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While back-porting Johannes Weiner's patch "mm: memcg-aware global
authorAndrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:47:41 +0000 (09:47 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 5 Sep 2011 07:02:32 +0000 (17:02 +1000)
commitaf99af330171f8c04d27a912e5622d46bc8bc0d2
tree7e04bda68b3e83e325f4fa4d5714071fb173bc7a
parentd6a7f85bb2c6c353a951ac48c236f4d63a09790e
While back-porting Johannes Weiner's patch "mm: memcg-aware global
reclaim" for an internal effort, we noticed a significant performance
regression during page-reclaim heavy workloads due to high contention of
the ss->id_lock.  This lock protects idr map, and serializes calls to
idr_get_next() in css_get_next() (which is used during the memcg hierarchy
walk).  Since idr_get_next() is just doing a look up, we need only
serialize it with respect to idr_remove()/idr_get_new().  By making the
ss->id_lock a rwlock, contention is greatly reduced and performance
improves.

Tested: cat a 256m file from a ramdisk in a 128m container 50 times on
each core (one file + container per core) in parallel on a NUMA machine.
Result is the time for the test to complete in 1 of the containers.  Both
kernels included Johannes' memcg-aware global reclaim patches.

Before rwlock patch: 1710.778s
After rwlock patch: 152.227s

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c