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Revision 26fe616844491a41a1abc02e29f7a9d1ec2f8ddb authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki on 15 June 2011, 22:08:45 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 16 June 2011, 03:04:01 UTC
For performance, memory cgroup caches some "charge" from res_counter into
per cpu cache.  This works well but because it's cache, it needs to be
flushed in some cases.  Typical cases are

   1. when someone hit limit.

   2. when rmdir() is called and need to charges to be 0.

But "1" has problem.

Recently, with large SMP machines, we see many kworker runs because of
flushing memcg's cache.  Bad things in implementation are that even if a
cpu contains a cache for memcg not related to a memcg which hits limit,
drain code is called.

This patch does
        A) check percpu cache contains a useful data or not.
        B) check other asynchronous percpu draining doesn't run.
        C) don't call local cpu callback.

(*)This patch avoid changing the calling condition with hard-limit.

When I run "cat 1Gfile > /dev/null" under 300M limit memcg,

[Before]
13767 kamezawa  20   0 98.6m  424  416 D 10.0  0.0   0:00.61 cat
   58 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.6  0.0   0:00.09 kworker/2:1
   60 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.6  0.0   0:00.08 kworker/4:1
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.02 kworker/0:0
   57 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/1:1
   61 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/5:1
   62 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/6:1
   63 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/7:1

[After]
 2676 root      20   0 98.6m  416  416 D  9.3  0.0   0:00.87 cat
 2626 kamezawa  20   0 15192 1312  920 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.28 top
    1 root      20   0 19384 1496 1204 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.66 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make percpu_charge_mutex static, tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 26fe616844491a41a1abc02e29f7a9d1ec2f8ddb authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki on 15 June 2011, 22:08:45 UTC
memcg: fix percpu cached charge draining frequency
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