mm: multi-gen LRU: optimize multiple memcgs
When multiple memcgs are available, it is possible to make better choices
based on generations and tiers and therefore improve the overall
performance under global memory pressure. This patch adds a rudimentary
optimization to select memcgs that can drop single-use unmapped clean
pages first. Doing so reduces the chance of going into the aging path or
swapping. These two decisions can be costly.
A typical example that benefits from this optimization is a server running
mixed types of workloads, e.g., heavy anon workload in one memcg and heavy
buffered I/O workload in the other.
Though this optimization can be applied to both kswapd and direct reclaim,
it is only added to kswapd to keep the patchset manageable. Later
improvements will cover the direct reclaim path.
Server benchmark results:
Mixed workloads:
fio (buffered I/O): +[19, 21]%
IOPS BW
patch1-8: 1880k 7343MiB/s
patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s
memcached (anon): +[119, 123]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-8: 862768.65 33514.68
patch1-9:
1911022.12 74234.54
Mixed workloads:
fio (buffered I/O): +[75, 77]%
IOPS BW
5.19-rc1: 1279k 4996MiB/s
patch1-9: 2252k 8796MiB/s
memcached (anon): +[13, 15]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
5.19-rc1:
1673524.04 65008.87
patch1-9:
1911022.12 74234.54
Configurations:
(changes since patch 6)
cat mixed.sh
modprobe brd rd_nr=2 rd_size=
56623104
swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/ram0
swapon /dev/ram0
mkfs.ext4 /dev/ram1
mount -t ext4 /dev/ram1 /mnt
memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
-P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
--key-maximum=
50000000 --key-pattern=P:P -c 1 -t 36 \
--ratio 1:0 --pipeline 8 -d 2000
fio -name=mglru --numjobs=36 --directory=/mnt --size=1408m \
--buffered=1 --ioengine=io_uring --iodepth=128 \
--iodepth_batch_submit=32 --iodepth_batch_complete=32 \
--rw=randread --random_distribution=random --norandommap \
--time_based --ramp_time=10m --runtime=90m --group_reporting &
pid=$!
sleep 200
memtier_benchmark -S /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock \
-P memcache_binary -n allkeys --key-minimum=1 \
--key-maximum=
50000000 --key-pattern=R:R -c 1 -t 36 \
--ratio 0:1 --pipeline 8 --randomize --distinct-client-seed
kill -INT $pid
wait
Client benchmark results:
no change (CONFIG_MEMCG=n)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220815071332.627393-10-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>