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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>
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:16:22 +0000 (15:16 +1000)
commitdb991d4f694495e0597855be8ed1330eaf3038d5
treeeb896c766a146fb7fd49342d636a1c66a05644db
parent23253b673a17c27036a75b9febd5be1c7a7680ef
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