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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: EA24640016 X-Stat-Signature: ikebi5nwjuxbzw1agae48rpei393ddut X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1722527234-221539 X-HE-Meta: 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 ocF1huyd 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 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 01.08.24 08:09, Yu Zhao wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 6:54 AM Usama Arif wrote: >> >> The current upstream default policy for THP is always. However, Meta >> uses madvise in production as the current THP=always policy vastly >> overprovisions THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas, resulting in >> excessive memory pressure and premature OOM killing. >> Using madvise + relying on khugepaged has certain drawbacks over >> THP=always. Using madvise hints mean THPs aren't "transparent" and >> require userspace changes. Waiting for khugepaged to scan memory and >> collapse pages into THP can be slow and unpredictable in terms of performance >> (i.e. you dont know when the collapse will happen), while production >> environments require predictable performance. If there is enough memory >> available, its better for both performance and predictability to have >> a THP from fault time, i.e. THP=always rather than wait for khugepaged >> to collapse it, and deal with sparsely populated THPs when the system is >> running out of memory. >> >> This patch-series is an attempt to mitigate the issue of running out of >> memory when THP is always enabled. During runtime whenever a THP is being >> faulted in or collapsed by khugepaged, the THP is added to a list. >> Whenever memory reclaim happens, the kernel runs the deferred_split >> shrinker which goes through the list and checks if the THP was underutilized, >> i.e. how many of the base 4K pages of the entire THP were zero-filled. >> If this number goes above a certain threshold, the shrinker will attempt >> to split that THP. Then at remap time, the pages that were zero-filled are >> not remapped, hence saving memory. This method avoids the downside of >> wasting memory in areas where THP is sparsely filled when THP is always >> enabled, while still providing the upside THPs like reduced TLB misses without >> having to use madvise. >> >> Meta production workloads that were CPU bound (>99% CPU utilzation) were >> tested with THP shrinker. The results after 2 hours are as follows: >> >> | THP=madvise | THP=always | THP=always >> | | | + shrinker series >> | | | + max_ptes_none=409 >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Performance improvement | - | +1.8% | +1.7% >> (over THP=madvise) | | | >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Memory usage | 54.6G | 58.8G (+7.7%) | 55.9G (+2.4%) >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> max_ptes_none=409 means that any THP that has more than 409 out of 512 >> (80%) zero filled filled pages will be split. >> >> To test out the patches, the below commands without the shrinker will >> invoke OOM killer immediately and kill stress, but will not fail with >> the shrinker: >> >> echo 450 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none >> mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test >> echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs >> echo 20M > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.max >> echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.swap.max >> # allocate twice memory.max for each stress worker and touch 40/512 of >> # each THP, i.e. vm-stride 50K. >> # With the shrinker, max_ptes_none of 470 and below won't invoke OOM >> # killer. >> # Without the shrinker, OOM killer is invoked immediately irrespective >> # of max_ptes_none value and kill stress. >> stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 40M --vm-stride 50K >> >> Patches 1-2 add back helper functions that were previously removed >> to operate on page lists (needed by patch 3). >> Patch 3 is an optimization to free zapped tail pages rather than >> waiting for page reclaim or migration. >> Patch 4 is a prerequisite for THP shrinker to not remap zero-filled >> subpages when splitting THP. >> Patches 6 adds support for THP shrinker. >> >> (This patch-series restarts the work on having a THP shrinker in kernel >> originally done in >> https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1667454613.git.alexlzhu@fb.com/. >> The THP shrinker in this series is significantly different than the >> original one, hence its labelled v1 (although the prerequisite to not >> remap clean subpages is the same).) >> >> Alexander Zhu (1): >> mm: add selftests to split_huge_page() to verify unmap/zap of zero >> pages >> >> Usama Arif (3): >> Revert "memcg: remove mem_cgroup_uncharge_list()" >> Revert "mm: remove free_unref_page_list()" >> mm: split underutilized THPs >> >> Yu Zhao (2): >> mm: free zapped tail pages when splitting isolated thp >> mm: don't remap unused subpages when splitting isolated thp > > I would recommend shatter [1] instead of splitting so that > 1) whoever underutilized their THPs get punished for the overhead; > 2) underutilized THPs are kept intact and can be reused by others. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/20240229183436.4110845-3-yuzhao@google.com/ > Do you have any plans to upstream the shattering also during "ordinary" deferred splitting? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb