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[2003:cb:c706:4e00:31ad:5274:e21c:b59]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-36b367fc624sm14709673f8f.57.2024.07.30.07.35.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:35:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: split underutilized THPs To: Usama Arif , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@surriel.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, yuzhao@google.com, baohua@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com, rppt@kernel.org, willy@infradead.org, cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com References: <20240730125346.1580150-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com> From: David Hildenbrand Autocrypt: addr=david@redhat.com; keydata= xsFNBFXLn5EBEAC+zYvAFJxCBY9Tr1xZgcESmxVNI/0ffzE/ZQOiHJl6mGkmA1R7/uUpiCjJ dBrn+lhhOYjjNefFQou6478faXE6o2AhmebqT4KiQoUQFV4R7y1KMEKoSyy8hQaK1umALTdL QZLQMzNE74ap+GDK0wnacPQFpcG1AE9RMq3aeErY5tujekBS32jfC/7AnH7I0v1v1TbbK3Gp XNeiN4QroO+5qaSr0ID2sz5jtBLRb15RMre27E1ImpaIv2Jw8NJgW0k/D1RyKCwaTsgRdwuK Kx/Y91XuSBdz0uOyU/S8kM1+ag0wvsGlpBVxRR/xw/E8M7TEwuCZQArqqTCmkG6HGcXFT0V9 PXFNNgV5jXMQRwU0O/ztJIQqsE5LsUomE//bLwzj9IVsaQpKDqW6TAPjcdBDPLHvriq7kGjt WhVhdl0qEYB8lkBEU7V2Yb+SYhmhpDrti9Fq1EsmhiHSkxJcGREoMK/63r9WLZYI3+4W2rAc UucZa4OT27U5ZISjNg3Ev0rxU5UH2/pT4wJCfxwocmqaRr6UYmrtZmND89X0KigoFD/XSeVv jwBRNjPAubK9/k5NoRrYqztM9W6sJqrH8+UWZ1Idd/DdmogJh0gNC0+N42Za9yBRURfIdKSb B3JfpUqcWwE7vUaYrHG1nw54pLUoPG6sAA7Mehl3nd4pZUALHwARAQABzSREYXZpZCBIaWxk ZW5icmFuZCA8ZGF2aWRAcmVkaGF0LmNvbT7CwZgEEwEIAEICGwMGCwkIBwMCBhUIAgkKCwQW AgMBAh4BAheAAhkBFiEEG9nKrXNcTDpGDfzKTd4Q9wD/g1oFAl8Ox4kFCRKpKXgACgkQTd4Q 9wD/g1oHcA//a6Tj7SBNjFNM1iNhWUo1lxAja0lpSodSnB2g4FCZ4R61SBR4l/psBL73xktp rDHrx4aSpwkRP6Epu6mLvhlfjmkRG4OynJ5HG1gfv7RJJfnUdUM1z5kdS8JBrOhMJS2c/gPf wv1TGRq2XdMPnfY2o0CxRqpcLkx4vBODvJGl2mQyJF/gPepdDfcT8/PY9BJ7FL6Hrq1gnAo4 3Iv9qV0JiT2wmZciNyYQhmA1V6dyTRiQ4YAc31zOo2IM+xisPzeSHgw3ONY/XhYvfZ9r7W1l pNQdc2G+o4Di9NPFHQQhDw3YTRR1opJaTlRDzxYxzU6ZnUUBghxt9cwUWTpfCktkMZiPSDGd KgQBjnweV2jw9UOTxjb4LXqDjmSNkjDdQUOU69jGMUXgihvo4zhYcMX8F5gWdRtMR7DzW/YE BgVcyxNkMIXoY1aYj6npHYiNQesQlqjU6azjbH70/SXKM5tNRplgW8TNprMDuntdvV9wNkFs 9TyM02V5aWxFfI42+aivc4KEw69SE9KXwC7FSf5wXzuTot97N9Phj/Z3+jx443jo2NR34XgF 89cct7wJMjOF7bBefo0fPPZQuIma0Zym71cP61OP/i11ahNye6HGKfxGCOcs5wW9kRQEk8P9 M/k2wt3mt/fCQnuP/mWutNPt95w9wSsUyATLmtNrwccz63XOwU0EVcufkQEQAOfX3n0g0fZz Bgm/S2zF/kxQKCEKP8ID+Vz8sy2GpDvveBq4H2Y34XWsT1zLJdvqPI4af4ZSMxuerWjXbVWb T6d4odQIG0fKx4F8NccDqbgHeZRNajXeeJ3R7gAzvWvQNLz4piHrO/B4tf8svmRBL0ZB5P5A 2uhdwLU3NZuK22zpNn4is87BPWF8HhY0L5fafgDMOqnf4guJVJPYNPhUFzXUbPqOKOkL8ojk CXxkOFHAbjstSK5Ca3fKquY3rdX3DNo+EL7FvAiw1mUtS+5GeYE+RMnDCsVFm/C7kY8c2d0G NWkB9pJM5+mnIoFNxy7YBcldYATVeOHoY4LyaUWNnAvFYWp08dHWfZo9WCiJMuTfgtH9tc75 7QanMVdPt6fDK8UUXIBLQ2TWr/sQKE9xtFuEmoQGlE1l6bGaDnnMLcYu+Asp3kDT0w4zYGsx 5r6XQVRH4+5N6eHZiaeYtFOujp5n+pjBaQK7wUUjDilPQ5QMzIuCL4YjVoylWiBNknvQWBXS lQCWmavOT9sttGQXdPCC5ynI+1ymZC1ORZKANLnRAb0NH/UCzcsstw2TAkFnMEbo9Zu9w7Kv AxBQXWeXhJI9XQssfrf4Gusdqx8nPEpfOqCtbbwJMATbHyqLt7/oz/5deGuwxgb65pWIzufa N7eop7uh+6bezi+rugUI+w6DABEBAAHCwXwEGAEIACYCGwwWIQQb2cqtc1xMOkYN/MpN3hD3 AP+DWgUCXw7HsgUJEqkpoQAKCRBN3hD3AP+DWrrpD/4qS3dyVRxDcDHIlmguXjC1Q5tZTwNB boaBTPHSy/Nksu0eY7x6HfQJ3xajVH32Ms6t1trDQmPx2iP5+7iDsb7OKAb5eOS8h+BEBDeq 3ecsQDv0fFJOA9ag5O3LLNk+3x3q7e0uo06XMaY7UHS341ozXUUI7wC7iKfoUTv03iO9El5f XpNMx/YrIMduZ2+nd9Di7o5+KIwlb2mAB9sTNHdMrXesX8eBL6T9b+MZJk+mZuPxKNVfEQMQ a5SxUEADIPQTPNvBewdeI80yeOCrN+Zzwy/Mrx9EPeu59Y5vSJOx/z6OUImD/GhX7Xvkt3kq Er5KTrJz3++B6SH9pum9PuoE/k+nntJkNMmQpR4MCBaV/J9gIOPGodDKnjdng+mXliF3Ptu6 3oxc2RCyGzTlxyMwuc2U5Q7KtUNTdDe8T0uE+9b8BLMVQDDfJjqY0VVqSUwImzTDLX9S4g/8 kC4HRcclk8hpyhY2jKGluZO0awwTIMgVEzmTyBphDg/Gx7dZU1Xf8HFuE+UZ5UDHDTnwgv7E th6RC9+WrhDNspZ9fJjKWRbveQgUFCpe1sa77LAw+XFrKmBHXp9ZVIe90RMe2tRL06BGiRZr jPrnvUsUUsjRoRNJjKKA/REq+sAnhkNPPZ/NNMjaZ5b8Tovi8C0tmxiCHaQYqj7G2rgnT0kt WNyWQQ== Organization: Red Hat In-Reply-To: <20240730125346.1580150-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: r5ktwt7zwke1sqrynpe98fh6xrskx9t8 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: DCE4C20031 X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam08 X-HE-Tag: 1722350142-339688 X-HE-Meta: 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 JoXhHegX KsyWuDOM/X8Qek5EhrSwWkqCWckDmd3icjS06MO1FZcL9He/48hTRBi5jDGu9PYe7RS6pNiTHJSxCFPZDGArYmRC/jdI456u44LHaJE1/sMNcv+KsmOSrjq2aWRibxwJVA9DlNeyYB8wDQQq44dQFliWARsYwgY6gZxgA8yJxziK/4PR/aTi91ybEW9oMkgJwzMy7PiPdGu0vncGFJlvmoCgVc6CCtIoStnx73l1IFSht182L9Q9TXBeaDEcchXAb9Q+wNgNEU7oaJ79vLimx+QfCOxD7f1jayx7bfw7PiviM/pgJSsQf8kqCleSFRP3taMq3pUDbRJXMYr0wnn8sQHoqXdM2thakT5vfoZDfEZZmh8YDq+L1hjp76AgbpYHNezmxYn9jszAJNWbqiIxu65NvCwyuIRRBfkbhl4uzXhm1GBI8wtkUHpTju8asdo214771 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 30.07.24 14:45, 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).) As shared previously, there is one issue with uffd (even when currently not active for a VMA!), where we must not zap present page table entries. Something that is always possible (assuming no GUP pins of course, which) is replacing the zero-filled subpages by shared zeropages. Is that being done in this patch set already, or are we creating pte_none() entries? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb