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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA479C05027 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230154AbjCNTCZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:02:25 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49688 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231154AbjCNTB6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:01:58 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64D8B11168 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:01:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1678820473; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: references:references; bh=Nr9fYbpF3v+q6jpxCLVFeOy0r5BagqTS2hiKgCt5CBQ=; b=hjFoXZpfMW9p8ngb+SLkNjE4Xaiq2/eCQ0HevZBtNPzXkeS0t3UJfbjDsHgStlUfQufBOm 5cWjCD6o7xLlmMvGRRyIrviiLwtjxNx+B0677rekjOg5vOZdGLiJZpmvkFBG4qL/v3nzLd Z45jHcaeLNNqixTFOQCqjNHL+SWmmjs= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-117-FUxLZ_pZN0q1wQRTUiKORQ-1; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:01:06 -0400 X-MC-Unique: FUxLZ_pZN0q1wQRTUiKORQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1088728004F0; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tpad.localdomain (ovpn-112-2.gru2.redhat.com [10.97.112.2]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9360C164E7; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by tpad.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 78F4D4039C294; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:00:44 -0300 (-03) Message-ID: <20230314185951.779596601@redhat.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:59:24 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Aaron Tomlin , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Russell King , Huacai Chen , Heiko Carstens , x86@kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka , Michal Hocko , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: [PATCH v6 10/12] mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely References: <20230314185914.836510860@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.8 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Now that the counters are modified via cmpxchg both CPU locally (via the account functions), and remotely (via cpu_vm_stats_fold), its possible to switch vmstat_shepherd to perform the per-CPU vmstats folding remotely. This fixes the following two problems: 1. A customer provided evidence which indicates that the idle tick was stopped; albeit, CPU-specific vmstat counters still remained populated. Thus one can only assume quiet_vmstat() was not invoked on return to the idle loop. If I understand correctly, I suspect this divergence might erroneously prevent a reclaim attempt by kswapd. If the number of zone specific free pages are below their per-cpu drift value then zone_page_state_snapshot() is used to compute a more accurate view of the aforementioned statistic. Thus any task blocked on the NUMA node specific pfmemalloc_wait queue will be unable to make significant progress via direct reclaim unless it is killed after being woken up by kswapd (see throttle_direct_reclaim()). The evidence is: - The process was trapped in throttle_direct_reclaim(). The function wait_event_killable() was called to wait condition allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) for current node to be true. The allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) examined the number of free pages on the node by zone_page_state() which just returns value in zone->vm_stat[NR_FREE_PAGES]. - On node #1, zone->vm_stat[NR_FREE_PAGES] was 0. However, the freelist on this node was not empty. - This inconsistent of vmstat value was caused by percpu vmstat on nohz_full cpus. Every increment/decrement of vmstat is performed on percpu vmstat counter at first, then pooled diffs are cumulated to the zone's vmstat counter in timely manner. However, on nohz_full cpus (in case of this customer's system, 48 of 52 cpus) these pooled diffs were not cumulated once the cpu had no event on it so that the cpu started sleeping infinitely. I checked percpu vmstat and found there were total 69 counts not cumulated to the zone's vmstat counter yet. - In this situation, kswapd did not help the trapped process. In pgdat_balanced(), zone_wakermark_ok_safe() examined the number of free pages on the node by zone_page_state_snapshot() which checks pending counts on percpu vmstat. Therefore kswapd could know there were 69 free pages correctly. Since zone->_watermark = {8, 20, 32}, kswapd did not work because 69 was greater than 32 as high watermark. 2. With a SCHED_FIFO task that busy loops on a given CPU, and kworker for that CPU at SCHED_OTHER priority, queuing work to sync per-vmstats will either cause that work to never execute, or stalld (i.e. stall daemon) boosts kworker priority which causes a latency violation Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Index: linux-vmstat-remote/mm/vmstat.c =================================================================== --- linux-vmstat-remote.orig/mm/vmstat.c +++ linux-vmstat-remote/mm/vmstat.c @@ -2043,6 +2043,23 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_ static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(shepherd, vmstat_shepherd); +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL +/* Flush counters remotely if CPU uses cmpxchg to update its per-CPU counters */ +static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w) +{ + int cpu; + + cpus_read_lock(); + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { + cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu); + cond_resched(); + } + cpus_read_unlock(); + + schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, + round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); +} +#else static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w) { int cpu; @@ -2062,6 +2079,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_ schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); } +#endif static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void) {