From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05472C47257 for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 17:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1CE208DB for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 17:09:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1588871345; bh=f1TwzsHifZwaBGqk5i+/qCs3tR+eDWVT3oSKd0rEp9w=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Reply-To:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID: From; b=Kuv97qNBO2eFQ46DBfKLZeVqYzSjm9Ny5LVPLUxCZls299U1EWvrBDDnu2UxNlSeo TMReAZb627gzv4A1BfCi6zqRUk4FAnsf+aLO6vawL75vP/5kFzGYql95NAkWp6gWMk y4gJ1Mr/zsiwqk+Fme4pfXUM8NfKLSoJ/dRPxUN4= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728063AbgEGRJF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 13:09:05 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44260 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725949AbgEGRJE (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 13:09:04 -0400 Received: from paulmck-ThinkPad-P72.home (50-39-105-78.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.39.105.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A724D2083B; Thu, 7 May 2020 17:09:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1588871343; bh=f1TwzsHifZwaBGqk5i+/qCs3tR+eDWVT3oSKd0rEp9w=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Reply-To:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=RZRzDYTconGM8jrgie4pVwTtZQm/pSZMyS3fMg4QyX5maLm1mJ7n1J49L2YAfFH03 B8ynYLezlwL6eusMBdwRB4VO4VD4ziiYKIvee5GLmqX1SPebQBfTi/uvr/zfxpieQq oOas80p2NL4ZikvqxD1Raqir+BJC9MYVdqstGkvg= Received: by paulmck-ThinkPad-P72.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9249A35231A1; Thu, 7 May 2020 10:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 10:09:03 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu] Add shrinker to shift to fast/inefficient GP mode Message-ID: <20200507170903.GR2869@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> Reply-To: paulmck@kernel.org References: <20200507004240.GA9156@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <20200506175535.d4986a4d497071a410b69765@linux-foundation.org> <20200507170006.GA155220@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200507170006.GA155220@cmpxchg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:00:06PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:55:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 6 May 2020 17:42:40 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > > > > This commit adds a shrinker so as to inform RCU when memory is scarce. > > > RCU responds by shifting into the same fast and inefficient mode that is > > > used in the presence of excessive numbers of RCU callbacks. RCU remains > > > in this state for one-tenth of a second, though this time window can be > > > extended by another call to the shrinker. > > We may be able to use shrinkers here, but merely being invoked does > not carry a reliable distress signal. > > Shrinkers get invoked whenever vmscan runs. It's a useful indicator > for when to age an auxiliary LRU list - test references, clear and > rotate or reclaim stale entries. The urgency, and what can and cannot > be considered "stale", is encoded in the callback frequency and scan > counts, and meant to be relative to the VM's own rate of aging: "I've > tested X percent of mine for recent use, now you go and test the same > share of your pool." It doesn't translate well to other > interpretations of the callbacks, although people have tried. Would it make sense for RCU to interpret two invocations within (say) 100ms of each other as indicating urgency? (Hey, I had to ask!) > > > If it proves feasible, a later commit might add a function call directly > > > indicating the end of the period of scarce memory. > > > > (Cc David Chinner, who often has opinions on shrinkers ;)) > > > > It's a bit abusive of the intent of the slab shrinkers, but I don't > > immediately see a problem with it. Always returning 0 from > > ->scan_objects might cause a problem in some situations(?). > > > > Perhaps we should have a formal "system getting low on memory, please > > do something" notification API. > > It's tricky to find a useful definition of what low on memory > means. In the past we've used sc->priority cutoffs, the vmpressure > interface (reclaimed/scanned - reclaim efficiency cutoffs), oom > notifiers (another reclaim efficiency cutoff). But none of these > reliably capture "distress", and they vary highly between different > hardware setups. It can be hard to trigger OOM itself on fast IO > devices, even when the machine is way past useful (where useful is > somewhat subjective to the user). Userspace OOM implementations that > consider userspace health (also subjective) are getting more common. > > > How significant is this? How much memory can RCU consume? > > I think if rcu can end up consuming a significant share of memory, one > way that may work would be to do proper shrinker integration and track > the age of its objects relative to the age of other allocations in the > system. I.e. toss them all on a clock list with "new" bits and shrink > them at VM velocity. If the shrinker sees objects with new bit set, > clear and rotate. If it sees objects without them, we know rcu_heads > outlive cache pages etc. and should probably cycle faster too. It would be easy for RCU to pass back (or otherwise use) the age of the current grace period, if that would help. Tracking the age of individual callbacks is out of the question due to memory overhead, but RCU could approximate this via statistical sampling. Comparing this to grace-period durations could give information as to whether making grace periods go faster would be helpful. But, yes, it would be better to have an elusive unambiguous indication of distress. ;-) Thanx, Paul