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 39B5FC77B7A for ; Tue, 30 May 2023 14:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231237AbjE3O5s (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2023 10:57:48 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34708 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232265AbjE3O5k (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2023 10:57:40 -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 2A198BE for ; Tue, 30 May 2023 07:56:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1685458614; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc; bh=o+BZyclEIaiwakWhfStlzgKt7LvIsSshcDJNqqvHmzs=; b=jQlCzn5Jc3Xe5DL3XXO27G6x5hjYui8aBriQiRz0RGPzwrjAShr8F//E3L5Hw2Zt1MjTEX HC6ZGic44RsMD1CgAVPkHANoaZ4f/yTYhSwI/4FxH/s2bnSh8sZV/2PA742M6dwkPjepX0 RvxbhOwsqcBSt2WbTlb31m+64A+UrZ0= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-473-XcWcgHydOZqpI-U3YQbJBg-1; Tue, 30 May 2023 10:56:51 -0400 X-MC-Unique: XcWcgHydOZqpI-U3YQbJBg-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FBD380231B; Tue, 30 May 2023 14:56:51 +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 0ED2C40C6EC4; Tue, 30 May 2023 14:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by tpad.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 442AE40195510; Tue, 30 May 2023 11:56:33 -0300 (-03) Message-ID: <20230530145234.968927611@redhat.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 11:52:34 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Aaron Tomlin , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka , Michal Hocko Subject: [PATCH 0/4] vmstat bug fixes for nohz_full CPUs X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.2 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch series addresses the following two problems: 1. A customer provided evidence indicating that a process was stalled in direct reclaim: - 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 task that busy loops on a given CPU, the kworker interruption to execute vmstat_update is undesired and may exceed latency thresholds for certain applications. First issue is solved by using _snapshot version of the counters on allow_direct_reclaim. Second issue is fixed by disabling periodic vmstat updates for nohz_full CPUs. Thanks to Aaron Tomlin for diagnosing issue 1 and writing the initial patch series. Performance details for the kworker interruption: oslat 1094.456862: sys_mlock(start: 7f7ed0000b60, len: 1000) oslat 1094.456971: workqueue_queue_work: ... function=vmstat_update ... oslat 1094.456974: sched_switch: prev_comm=oslat ... ==> next_comm=kworker/5:1 ... kworker 1094.456978: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/5:1 ==> next_comm=oslat ... The example above shows an additional 7us for the oslat -> kworker -> oslat switches. In the case of a virtualized CPU, and the vmstat_update interruption in the host (of a qemu-kvm vcpu), the latency penalty observed in the guest is higher than 50us, violating the acceptable latency threshold for certain applications. include/linux/workqueue.h | 1 + kernel/workqueue.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- mm/vmstat.c | 11 +++++++++++ 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)