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From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:14:49 +0800
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v5] mm: memcontrol: Add the missing
 numa_stat interface for cgroup v2
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:50 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 01:18:01AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > In the cgroup v1, we have a numa_stat interface. This is useful for
> > providing visibility into the numa locality information within an
> > memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical
> > node. One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by
> > combining this information with the application's CPU allocation.
> > But the cgroup v2 does not. So this patch adds the missing information.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
>
> Yup, that would be useful information to have. Just a few comments on
> the patch below:
>
> > @@ -1368,6 +1368,78 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
> >               collapsing an existing range of pages. This counter is not
> >               present when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is not set.
> >
> > +  memory.numa_stat
> > +     A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups.
>
> It's a nested key file, not flat.

This is just copied from memory.stat documentation.Is the memory.stat
also a nested key file?

>
> > +     This breaks down the cgroup's memory footprint into different
> > +     types of memory, type-specific details, and other information
> > +     per node on the state of the memory management system.
> > +
> > +     This is useful for providing visibility into the NUMA locality
> > +     information within an memcg since the pages are allowed to be
> > +     allocated from any physical node. One of the use case is evaluating
> > +     application performance by combining this information with the
> > +     application's CPU allocation.
> > +
> > +     All memory amounts are in bytes.
> > +
> > +     The output format of memory.numa_stat is::
> > +
> > +       type N0=<bytes in node 0> N1=<bytes in node 1> ...
> > +
> > +     The entries are ordered to be human readable, and new entries
> > +     can show up in the middle. Don't rely on items remaining in a
> > +     fixed position; use the keys to look up specific values!
> > +
> > +       anon
> > +             Amount of memory per node used in anonymous mappings such
> > +             as brk(), sbrk(), and mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS).
> > +
> > +       file
> > +             Amount of memory per node used to cache filesystem data,
> > +             including tmpfs and shared memory.
> > +
> > +       kernel_stack
> > +             Amount of memory per node allocated to kernel stacks.
> > +
> > +       shmem
> > +             Amount of cached filesystem data per node that is swap-backed,
> > +             such as tmpfs, shm segments, shared anonymous mmap()s.
> > +
> > +       file_mapped
> > +             Amount of cached filesystem data per node mapped with mmap().
> > +
> > +       file_dirty
> > +             Amount of cached filesystem data per node that was modified but
> > +             not yet written back to disk.
> > +
> > +       file_writeback
> > +             Amount of cached filesystem data per node that was modified and
> > +             is currently being written back to disk.
> > +
> > +       anon_thp
> > +             Amount of memory per node used in anonymous mappings backed by
> > +             transparent hugepages.
> > +
> > +       inactive_anon, active_anon, inactive_file, active_file, unevictable
> > +             Amount of memory, swap-backed and filesystem-backed,
> > +             per node on the internal memory management lists used
> > +             by the page reclaim algorithm.
> > +
> > +             As these represent internal list state (e.g. shmem pages are on
> > +             anon memory management lists), inactive_foo + active_foo may not
> > +             be equal to the value for the foo counter, since the foo counter
> > +             is type-based, not list-based.
> > +
> > +       slab_reclaimable
> > +             Amount of memory per node used for storing in-kernel data
> > +             structures which might be reclaimed, such as dentries and
> > +             inodes.
> > +
> > +       slab_unreclaimable
> > +             Amount of memory per node used for storing in-kernel data
> > +             structures which cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure.
> > +
> >    memory.swap.current
> >       A read-only single value file which exists on non-root
> >       cgroups.
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 75cd1a1e66c8..ff919ef3b57b 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -6425,6 +6425,86 @@ static int memory_stat_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > +struct numa_stat {
> > +     const char *name;
> > +     unsigned int ratio;
> > +     enum node_stat_item idx;
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct numa_stat numa_stats[] = {
> > +     { "anon", PAGE_SIZE, NR_ANON_MAPPED },
> > +     { "file", PAGE_SIZE, NR_FILE_PAGES },
> > +     { "kernel_stack", 1024, NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB },
> > +     { "shmem", PAGE_SIZE, NR_SHMEM },
> > +     { "file_mapped", PAGE_SIZE, NR_FILE_MAPPED },
> > +     { "file_dirty", PAGE_SIZE, NR_FILE_DIRTY },
> > +     { "file_writeback", PAGE_SIZE, NR_WRITEBACK },
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > +     /*
> > +      * The ratio will be initialized in numa_stats_init(). Because
> > +      * on some architectures, the macro of HPAGE_PMD_SIZE is not
> > +      * constant(e.g. powerpc).
> > +      */
> > +     { "anon_thp", 0, NR_ANON_THPS },
> > +#endif
> > +     { "inactive_anon", PAGE_SIZE, NR_INACTIVE_ANON },
> > +     { "active_anon", PAGE_SIZE, NR_ACTIVE_ANON },
> > +     { "inactive_file", PAGE_SIZE, NR_INACTIVE_FILE },
> > +     { "active_file", PAGE_SIZE, NR_ACTIVE_FILE },
> > +     { "unevictable", PAGE_SIZE, NR_UNEVICTABLE },
> > +     { "slab_reclaimable", 1, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B },
> > +     { "slab_unreclaimable", 1, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B },
> > +};
>
> This is a bit duplicative with memory_stat_format(), and the
> collections will easily go out of sync as we add/change stat items.
>
> Can you please convert memory_stat_format() to use the same shared table?
>
> You may have to add another flag for the MEMCG_* items for which we
> don't have per-node counters.
>
> The same applies to the documentation. Please don't duplicate the list
> of items, but have memory.numa_stat refer to the list for memory.stat.
> You can add (not in memory.numa_stat) or something to percpu and sock.

Thanks for your suggestions.

>
> > +static unsigned long memcg_node_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> > +                                        unsigned int nid,
> > +                                        enum node_stat_item idx)
> > +{
> > +     VM_BUG_ON(nid >= nr_node_ids);
> > +     return lruvec_page_state(mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, NODE_DATA(nid)), idx);
> > +}
>
> Please drop this wrapper and use lruvec_page_state directly below.
>
> Otherwise, this looks reasonable to me.

OK. Will do that.


-- 
Yours,
Muchun