From nobody Wed Feb 11 17:41:36 2026 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 8FAB1C6FD1F for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229684AbjCMQ3d (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:29:33 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50356 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229968AbjCMQ3D (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:29:03 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D4007A916 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:27:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1678724866; 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=tZRdfptRFY5Vlp762UsZ6/anX9gl/kIpoSRft9xlHEw=; b=LkVeQsIpg4eov5ys/gCa7TqaVVh+yMyluryLRj681wNyA6jewTXz+Fkz/MioR1Fx8SYZ0j 0LS9cf+YPsUJV/tjewCILWYjvcXGYltv41i7YBH5y9+/z6T9v5I/pI5+Ny64JoGTwXb6+1 U+EfEGo32/ZlxVA0lHVsTgOO82uiBHw= 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-126-Z4BMmYaWPeK5kERbohyfSA-1; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 12:27:43 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Z4BMmYaWPeK5kERbohyfSA-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 0022B3814949; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:27:42 +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 C6F47C164E7; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by tpad.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 38FD44038AB8A; Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:26:44 -0300 (-03) Message-ID: <20230313162634.509267576@redhat.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:25:17 -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 , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: [PATCH v5 10/12] mm/vmstat: switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely References: <20230313162507.032200398@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.8 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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=20 vmstats folding remotely. This fixes the following two problems: 1. A customer provided some 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()) 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- linux-vmstat-remote.orig/mm/vmstat.c +++ linux-vmstat-remote/mm/vmstat.c @@ -2043,6 +2043,23 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_ =20 static DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK(shepherd, vmstat_shepherd); =20 +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL +/* Flush counters remotely if CPU uses cmpxchg to update its per-CPU count= ers */ +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 =20 static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void) {