spent over
3x the cycles of try_charge_memcg() although the former should be
a thin wrapper of the latter.
Looking at perf during tcp_rr, most of the cycles were spent in
mod_memcg_state(MEMCG_SOCK), which incurred two heavy memory stalls
due to cache line misses:
mem_cgroup_sk_charge vmlinux [Percent: local period]
...
1.74 │ mov cpu_number,%esi
0.70 │ movslq %ebx,%rcx
0.31 │ mov 0x518(%r14),%rdx
8.99 │ add %rcx,%gs:0x18(%rdx,%rax,8)
^-- this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->state[i], val);
in mod_memcg_state()
>> 31.21 │ test %ebx,%ebx
0.05 │ ↓ je 97
│ mov %r14,%rdi
│ → call __css_rstat_updated
0.31 │ mov 0x518(%r14),%rdx
│ 72: test %rdx,%rdx
0.06 │ ↓ je 97
│ mov this_cpu_off,%rsi
0.17 │ mov 0x10(%rsi,%rdx,1),%rax
6.59 │ mov 0xc18(%rax),%eax
^-- atomic_read(&vmstats->stats_updates)
in memcg_vmstats_needs_flush()
>> 26.02 │ mov __num_online_cpus,%ecx
...
0.65 │ e5: mov %r14,%rdi
│ mov %edx,%esi
1.88 │ mov %ebx,%edx
│ → call try_charge_memcg
1.56 │ xor %ebp,%ebp
0.18 │ test %eax,%eax
0.22 │ ↑ jne 9f
│ ↑ jmp 31
Even worse, after the 2nd cache line miss, the subsequent
atomic_add() for statc->vmstats->stats_updates invalidates the
cache for other CPUs.
Moreover, try_charge_memcg() returned just after consume_stock()
in most cases, but it was not inlined even with FDO.
Usually, skb is charged and uncharged immediately, and caching
the counter in struct memcg_stock_pcp helps.
Let's reduce NR_MEMCG_STOCK from 7 to 6 to fit nr_sock[] in the
single cacheline of struct memcg_stock_pcp, inline the stock
fast path, and batch mod_memcg_state() for MEMCG_SOCK (-64, 64).
With this change, tcp_rr w/ 20000 flows achieves ~9% more
throughput and the TCP stack spends far fewer cycles on memcg.
Note that p90 latency improves only slightly because batching
amortises mod_memcg_state() and drain_stock() into every 64th
page.
tcp_rr (20000 flows, 128 threads, 60s, average of 3 runs):
Metric | Baseline | Patched | Diff
---------------------------+----------------+----------------+--------
Throughput (RPS) | 22,408,523 | 24,360,262 | +8.71%
Latency Mean (us) | 891.92 | 820.31 | -8.03%
Latency p50 (us) | 877.22 | 744.10 | -15.18%
Latency p90 (us) | 1,085.43 | 1,082.02 | -0.31%
perf cycles (20000 flows, 10s, average of 3 runs):
Server (M cycles / %) | Baseline | Patched | Diff
---------------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------
Host Total Cycles | 4,994,342 M | 4,793,242 M | -4.0%
tcp_rcv_established() | 213,968 M (4.283%) | 210,418 M (4.390%) | -1.7%
mem_cgroup_sk_charge() | 12,322 M (0.247%) | 6,390 M (0.133%) | -48.1%
try_charge_memcg() | 8,326 M (0.167%) | 0 M (0.000%) | -100.0%
mem_cgroup_sk_uncharge() | 7,492 M (0.150%) | 5,752 M (0.120%) | -23.2%
refill_stock() | 7,988 M (0.160%) | 0 M (0.000%) | -100.0%
Charge Total | 20,648 M (0.413%) | 6,390 M (0.133%) | -69.1%
Uncharge Total | 15,480 M (0.310%) | 5,752 M (0.120%) | -62.8%
Memcg Sock Total | 36,128 M (0.723%) | 12,142 M (0.253%) | -66.4%
As a side effect, "sock" in memory.stat can be off by up to
MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH pages per CPU until the slot is drained,
like memory.current with nr_pages[]. This is acceptable, as
flushing nr_sock[] every 2 seconds (FLUSH_TIME) across all CPUs
would rather cause cache line invalidation and hurt performance.
Note that MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH is unsigned int, so (int) cast is
needed, and stock_sock is declared as int rather than int8_t
to avoid potential overflow for MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH > 64 and to
generate better asm without 8-bit partial-register operations
or extra sign-extension before mod_memcg_state().
Also, __always_inline is needed for both __consume_stock() and
__refill_stock(), otherwise, FDO branch weight is calculated
from two callers with mixed states (nr_sock == 0 vs nr_sock != 0).
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index cc3d78938b34..52831ae7fd0f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2045,13 +2045,14 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_group(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
/*
* The value of NR_MEMCG_STOCK is selected to keep the cached memcgs and their
- * nr_pages in a single cacheline. This may change in future.
+ * nr_pages and nr_sock in a single cacheline. This may change in future.
*/
-#define NR_MEMCG_STOCK 7
+#define NR_MEMCG_STOCK 6
#define FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE 0
struct memcg_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
uint8_t nr_pages[NR_MEMCG_STOCK];
+ int8_t nr_sock[NR_MEMCG_STOCK];
struct mem_cgroup *cached[NR_MEMCG_STOCK];
struct work_struct work;
@@ -2111,9 +2112,10 @@ static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock,
struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg);
/**
- * consume_stock: Try to consume stocked charge on this cpu.
+ * __consume_stock: Try to consume stocked charge on this cpu.
* @memcg: memcg to consume from.
* @nr_pages: how many pages to charge.
+ * @nr_sock: how many pages to account for MEMCG_SOCK.
*
* Consume the cached charge if enough nr_pages are present otherwise return
* failure. Also return failure for charge request larger than
@@ -2121,10 +2123,13 @@ static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock,
*
* returns true if successful, false otherwise.
*/
-static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
+static __always_inline bool __consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ unsigned int nr_pages,
+ unsigned int nr_sock)
{
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
uint8_t stock_pages;
+ int stock_sock = 0;
bool ret = false;
int i;
@@ -2144,7 +2149,19 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
stock_pages -= nr_pages;
WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i], stock_pages);
- if (unlikely(!stock_pages)) {
+
+ if (nr_sock) {
+ stock_sock = stock->nr_sock[i] + nr_sock;
+
+ if (likely(stock_sock < (int)MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i], stock_sock);
+ stock_sock = 0;
+ } else {
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i], 0);
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(!stock_pages && !stock->nr_sock[i])) {
css_put(&memcg->css);
WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached[i], NULL);
}
@@ -2155,9 +2172,17 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
local_unlock(&memcg_stock.lock);
+ if (unlikely(stock_sock))
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, stock_sock);
+
return ret;
}
+static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
+{
+ return __consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages, 0);
+}
+
static void memcg_uncharge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
{
page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, nr_pages);
@@ -2172,6 +2197,7 @@ static void drain_stock(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock, int i)
{
struct mem_cgroup *old = stock->cached[i];
uint8_t stock_pages;
+ int stock_sock;
if (!old)
return;
@@ -2182,6 +2208,12 @@ static void drain_stock(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock, int i)
WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i], 0);
}
+ stock_sock = stock->nr_sock[i];
+ if (stock_sock) {
+ mod_memcg_state(old, MEMCG_SOCK, stock_sock);
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i], 0);
+ }
+
css_put(&old->css);
WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached[i], NULL);
}
@@ -2226,12 +2258,15 @@ static void drain_local_obj_stock(struct work_struct *dummy)
local_unlock(&obj_stock.lock);
}
-static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
+static __always_inline void __refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ unsigned int nr_pages,
+ unsigned int nr_sock)
{
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
struct mem_cgroup *cached;
uint8_t stock_pages;
int empty_slot = -1;
+ int stock_sock = 0;
int i;
/*
@@ -2250,7 +2285,7 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
* lock the percpu memcg_stock.lock, uncharge memcg directly.
*/
memcg_uncharge(memcg, nr_pages);
- return;
+ goto update_sock;
}
stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
@@ -2264,10 +2299,26 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
stock_pages = stock->nr_pages[i] + nr_pages;
WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i], stock_pages);
+
+ if (nr_sock) {
+ stock_sock = stock->nr_sock[i] - nr_sock;
+
+ if (likely(stock_sock > -(int)MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i], stock_sock);
+ stock_sock = 0;
+ } else {
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i], 0);
+ }
+ }
+
if (unlikely(stock_pages > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH))
drain_stock(stock, i);
local_unlock(&memcg_stock.lock);
+
+ if (unlikely(stock_sock))
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, stock_sock);
+
return;
}
@@ -2284,6 +2335,15 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
WRITE_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i], nr_pages);
local_unlock(&memcg_stock.lock);
+
+update_sock:
+ if (nr_sock)
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, -nr_sock);
+}
+
+static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
+{
+ __refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages, 0);
}
static bool is_memcg_drain_needed(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
@@ -2299,7 +2359,8 @@ static bool is_memcg_drain_needed(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
if (!memcg)
continue;
- if (READ_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i]) &&
+ if ((READ_ONCE(stock->nr_pages[i]) ||
+ READ_ONCE(stock->nr_sock[i])) &&
mem_cgroup_is_descendant(memcg, root_memcg)) {
flush = true;
break;
@@ -5629,6 +5690,9 @@ bool mem_cgroup_sk_charge(const struct sock *sk, unsigned int nr_pages,
if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
return memcg1_charge_skmem(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask);
+ if (likely(__consume_stock(memcg, nr_pages, nr_pages)))
+ return true;
+
if (try_charge_memcg(memcg, gfp_mask, nr_pages) == 0) {
mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, nr_pages);
return true;
@@ -5651,9 +5715,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_sk_uncharge(const struct sock *sk, unsigned int nr_pages)
return;
}
- mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_SOCK, -nr_pages);
-
- refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages);
+ __refill_stock(memcg, nr_pages, nr_pages);
}
void mem_cgroup_flush_workqueue(void)
--
2.56.0.212.g129ede20d9-goog
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 5:27 [PATCH 0/5] memcg: Batch mod_memcg_state() for MEMCG_SOCK Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-16 5:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] memcg: Remove unnecessary READ_ONCE() under memcg_stock.lock Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-16 5:27 ` [PATCH 2/5] memcg: Reduce nesting in consume_stock() and refill_stock() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-16 5:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] memcg: Annotate slow paths " Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-16 5:27 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima [this message]
2026-10-16 5:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] selftests: cgroup: Deflake test_memcg_sock() in test_memcontrol.c Kuniyuki Iwashima
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