2023-03-06 02:50:50

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().

Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <[email protected]>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f456f3b5049c..e066d974c27b 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -5206,7 +5206,7 @@ vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
* VM_FAULT_OOM), there is no need to kill anything.
* Just clean up the OOM state peacefully.
*/
- if (task_in_memcg_oom(current) && !(ret & VM_FAULT_OOM))
+ if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_OOM))
mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
}

--
2.25.1



2023-03-06 13:50:30

by David Hildenbrand

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().

"mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom
is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".

However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we
care about dropping that optimization?


--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


2023-03-07 02:37:41

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>
> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>
> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>
>

If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.

if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.

Thanks.

2023-03-07 02:49:11

by Matthew Wilcox

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
> >> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
> >
> > "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
> >
> > However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
> >
> >
>
> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>
> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.

I suggest you measure it.

2023-03-07 03:20:23

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>
>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>
>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>
>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>
> I suggest you measure it.

Ok, I'll make a simple test.

2023-03-08 09:04:40

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>
>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>
>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>
>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>
> I suggest you measure it.

test steps:
1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.

The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
is almost the same, about 2.3ms.


Attachments:
mmap_anon_test.c (946.00 B)

2023-03-08 09:15:46

by David Hildenbrand

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>
>
> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>>
>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>>
>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>>
>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>>
>> I suggest you measure it.
>
> test steps:
> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
>
> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.

I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages
in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).

Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did
you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more
digits ;) ).

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


2023-03-09 02:33:17

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/8 17:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>>>
>>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>>>
>>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>>>
>>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>>>
>>> I suggest you measure it.
>>
>> test steps:
>> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
>> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
>>
>> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
>> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.
>
> I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).

Yes, most of the time consumption is page allocation. MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE doesn't affect the result,so I just use one of them at will,
although no process share memory with it.

>
> Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more digits ;) ).
>

I'm sorry I got the measuring unit wrong,actually it is 2.3us for every page fault. The details are as follows.

without change
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cost time(ms) number of page fault time of page faults(ns)
599 262144 2285
590 262144 2251
595 262144 2270
595 262144 2270
594 262144 2266
597 262144 2277
596 262144 2274
598 262144 2281
594 262144 2266
598 262144 2281
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
average: 2272

with change
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cost time(ms) number of page fault time of page faults(ns)
600 262144 2289
597 262144 2277
596 262144 2274
596 262144 2274
597 262144 2277
595 262144 2270
598 262144 2281
588 262144 2243
596 262144 2274
598 262144 2281
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
average: 2274


2023-03-14 08:06:52

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/8 17:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>>>
>>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>>>
>>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>>>
>>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>>>
>>> I suggest you measure it.
>>
>> test steps:
>> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
>> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
>>
>> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
>> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.
>
> I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).
>
> Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more digits ;) ).
>

Hi Daivd, the details of test result were posted last week. Do you have any suggestions or more concerns about this change?

Thanks.

2023-03-14 09:10:07

by David Hildenbrand

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

On 14.03.23 09:05, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>
>
> On 2023/3/8 17:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>>>>
>>>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>>>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest you measure it.
>>>
>>> test steps:
>>> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
>>> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
>>>
>>> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
>>> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.
>>
>> I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).
>>
>> Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more digits ;) ).
>>
>
> Hi Daivd, the details of test result were posted last week. Do you have any suggestions or more concerns about this change?

No, I guess it really doesn't matter performance wise.

One valid question would be: why perform this change at all? The
redundancy doesn't seem to harm performance either.

If the change would obviously improve code readability it would be easy
to justify. I'm not convinced, that is the case, but maybe for others.

So FWIW, the change looks good to me and should not affect performance
in one way or the other. So no objections from my side ...

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


2023-03-14 10:31:51

by Haifeng Xu

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault



On 2023/3/14 17:09, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.03.23 09:05, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2023/3/8 17:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
>>>>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
>>>>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest you measure it.
>>>>
>>>> test steps:
>>>> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
>>>> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
>>>>
>>>> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
>>>> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.
>>>
>>> I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).
>>>
>>> Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more digits ;) ).
>>>
>>
>> Hi Daivd, the details of test result were posted last week. Do you have any suggestions or more concerns about this change?
>
> No, I guess it really doesn't matter performance wise.
>
> One valid question would be: why perform this change at all? The redundancy doesn't seem to harm performance either.
>
> If the change would obviously improve code readability it would be easy to justify. I'm not convinced, that is the case, but maybe for others.

Yes, this change doesn't optimize performance, just improve the code readability.
It seems that nobody ack this change, should I change the commit message and resend this patch?

Thanks.
>
> So FWIW, the change looks good to me and should not affect performance in one way or the other. So no objections from my side ...
>

2023-03-14 13:26:37

by Matthew Wilcox

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove redundant check in handle_mm_fault

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 06:29:24PM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>
>
> On 2023/3/14 17:09, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 14.03.23 09:05, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2023/3/8 17:13, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>> On 08.03.23 10:03, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2023/3/7 10:48, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:36:55AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2023/3/6 21:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 06.03.23 03:49, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >>>>>>>> mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() has checked whether current memcg_in_oom is
> >>>>>>>> set or not, so remove the check in handle_mm_fault().
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() will returned immediately if memcg_in_oom is not set, so remove the check from handle_mm_fault()".
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> However, that requires now always an indirect function call -- do we care about dropping that optimization?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If memcg_in_oom is set, we will check it twice, one is from handle_mm_fault(), the other is from mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(). That seems a bit redundant.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> if memcg_in_oom is not set, mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize() returns directly. Though it's an indirect function call, but the time spent can be negligible
> >>>>>> compare to the whole mm user falut preocess. And that won't cause stack overflow error.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I suggest you measure it.
> >>>>
> >>>> test steps:
> >>>> 1) Run command: ./mmap_anon_test(global alloc, so the memcg_in_oom is not set)
> >>>> 2) Calculate the quotient of cost time and page-fault counts, run 10 rounds and average the results.
> >>>>
> >>>> The test result shows that whether using indirect function call or not, the time spent in user fault
> >>>> is almost the same, about 2.3ms.
> >>>
> >>> I guess most of the benchmark time is consumed by allocating fresh pages in your test (also, why exactly do you use MAP_SHARED?).
> >>>
> >>> Is 2.3ms the total time for writing to that 1GiB of memory or how did you derive that number? Posting both results would be cleaner (with more digits ;) ).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Daivd, the details of test result were posted last week. Do you have any suggestions or more concerns about this change?
> >
> > No, I guess it really doesn't matter performance wise.
> >
> > One valid question would be: why perform this change at all? The redundancy doesn't seem to harm performance either.
> >
> > If the change would obviously improve code readability it would be easy to justify. I'm not convinced, that is the case, but maybe for others.
>
> Yes, this change doesn't optimize performance, just improve the code readability.
> It seems that nobody ack this change, should I change the commit message and resend this patch?

I don't see the point of this patch. Just drop it.