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mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations
authorKaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu>
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:42:27 +0000 (17:42 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 4 Sep 2024 04:15:36 +0000 (21:15 -0700)
commitf77f0c7514789577125c1b2df145703161736359
tree1d2bbd2f91088bf89ac2dd3280ec2dc1f687ce62
parent78788c3ede90727ffb7b17287468a08b4e78ee3d
mm,memcg: provide per-cgroup counters for NUMA balancing operations

The ability to observe the demotion and promotion decisions made by the
kernel on a per-cgroup basis is important for monitoring and tuning
containerized workloads on machines equipped with tiered memory.

Different containers in the system may experience drastically different
memory tiering actions that cannot be distinguished from the global
counters alone.

For example, a container running a workload that has a much hotter memory
accesses will likely see more promotions and fewer demotions, potentially
depriving a colocated container of top tier memory to such an extent that
its performance degrades unacceptably.

For another example, some containers may exhibit longer periods between
data reuse, causing much more numa_hint_faults than numa_pages_migrated.
In this case, tuning hot_threshold_ms may be appropriate, but the signal
can easily be lost if only global counters are available.

In the long term, we hope to introduce per-cgroup control of promotion and
demotion actions to implement memory placement policies in tiering.

This patch set adds seven counters to memory.stat in a cgroup:
numa_pages_migrated, numa_pte_updates, numa_hint_faults, pgdemote_kswapd,
pgdemote_khugepaged, pgdemote_direct and pgpromote_success.  pgdemote_*
and pgpromote_success are also available in memory.numa_stat.

count_memcg_events_mm() is added to count multiple event occurrences at
once, and get_mem_cgroup_from_folio() is added because we need to get a
reference to the memcg of a folio before it's migrated to track
numa_pages_migrated.  The accounting of PGDEMOTE_* is moved to
shrink_inactive_list() before being changed to per-cgroup.

[kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu: add documentation of the memcg counters in cgroup-v2.rst]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814235122.252309-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814174227.30639-1-kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu
Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
include/linux/memcontrol.h
include/linux/vmstat.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/memory.c
mm/mempolicy.c
mm/migrate.c
mm/vmscan.c