| Message ID | 20240701142046.6050-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Series | mm: Enable setting -1 for vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction to set the minimum pagelist | expand |
On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any ongoing work would be helpful here. > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > @@ -856,6 +856,10 @@ on per-cpu page lists. This entry only changes the value of hot per-cpu > page lists. A user can specify a number like 100 to allocate 1/100th of > each zone between per-cpu lists. > > +The minimum number of pages that can be stored in per-CPU page lists is > +four times the batch value. By writing '-1' to this sysctl, you can set > +this minimum value. I suggest we also describe why an operator would want to set this, and the expected effects of that action. > The batch value of each per-cpu page list remains the same regardless of > the value of the high fraction so allocation latencies are unaffected. > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 2e22ce5675ca..e7313f9d704b 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -5486,6 +5486,10 @@ static int zone_highsize(struct zone *zone, int batch, int cpu_online, > int nr_split_cpus; > unsigned long total_pages; > > + /* Setting -1 to set the minimum pagelist size, four times the batch size */ Some old-timers still use 80-column xterms ;) > + if (high_fraction == -1) > + return batch << 2; > + > if (!high_fraction) { > /* > * By default, the high value of the pcp is based on the zone
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These > > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. > > Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A > reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any > ongoing work would be helpful here. In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency spikes. Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a primary contributor to the observed latency issues. + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mmput ▒ - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] [k] exit_mmap ▒ - 76.97% exit_mmap ▒ - 58.58% unmap_vmas ▒ - 58.55% unmap_single_vma ▒ - unmap_page_range ▒ - 58.32% zap_pte_range ▒ - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu ▒ - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache ▒ - 41.22% release_pages ▒ - 33.29% free_unref_page_list ▒ - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit ▒ - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk ▒ + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock ▒ 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid ▒ + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave ▒ + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list ▒ 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state ▒ 1.07% free_swap_cache ▒ + 11.69% page_remove_rmap ▒ 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state - 17.34% remove_vma ▒ - 17.25% vm_area_free ▒ - 17.23% kmem_cache_free ▒ - 17.15% __slab_free ▒ - 14.56% discard_slab ▒ free_slab ▒ __free_slab ▒ __free_pages ▒ - free_unref_page ▒ - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit ▒ - free_pcppages_bulk ▒ + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp e=1 <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> => free_pcppages_bulk => free_unref_page_commit => free_unref_page_list => release_pages => free_pages_and_swap_cache => tlb_flush_mmu => zap_pte_range => unmap_page_range => unmap_single_vma => unmap_vmas => exit_mmap => mmput => do_exit => do_group_exit => get_signal => arch_do_signal_or_restart => exit_to_user_mode_prepare => syscall_exit_to_user_mode => do_syscall_64 => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, Node 0, zone Normal pages free 144465775 boost 0 min 1309270 low 1636587 high 1963904 spanned 564133888 present 296747008 managed 291974346 cma 0 protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) ... ... pagesets cpu: 0 count: 2217 high: 6392 batch: 63 vm stats threshold: 125 cpu: 1 count: 4510 high: 6392 batch: 63 vm stats threshold: 125 cpu: 2 count: 3059 high: 6392 batch: 63 ... The high is around 100 times the batch size. We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() function during the container exit process: 19:48:54 nsecs : count distribution 0 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | 32 -> 63 : 0 | | 64 -> 127 : 0 | | 128 -> 255 : 0 | | 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to significantly reduce the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: nsecs : count distribution 0 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | 32 -> 63 : 0 | | 64 -> 127 : 0 | | 128 -> 255 : 120 | | 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. > > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > @@ -856,6 +856,10 @@ on per-cpu page lists. This entry only changes the value of hot per-cpu > > page lists. A user can specify a number like 100 to allocate 1/100th of > > each zone between per-cpu lists. > > > > +The minimum number of pages that can be stored in per-CPU page lists is > > +four times the batch value. By writing '-1' to this sysctl, you can set > > +this minimum value. > > I suggest we also describe why an operator would want to set this, and > the expected effects of that action. will improve it. > > > The batch value of each per-cpu page list remains the same regardless of > > the value of the high fraction so allocation latencies are unaffected. > > > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > > index 2e22ce5675ca..e7313f9d704b 100644 > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -5486,6 +5486,10 @@ static int zone_highsize(struct zone *zone, int batch, int cpu_online, > > int nr_split_cpus; > > unsigned long total_pages; > > > > + /* Setting -1 to set the minimum pagelist size, four times the batch size */ > > Some old-timers still use 80-column xterms ;) will change it. Regards Yafang
Hi, Yafang, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. Can you show some data? On which kind of machine, how long is the latency? > These > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. So, the allocation latency is influenced, not application exit latency? Could you measure the run time of free_pcppages_bulk(), this can be done via ftrace function_graph tracer. We want to check whether this is a common issue. In commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), we have measured the allocation/free latency for different CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. The target in the commit is to control the latency <= 100us. > As a workaround, we've found that minimizing the pagelist size, such as > setting it to 4 times the batch size, can help mitigate these spikes. > However, managing vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction across a large fleet of > servers poses challenges due to variations in CPU counts, NUMA nodes, and > physical memory capacities. > > To enhance practicality, we propose allowing the setting of -1 for > vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction to designate a minimum pagelist size. If it is really necessary, can we just use a large enough number for vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction? For example, (1 << 30)? > Furthermore, considering the challenges associated with utilizing > vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction, it would be beneficial to introduce a > more intuitive parameter, vm.percpu_pagelist_high_size, that would permit > direct specification of the pagelist size as a multiple of the batch size. > This methodology would mirror the functionality of vm.dirty_ratio and > vm.dirty_bytes, providing users with greater flexibility and control. > > We have discussed the possibility of introducing multiple small zones to > mitigate the contention on the zone->lock[0], but this approach is likely > to require a longer-term implementation effort. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZnTrZ9mcAIRodnjx@casper.infradead.org/ [0] > Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> [snip] -- Best Regards, Huang, Ying
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any >> ongoing work would be helpful here. > > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency > spikes. > > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. > > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > [k] mmput ▒ > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > [k] exit_mmap ▒ > - 76.97% exit_mmap > ▒ > - 58.58% unmap_vmas > ▒ > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma > ▒ > - unmap_page_range > ▒ > - 58.32% zap_pte_range > ▒ > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu > ▒ > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache > ▒ > - 41.22% release_pages > ▒ > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list > ▒ > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit > ▒ > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk > ▒ > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock > ▒ > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid > ▒ > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave > ▒ > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list > ▒ > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state > ▒ > 1.07% free_swap_cache > ▒ > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap > ▒ > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state > - 17.34% remove_vma > ▒ > - 17.25% vm_area_free > ▒ > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free > ▒ > - 17.15% __slab_free > ▒ > - 14.56% discard_slab > ▒ > free_slab > ▒ > __free_slab > ▒ > __free_pages > ▒ > - free_unref_page > ▒ > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit > ▒ > - free_pcppages_bulk > ▒ > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock > > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: > > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp > e=1 > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> > => free_pcppages_bulk > => free_unref_page_commit > => free_unref_page_list > => release_pages > => free_pages_and_swap_cache > => tlb_flush_mmu > => zap_pte_range > => unmap_page_range > => unmap_single_vma > => unmap_vmas > => exit_mmap > => mmput > => do_exit > => do_group_exit > => get_signal > => arch_do_signal_or_restart > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode > => do_syscall_64 > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe > > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, > > Node 0, zone Normal > pages free 144465775 > boost 0 > min 1309270 > low 1636587 > high 1963904 > spanned 564133888 > present 296747008 > managed 291974346 > cma 0 > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) > ... > ... > pagesets > cpu: 0 > count: 2217 > high: 6392 > batch: 63 > vm stats threshold: 125 > cpu: 1 > count: 4510 > high: 6392 > batch: 63 > vm stats threshold: 125 > cpu: 2 > count: 3059 > high: 6392 > batch: 63 > > ... > > The high is around 100 times the batch size. > > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() > function during the container exit process: > > 19:48:54 > nsecs : count distribution > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | > > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 > > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. > > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to > significantly reduce the latency associated with the > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: > > nsecs : count distribution > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | > > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 > > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. Thanks for your detailed data. IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting shouldn't be a problem? Because users care more about the total time of process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with your configuration? But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it a try? [snip] -- Best Regards, Huang, Ying
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > > Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These > >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. > >> > >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A > >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any > >> ongoing work would be helpful here. > > > > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container > > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These > > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due > > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a > > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other > > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency > > spikes. > > > > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of > > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of > > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock > > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts > > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a > > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. > > > > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > > [k] mmput ▒ > > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > > [k] exit_mmap ▒ > > - 76.97% exit_mmap > > ▒ > > - 58.58% unmap_vmas > > ▒ > > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma > > ▒ > > - unmap_page_range > > ▒ > > - 58.32% zap_pte_range > > ▒ > > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu > > ▒ > > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache > > ▒ > > - 41.22% release_pages > > ▒ > > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list > > ▒ > > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit > > ▒ > > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk > > ▒ > > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock > > ▒ > > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid > > ▒ > > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave > > ▒ > > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list > > ▒ > > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state > > ▒ > > 1.07% free_swap_cache > > ▒ > > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap > > ▒ > > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state > > - 17.34% remove_vma > > ▒ > > - 17.25% vm_area_free > > ▒ > > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free > > ▒ > > - 17.15% __slab_free > > ▒ > > - 14.56% discard_slab > > ▒ > > free_slab > > ▒ > > __free_slab > > ▒ > > __free_pages > > ▒ > > - free_unref_page > > ▒ > > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit > > ▒ > > - free_pcppages_bulk > > ▒ > > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock > > > > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: > > > > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: > > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp > > e=1 > > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> > > => free_pcppages_bulk > > => free_unref_page_commit > > => free_unref_page_list > > => release_pages > > => free_pages_and_swap_cache > > => tlb_flush_mmu > > => zap_pte_range > > => unmap_page_range > > => unmap_single_vma > > => unmap_vmas > > => exit_mmap > > => mmput > > => do_exit > > => do_group_exit > > => get_signal > > => arch_do_signal_or_restart > > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare > > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode > > => do_syscall_64 > > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe > > > > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive > > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all > > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, > > > > Node 0, zone Normal > > pages free 144465775 > > boost 0 > > min 1309270 > > low 1636587 > > high 1963904 > > spanned 564133888 > > present 296747008 > > managed 291974346 > > cma 0 > > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) > > ... > > ... > > pagesets > > cpu: 0 > > count: 2217 > > high: 6392 > > batch: 63 > > vm stats threshold: 125 > > cpu: 1 > > count: 4510 > > high: 6392 > > batch: 63 > > vm stats threshold: 125 > > cpu: 2 > > count: 3059 > > high: 6392 > > batch: 63 > > > > ... > > > > The high is around 100 times the batch size. > > > > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() > > function during the container exit process: > > > > 19:48:54 > > nsecs : count distribution > > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | > > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | > > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| > > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | > > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | > > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | > > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | > > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | > > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | > > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | > > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | > > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | > > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | > > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | > > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | > > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | > > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | > > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | > > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | > > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | > > > > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 > > > > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. > > > > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the > > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to > > significantly reduce the latency associated with the > > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: > > > > nsecs : count distribution > > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | > > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | > > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | > > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | > > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | > > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | > > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | > > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | > > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| > > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | > > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | > > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | > > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | > > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | > > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | > > > > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 > > > > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl > > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively > > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no > > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to > > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it > > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. > > Thanks for your detailed data. > > IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting > shouldn't be a problem? Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory to experience delays or wait times. > Because users care more about the total time of > process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock > contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with > your configuration? While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with unstable performance. > > But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other > processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. > > Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, > you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that > may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it > a try? Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users to more easily adjust it. Below is the replyment to your question in another thread: > Could you measure the run time of free_pcppages_bulk(), this can be done > via ftrace function_graph tracer. We want to check whether this is a > common issue. I believe this issue is not a common issue, as we have only observed latency spikes under this specific workload. > If it is really necessary, can we just use a large enough number for > vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction? For example, (1 << 30)? Currently, we are setting the value to 0x7fffffff, which can be confusing for others due to its arbitrary nature. Given that the minimum high size is a special value, specifically 4 times the batch size, I believe it would be more beneficial to introduce a dedicated sysctl value that clearly represents this setting. This will not only make the configuration more intuitive for users, but also provide a clear and documented reference for future reference.
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment >> >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These >> >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly >> >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. >> >> >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A >> >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any >> >> ongoing work would be helpful here. >> > >> > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container >> > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These >> > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due >> > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a >> > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other >> > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency >> > spikes. >> > >> > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of >> > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of >> > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock >> > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts >> > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a >> > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. >> > >> > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> > [k] mmput ▒ >> > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> > [k] exit_mmap ▒ >> > - 76.97% exit_mmap >> > ▒ >> > - 58.58% unmap_vmas >> > ▒ >> > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma >> > ▒ >> > - unmap_page_range >> > ▒ >> > - 58.32% zap_pte_range >> > ▒ >> > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu >> > ▒ >> > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache >> > ▒ >> > - 41.22% release_pages >> > ▒ >> > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list >> > ▒ >> > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit >> > ▒ >> > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk >> > ▒ >> > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock >> > ▒ >> > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid >> > ▒ >> > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave >> > ▒ >> > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list >> > ▒ >> > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state >> > ▒ >> > 1.07% free_swap_cache >> > ▒ >> > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap >> > ▒ >> > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state >> > - 17.34% remove_vma >> > ▒ >> > - 17.25% vm_area_free >> > ▒ >> > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free >> > ▒ >> > - 17.15% __slab_free >> > ▒ >> > - 14.56% discard_slab >> > ▒ >> > free_slab >> > ▒ >> > __free_slab >> > ▒ >> > __free_pages >> > ▒ >> > - free_unref_page >> > ▒ >> > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit >> > ▒ >> > - free_pcppages_bulk >> > ▒ >> > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock >> > >> > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: >> > >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: >> > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp >> > e=1 >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> >> > => free_pcppages_bulk >> > => free_unref_page_commit >> > => free_unref_page_list >> > => release_pages >> > => free_pages_and_swap_cache >> > => tlb_flush_mmu >> > => zap_pte_range >> > => unmap_page_range >> > => unmap_single_vma >> > => unmap_vmas >> > => exit_mmap >> > => mmput >> > => do_exit >> > => do_group_exit >> > => get_signal >> > => arch_do_signal_or_restart >> > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare >> > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode >> > => do_syscall_64 >> > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe >> > >> > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive >> > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all >> > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, >> > >> > Node 0, zone Normal >> > pages free 144465775 >> > boost 0 >> > min 1309270 >> > low 1636587 >> > high 1963904 >> > spanned 564133888 >> > present 296747008 >> > managed 291974346 >> > cma 0 >> > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) >> > ... >> > ... >> > pagesets >> > cpu: 0 >> > count: 2217 >> > high: 6392 >> > batch: 63 >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> > cpu: 1 >> > count: 4510 >> > high: 6392 >> > batch: 63 >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> > cpu: 2 >> > count: 3059 >> > high: 6392 >> > batch: 63 >> > >> > ... >> > >> > The high is around 100 times the batch size. >> > >> > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() >> > function during the container exit process: >> > >> > 19:48:54 >> > nsecs : count distribution >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | >> > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | >> > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | >> > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | >> > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | >> > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | >> > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | >> > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | >> > >> > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 >> > >> > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. >> > >> > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the >> > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to >> > significantly reduce the latency associated with the >> > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: >> > >> > nsecs : count distribution >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | >> > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | >> > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | >> > >> > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 >> > >> > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl >> > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively >> > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no >> > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to >> > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it >> > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. >> >> Thanks for your detailed data. >> >> IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting >> shouldn't be a problem? > > Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too > long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory > to experience delays or wait times. > >> Because users care more about the total time of >> process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock >> contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with >> your configuration? > > While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the > minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric > for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher > latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. > Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower > throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with > unstable performance. > >> >> But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other >> processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. >> >> Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, >> you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that >> may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it >> a try? > > Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX > configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements > to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: > restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which > has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the > pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some > improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. > > BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as > an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users > to more easily adjust it. If you cannot test upstream behavior, it's hard to make changes to upstream. Could you find a way to do that? IIUC, PCP high will not influence allocate/free latency, PCP batch will. Your configuration will influence PCP batch via configuration PCP high. So, it may be reasonable to find a way to adjust PCP batch directly. But, we need practical requirements and test methods first. [snip] -- Best Regards, Huang, Ying
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > > Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > >> > >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > >> >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These > >> >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > >> >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. > >> >> > >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A > >> >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any > >> >> ongoing work would be helpful here. > >> > > >> > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container > >> > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These > >> > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due > >> > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a > >> > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other > >> > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency > >> > spikes. > >> > > >> > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of > >> > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of > >> > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock > >> > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts > >> > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a > >> > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. > >> > > >> > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > >> > [k] mmput ▒ > >> > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > >> > [k] exit_mmap ▒ > >> > - 76.97% exit_mmap > >> > ▒ > >> > - 58.58% unmap_vmas > >> > ▒ > >> > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma > >> > ▒ > >> > - unmap_page_range > >> > ▒ > >> > - 58.32% zap_pte_range > >> > ▒ > >> > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu > >> > ▒ > >> > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache > >> > ▒ > >> > - 41.22% release_pages > >> > ▒ > >> > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list > >> > ▒ > >> > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit > >> > ▒ > >> > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk > >> > ▒ > >> > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock > >> > ▒ > >> > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid > >> > ▒ > >> > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave > >> > ▒ > >> > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list > >> > ▒ > >> > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state > >> > ▒ > >> > 1.07% free_swap_cache > >> > ▒ > >> > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap > >> > ▒ > >> > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state > >> > - 17.34% remove_vma > >> > ▒ > >> > - 17.25% vm_area_free > >> > ▒ > >> > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free > >> > ▒ > >> > - 17.15% __slab_free > >> > ▒ > >> > - 14.56% discard_slab > >> > ▒ > >> > free_slab > >> > ▒ > >> > __free_slab > >> > ▒ > >> > __free_pages > >> > ▒ > >> > - free_unref_page > >> > ▒ > >> > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit > >> > ▒ > >> > - free_pcppages_bulk > >> > ▒ > >> > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock > >> > > >> > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: > >> > > >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: > >> > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp > >> > e=1 > >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> > >> > => free_pcppages_bulk > >> > => free_unref_page_commit > >> > => free_unref_page_list > >> > => release_pages > >> > => free_pages_and_swap_cache > >> > => tlb_flush_mmu > >> > => zap_pte_range > >> > => unmap_page_range > >> > => unmap_single_vma > >> > => unmap_vmas > >> > => exit_mmap > >> > => mmput > >> > => do_exit > >> > => do_group_exit > >> > => get_signal > >> > => arch_do_signal_or_restart > >> > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare > >> > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode > >> > => do_syscall_64 > >> > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe > >> > > >> > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive > >> > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all > >> > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, > >> > > >> > Node 0, zone Normal > >> > pages free 144465775 > >> > boost 0 > >> > min 1309270 > >> > low 1636587 > >> > high 1963904 > >> > spanned 564133888 > >> > present 296747008 > >> > managed 291974346 > >> > cma 0 > >> > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) > >> > ... > >> > ... > >> > pagesets > >> > cpu: 0 > >> > count: 2217 > >> > high: 6392 > >> > batch: 63 > >> > vm stats threshold: 125 > >> > cpu: 1 > >> > count: 4510 > >> > high: 6392 > >> > batch: 63 > >> > vm stats threshold: 125 > >> > cpu: 2 > >> > count: 3059 > >> > high: 6392 > >> > batch: 63 > >> > > >> > ... > >> > > >> > The high is around 100 times the batch size. > >> > > >> > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() > >> > function during the container exit process: > >> > > >> > 19:48:54 > >> > nsecs : count distribution > >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > >> > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | > >> > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | > >> > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| > >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | > >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | > >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | > >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | > >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | > >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | > >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | > >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | > >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | > >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | > >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | > >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | > >> > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | > >> > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | > >> > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | > >> > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | > >> > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | > >> > > >> > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 > >> > > >> > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. > >> > > >> > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the > >> > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to > >> > significantly reduce the latency associated with the > >> > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: > >> > > >> > nsecs : count distribution > >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > >> > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | > >> > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | > >> > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | > >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | > >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | > >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | > >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | > >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | > >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| > >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | > >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | > >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | > >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | > >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | > >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | > >> > > >> > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 > >> > > >> > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl > >> > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively > >> > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no > >> > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to > >> > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it > >> > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. > >> > >> Thanks for your detailed data. > >> > >> IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting > >> shouldn't be a problem? > > > > Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too > > long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory > > to experience delays or wait times. > > > >> Because users care more about the total time of > >> process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock > >> contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with > >> your configuration? > > > > While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the > > minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric > > for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher > > latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. > > Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower > > throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with > > unstable performance. > > > >> > >> But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other > >> processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. > >> > >> Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, > >> you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that > >> may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it > >> a try? > > > > Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX > > configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements > > to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: > > restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which > > has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the > > pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some > > improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. > > > > BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as > > an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users > > to more easily adjust it. > > If you cannot test upstream behavior, it's hard to make changes to > upstream. Could you find a way to do that? I'm afraid I can't run an upstream kernel in our production environment :( Lots of code changes have to be made. > > IIUC, PCP high will not influence allocate/free latency, PCP batch will. It seems incorrect. Looks at the code in free_unref_page_commit() : if (pcp->count >= high) { free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, free_high), pcp, pindex); } And nr_pcp_free() : min_nr_free = batch; max_nr_free = high - batch; batch = clamp_t(int, pcp->free_count, min_nr_free, max_nr_free); return batch; The 'batch' is not a fixed value but changed dynamically, isn't it ? > Your configuration will influence PCP batch via configuration PCP high. > So, it may be reasonable to find a way to adjust PCP batch directly. > But, we need practical requirements and test methods first. >
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment >> >> >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These >> >> >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly >> >> >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. >> >> >> >> >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A >> >> >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any >> >> >> ongoing work would be helpful here. >> >> > >> >> > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container >> >> > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These >> >> > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due >> >> > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a >> >> > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other >> >> > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency >> >> > spikes. >> >> > >> >> > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of >> >> > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of >> >> > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock >> >> > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts >> >> > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a >> >> > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. >> >> > >> >> > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> >> > [k] mmput ▒ >> >> > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> >> > [k] exit_mmap ▒ >> >> > - 76.97% exit_mmap >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 58.58% unmap_vmas >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - unmap_page_range >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 58.32% zap_pte_range >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 41.22% release_pages >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk >> >> > ▒ >> >> > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock >> >> > ▒ >> >> > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid >> >> > ▒ >> >> > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave >> >> > ▒ >> >> > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list >> >> > ▒ >> >> > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state >> >> > ▒ >> >> > 1.07% free_swap_cache >> >> > ▒ >> >> > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap >> >> > ▒ >> >> > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state >> >> > - 17.34% remove_vma >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 17.25% vm_area_free >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 17.15% __slab_free >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 14.56% discard_slab >> >> > ▒ >> >> > free_slab >> >> > ▒ >> >> > __free_slab >> >> > ▒ >> >> > __free_pages >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - free_unref_page >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit >> >> > ▒ >> >> > - free_pcppages_bulk >> >> > ▒ >> >> > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock >> >> > >> >> > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: >> >> > >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: >> >> > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp >> >> > e=1 >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> >> >> > => free_pcppages_bulk >> >> > => free_unref_page_commit >> >> > => free_unref_page_list >> >> > => release_pages >> >> > => free_pages_and_swap_cache >> >> > => tlb_flush_mmu >> >> > => zap_pte_range >> >> > => unmap_page_range >> >> > => unmap_single_vma >> >> > => unmap_vmas >> >> > => exit_mmap >> >> > => mmput >> >> > => do_exit >> >> > => do_group_exit >> >> > => get_signal >> >> > => arch_do_signal_or_restart >> >> > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare >> >> > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode >> >> > => do_syscall_64 >> >> > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe >> >> > >> >> > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive >> >> > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all >> >> > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, >> >> > >> >> > Node 0, zone Normal >> >> > pages free 144465775 >> >> > boost 0 >> >> > min 1309270 >> >> > low 1636587 >> >> > high 1963904 >> >> > spanned 564133888 >> >> > present 296747008 >> >> > managed 291974346 >> >> > cma 0 >> >> > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) >> >> > ... >> >> > ... >> >> > pagesets >> >> > cpu: 0 >> >> > count: 2217 >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> >> > cpu: 1 >> >> > count: 4510 >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> >> > cpu: 2 >> >> > count: 3059 >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> > >> >> > ... >> >> > >> >> > The high is around 100 times the batch size. >> >> > >> >> > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() >> >> > function during the container exit process: >> >> > >> >> > 19:48:54 >> >> > nsecs : count distribution >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | >> >> > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | >> >> > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | >> >> > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | >> >> > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | >> >> > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | >> >> > >> >> > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 >> >> > >> >> > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. >> >> > >> >> > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the >> >> > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to >> >> > significantly reduce the latency associated with the >> >> > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: >> >> > >> >> > nsecs : count distribution >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | >> >> > >> >> > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 >> >> > >> >> > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl >> >> > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively >> >> > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no >> >> > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to >> >> > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it >> >> > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. >> >> >> >> Thanks for your detailed data. >> >> >> >> IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting >> >> shouldn't be a problem? >> > >> > Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too >> > long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory >> > to experience delays or wait times. >> > >> >> Because users care more about the total time of >> >> process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock >> >> contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with >> >> your configuration? >> > >> > While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the >> > minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric >> > for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher >> > latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. >> > Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower >> > throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with >> > unstable performance. >> > >> >> >> >> But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other >> >> processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. >> >> >> >> Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, >> >> you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that >> >> may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it >> >> a try? >> > >> > Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX >> > configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements >> > to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: >> > restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which >> > has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the >> > pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some >> > improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. >> > >> > BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as >> > an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users >> > to more easily adjust it. >> >> If you cannot test upstream behavior, it's hard to make changes to >> upstream. Could you find a way to do that? > > I'm afraid I can't run an upstream kernel in our production environment :( > Lots of code changes have to be made. Understand. Can you find a way to test upstream behavior, not upstream kernel exactly? Or test the upstream kernel but in a similar but not exactly production environment. >> IIUC, PCP high will not influence allocate/free latency, PCP batch will. > > It seems incorrect. > Looks at the code in free_unref_page_commit() : > > if (pcp->count >= high) { > free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, free_high), > pcp, pindex); > } > > And nr_pcp_free() : > min_nr_free = batch; > max_nr_free = high - batch; > > batch = clamp_t(int, pcp->free_count, min_nr_free, max_nr_free); > return batch; > > The 'batch' is not a fixed value but changed dynamically, isn't it ? Sorry, my words were confusing. For 'batch', I mean the value of the "count" parameter of free_pcppages_bulk() actually. For example, if we change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX, we restrict that. >> Your configuration will influence PCP batch via configuration PCP high. >> So, it may be reasonable to find a way to adjust PCP batch directly. >> But, we need practical requirements and test methods first. >> -- Best Regards, Huang, Ying
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:23 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > > Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > >> > >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment > >> >> >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These > >> >> >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly > >> >> >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A > >> >> >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any > >> >> >> ongoing work would be helpful here. > >> >> > > >> >> > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container > >> >> > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These > >> >> > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due > >> >> > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a > >> >> > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other > >> >> > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency > >> >> > spikes. > >> >> > > >> >> > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of > >> >> > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of > >> >> > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock > >> >> > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts > >> >> > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a > >> >> > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. > >> >> > > >> >> > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > >> >> > [k] mmput ▒ > >> >> > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] > >> >> > [k] exit_mmap ▒ > >> >> > - 76.97% exit_mmap > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 58.58% unmap_vmas > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - unmap_page_range > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 58.32% zap_pte_range > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 41.22% release_pages > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > 1.07% free_swap_cache > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state > >> >> > - 17.34% remove_vma > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 17.25% vm_area_free > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 17.15% __slab_free > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 14.56% discard_slab > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > free_slab > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > __free_slab > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > __free_pages > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - free_unref_page > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > - free_pcppages_bulk > >> >> > ▒ > >> >> > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock > >> >> > > >> >> > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: > >> >> > > >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: > >> >> > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp > >> >> > e=1 > >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> > >> >> > => free_pcppages_bulk > >> >> > => free_unref_page_commit > >> >> > => free_unref_page_list > >> >> > => release_pages > >> >> > => free_pages_and_swap_cache > >> >> > => tlb_flush_mmu > >> >> > => zap_pte_range > >> >> > => unmap_page_range > >> >> > => unmap_single_vma > >> >> > => unmap_vmas > >> >> > => exit_mmap > >> >> > => mmput > >> >> > => do_exit > >> >> > => do_group_exit > >> >> > => get_signal > >> >> > => arch_do_signal_or_restart > >> >> > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare > >> >> > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode > >> >> > => do_syscall_64 > >> >> > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe > >> >> > > >> >> > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive > >> >> > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all > >> >> > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, > >> >> > > >> >> > Node 0, zone Normal > >> >> > pages free 144465775 > >> >> > boost 0 > >> >> > min 1309270 > >> >> > low 1636587 > >> >> > high 1963904 > >> >> > spanned 564133888 > >> >> > present 296747008 > >> >> > managed 291974346 > >> >> > cma 0 > >> >> > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) > >> >> > ... > >> >> > ... > >> >> > pagesets > >> >> > cpu: 0 > >> >> > count: 2217 > >> >> > high: 6392 > >> >> > batch: 63 > >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 > >> >> > cpu: 1 > >> >> > count: 4510 > >> >> > high: 6392 > >> >> > batch: 63 > >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 > >> >> > cpu: 2 > >> >> > count: 3059 > >> >> > high: 6392 > >> >> > batch: 63 > >> >> > > >> >> > ... > >> >> > > >> >> > The high is around 100 times the batch size. > >> >> > > >> >> > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() > >> >> > function during the container exit process: > >> >> > > >> >> > 19:48:54 > >> >> > nsecs : count distribution > >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | > >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | > >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| > >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | > >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | > >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | > >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | > >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | > >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | > >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | > >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | > >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | > >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | > >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | > >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | > >> >> > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | > >> >> > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | > >> >> > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | > >> >> > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | > >> >> > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | > >> >> > > >> >> > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 > >> >> > > >> >> > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. > >> >> > > >> >> > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the > >> >> > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to > >> >> > significantly reduce the latency associated with the > >> >> > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: > >> >> > > >> >> > nsecs : count distribution > >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | > >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | > >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | > >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | > >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | > >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | > >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | > >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | > >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | > >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | > >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | > >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | > >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | > >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | > >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | > >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| > >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | > >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | > >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | > >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | > >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | > >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | > >> >> > > >> >> > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 > >> >> > > >> >> > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl > >> >> > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively > >> >> > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no > >> >> > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to > >> >> > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it > >> >> > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for your detailed data. > >> >> > >> >> IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting > >> >> shouldn't be a problem? > >> > > >> > Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too > >> > long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory > >> > to experience delays or wait times. > >> > > >> >> Because users care more about the total time of > >> >> process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock > >> >> contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with > >> >> your configuration? > >> > > >> > While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the > >> > minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric > >> > for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher > >> > latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. > >> > Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower > >> > throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with > >> > unstable performance. > >> > > >> >> > >> >> But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other > >> >> processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. > >> >> > >> >> Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, > >> >> you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that > >> >> may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it > >> >> a try? > >> > > >> > Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX > >> > configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements > >> > to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: > >> > restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which > >> > has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the > >> > pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some > >> > improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. > >> > > >> > BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as > >> > an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users > >> > to more easily adjust it. > >> > >> If you cannot test upstream behavior, it's hard to make changes to > >> upstream. Could you find a way to do that? > > > > I'm afraid I can't run an upstream kernel in our production environment :( > > Lots of code changes have to be made. > > Understand. Can you find a way to test upstream behavior, not upstream > kernel exactly? Or test the upstream kernel but in a similar but not > exactly production environment. I'm willing to give it a try, but it may take some time to achieve the desired results.. > > >> IIUC, PCP high will not influence allocate/free latency, PCP batch will. > > > > It seems incorrect. > > Looks at the code in free_unref_page_commit() : > > > > if (pcp->count >= high) { > > free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, free_high), > > pcp, pindex); > > } > > > > And nr_pcp_free() : > > min_nr_free = batch; > > max_nr_free = high - batch; > > > > batch = clamp_t(int, pcp->free_count, min_nr_free, max_nr_free); > > return batch; > > > > The 'batch' is not a fixed value but changed dynamically, isn't it ? > > Sorry, my words were confusing. For 'batch', I mean the value of the > "count" parameter of free_pcppages_bulk() actually. For example, if we > change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX, we restrict that. If we set CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX to 0, what we actually expect is that the pcp->free_count should not exceed (63 << 0), right ? (suppose 63 is the default batch size) However, at worst, the pcp->free_count can be (62 + 1<< (MAX_ORDER)) , is that expected ? Perhaps we should make the change below? diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e7313f9d704b..8c52a30201d1 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2533,8 +2533,11 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp, } else if (pcp->flags & PCPF_PREV_FREE_HIGH_ORDER) { pcp->flags &= ~PCPF_PREV_FREE_HIGH_ORDER; } - if (pcp->free_count < (batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX)) + if (pcp->free_count < (batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX)) { pcp->free_count += (1 << order); + if (unlikely(pcp->free_count > (batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX))) + pcp->free_count = batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX; + } high = nr_pcp_high(pcp, zone, batch, free_high); if (pcp->count >= high) { free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, free_high),
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 11:23 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:51 AM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 22:20:46 +0800 Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment >> >> >> >> > when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These >> >> >> >> > tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly >> >> >> >> > impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Is this locking issue well understood? Is anyone working on it? A >> >> >> >> reasonably detailed description of the issue and a description of any >> >> >> >> ongoing work would be helpful here. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > In our containerized environment, we have a specific type of container >> >> >> > that runs 18 processes, each consuming approximately 6GB of RSS. These >> >> >> > processes are organized as separate processes rather than threads due >> >> >> > to the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) being a bottleneck in a >> >> >> > multi-threaded setup. Upon the exit of these containers, other >> >> >> > containers hosted on the same machine experience significant latency >> >> >> > spikes. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Our investigation using perf tracing revealed that the root cause of >> >> >> > these spikes is the simultaneous execution of exit_mmap() by each of >> >> >> > the exiting processes. This concurrent access to the zone->lock >> >> >> > results in contention, which becomes a hotspot and negatively impacts >> >> >> > performance. The perf results clearly indicate this contention as a >> >> >> > primary contributor to the observed latency issues. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > + 77.02% 0.00% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> >> >> > [k] mmput ▒ >> >> >> > - 76.98% 0.01% uwsgi [kernel.kallsyms] >> >> >> > [k] exit_mmap ▒ >> >> >> > - 76.97% exit_mmap >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 58.58% unmap_vmas >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 58.55% unmap_single_vma >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - unmap_page_range >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 58.32% zap_pte_range >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 42.88% tlb_flush_mmu >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 42.76% free_pages_and_swap_cache >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 41.22% release_pages >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 33.29% free_unref_page_list >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 32.37% free_unref_page_commit >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 31.64% free_pcppages_bulk >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > + 28.65% _raw_spin_lock >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > 1.28% __list_del_entry_valid >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > + 3.25% folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > + 0.75% __mem_cgroup_uncharge_list >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > 0.60% __mod_lruvec_state >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > 1.07% free_swap_cache >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > + 11.69% page_remove_rmap >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > 0.64% __mod_lruvec_page_state >> >> >> > - 17.34% remove_vma >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 17.25% vm_area_free >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 17.23% kmem_cache_free >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 17.15% __slab_free >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 14.56% discard_slab >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > free_slab >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > __free_slab >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > __free_pages >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - free_unref_page >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - 13.50% free_unref_page_commit >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > - free_pcppages_bulk >> >> >> > ▒ >> >> >> > + 13.44% _raw_spin_lock >> >> >> > >> >> >> > By enabling the mm_page_pcpu_drain() we can find the detailed stack: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023883: mm_page_pcpu_drain: >> >> >> > page=0000000035a1b0b7 pfn=0x11c19c72 order=0 migratetyp >> >> >> > e=1 >> >> >> > <...>-1540432 [224] d..3. 618048.023887: <stack trace> >> >> >> > => free_pcppages_bulk >> >> >> > => free_unref_page_commit >> >> >> > => free_unref_page_list >> >> >> > => release_pages >> >> >> > => free_pages_and_swap_cache >> >> >> > => tlb_flush_mmu >> >> >> > => zap_pte_range >> >> >> > => unmap_page_range >> >> >> > => unmap_single_vma >> >> >> > => unmap_vmas >> >> >> > => exit_mmap >> >> >> > => mmput >> >> >> > => do_exit >> >> >> > => do_group_exit >> >> >> > => get_signal >> >> >> > => arch_do_signal_or_restart >> >> >> > => exit_to_user_mode_prepare >> >> >> > => syscall_exit_to_user_mode >> >> >> > => do_syscall_64 >> >> >> > => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The servers experiencing these issues are equipped with impressive >> >> >> > hardware specifications, including 256 CPUs and 1TB of memory, all >> >> >> > within a single NUMA node. The zoneinfo is as follows, >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Node 0, zone Normal >> >> >> > pages free 144465775 >> >> >> > boost 0 >> >> >> > min 1309270 >> >> >> > low 1636587 >> >> >> > high 1963904 >> >> >> > spanned 564133888 >> >> >> > present 296747008 >> >> >> > managed 291974346 >> >> >> > cma 0 >> >> >> > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0) >> >> >> > ... >> >> >> > ... >> >> >> > pagesets >> >> >> > cpu: 0 >> >> >> > count: 2217 >> >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> >> >> > cpu: 1 >> >> >> > count: 4510 >> >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> >> > vm stats threshold: 125 >> >> >> > cpu: 2 >> >> >> > count: 3059 >> >> >> > high: 6392 >> >> >> > batch: 63 >> >> >> > >> >> >> > ... >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The high is around 100 times the batch size. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > We also traced the latency associated with the free_pcppages_bulk() >> >> >> > function during the container exit process: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > 19:48:54 >> >> >> > nsecs : count distribution >> >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 148 |***************** | >> >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 334 |****************************************| >> >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 33 |*** | >> >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 5 | | >> >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 7 | | >> >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 12 |* | >> >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 30 |*** | >> >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 21 |** | >> >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 15 |* | >> >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 27 |*** | >> >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 84 |********** | >> >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 203 |************************ | >> >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 284 |********************************** | >> >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 327 |*************************************** | >> >> >> > 4194304 -> 8388607 : 215 |************************* | >> >> >> > 8388608 -> 16777215 : 116 |************* | >> >> >> > 16777216 -> 33554431 : 47 |***** | >> >> >> > 33554432 -> 67108863 : 8 | | >> >> >> > 67108864 -> 134217727 : 3 | | >> >> >> > >> >> >> > avg = 3066311 nsecs, total: 5887317501 nsecs, count: 1920 >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The latency can reach tens of milliseconds. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > By adjusting the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction parameter to set the >> >> >> > minimum pagelist high at 4 times the batch size, we were able to >> >> >> > significantly reduce the latency associated with the >> >> >> > free_pcppages_bulk() function during container exits.: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > nsecs : count distribution >> >> >> > 0 -> 1 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 2 -> 3 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 4 -> 7 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 8 -> 15 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 16 -> 31 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 32 -> 63 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 64 -> 127 : 0 | | >> >> >> > 128 -> 255 : 120 | | >> >> >> > 256 -> 511 : 365 |* | >> >> >> > 512 -> 1023 : 201 | | >> >> >> > 1024 -> 2047 : 103 | | >> >> >> > 2048 -> 4095 : 84 | | >> >> >> > 4096 -> 8191 : 87 | | >> >> >> > 8192 -> 16383 : 4777 |************** | >> >> >> > 16384 -> 32767 : 10572 |******************************* | >> >> >> > 32768 -> 65535 : 13544 |****************************************| >> >> >> > 65536 -> 131071 : 12723 |************************************* | >> >> >> > 131072 -> 262143 : 8604 |************************* | >> >> >> > 262144 -> 524287 : 3659 |********** | >> >> >> > 524288 -> 1048575 : 921 |** | >> >> >> > 1048576 -> 2097151 : 122 | | >> >> >> > 2097152 -> 4194303 : 5 | | >> >> >> > >> >> >> > avg = 103814 nsecs, total: 5805802787 nsecs, count: 55925 >> >> >> > >> >> >> > After successfully tuning the vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction sysctl >> >> >> > knob to set the minimum pagelist high at a level that effectively >> >> >> > mitigated latency issues, we observed that other containers were no >> >> >> > longer experiencing similar complaints. As a result, we decided to >> >> >> > implement this tuning as a permanent workaround and have deployed it >> >> >> > across all clusters of servers where these containers may be deployed. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for your detailed data. >> >> >> >> >> >> IIUC, the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() during process exiting >> >> >> shouldn't be a problem? >> >> > >> >> > Right. The problem arises when the process holds the lock for too >> >> > long, causing other processes that are attempting to allocate memory >> >> > to experience delays or wait times. >> >> > >> >> >> Because users care more about the total time of >> >> >> process exiting, that is, throughput. And I suspect that the zone->lock >> >> >> contention and page allocating/freeing throughput will be worse with >> >> >> your configuration? >> >> > >> >> > While reducing throughput may not be a significant concern due to the >> >> > minimal difference, the potential for latency spikes, a crucial metric >> >> > for assessing system stability, is of greater concern to users. Higher >> >> > latency can lead to request errors, impacting the user experience. >> >> > Therefore, maintaining stability, even at the cost of slightly lower >> >> > throughput, is preferable to experiencing higher throughput with >> >> > unstable performance. >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> But the latency of free_pcppages_bulk() and page allocation in other >> >> >> processes is a problem. And your configuration can help it. >> >> >> >> >> >> Another choice is to change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX. In that way, >> >> >> you have a normal PCP size (high) but smaller PCP batch. I guess that >> >> >> may help both latency and throughput in your system. Could you give it >> >> >> a try? >> >> > >> >> > Currently, our kernel does not include the CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX >> >> > configuration option. However, I've observed your recent improvements >> >> > to the zone->lock mechanism, particularly commit 52166607ecc9 ("mm: >> >> > restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency"), which >> >> > has prompted me to experiment with manually setting the >> >> > pcp->free_factor to zero. While this adjustment provided some >> >> > improvement, the results were not as significant as I had hoped. >> >> > >> >> > BTW, perhaps we should consider the implementation of a sysctl knob as >> >> > an alternative to CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX? This would allow users >> >> > to more easily adjust it. >> >> >> >> If you cannot test upstream behavior, it's hard to make changes to >> >> upstream. Could you find a way to do that? >> > >> > I'm afraid I can't run an upstream kernel in our production environment :( >> > Lots of code changes have to be made. >> >> Understand. Can you find a way to test upstream behavior, not upstream >> kernel exactly? Or test the upstream kernel but in a similar but not >> exactly production environment. > > I'm willing to give it a try, but it may take some time to achieve the > desired results.. Thanks! >> >> >> IIUC, PCP high will not influence allocate/free latency, PCP batch will. >> > >> > It seems incorrect. >> > Looks at the code in free_unref_page_commit() : >> > >> > if (pcp->count >= high) { >> > free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, free_high), >> > pcp, pindex); >> > } >> > >> > And nr_pcp_free() : >> > min_nr_free = batch; >> > max_nr_free = high - batch; >> > >> > batch = clamp_t(int, pcp->free_count, min_nr_free, max_nr_free); >> > return batch; >> > >> > The 'batch' is not a fixed value but changed dynamically, isn't it ? >> >> Sorry, my words were confusing. For 'batch', I mean the value of the >> "count" parameter of free_pcppages_bulk() actually. For example, if we >> change CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX, we restrict that. > > If we set CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX to 0, what we actually expect is > that the pcp->free_count should not exceed (63 << 0), right ? (suppose > 63 is the default batch size) > However, at worst, the pcp->free_count can be (62 + 1<< (MAX_ORDER)) , > is that expected ? > > Perhaps we should make the change below? > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index e7313f9d704b..8c52a30201d1 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -2533,8 +2533,11 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct zone > *zone, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp, > } else if (pcp->flags & PCPF_PREV_FREE_HIGH_ORDER) { > pcp->flags &= ~PCPF_PREV_FREE_HIGH_ORDER; > } > - if (pcp->free_count < (batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX)) > + if (pcp->free_count < (batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX)) { > pcp->free_count += (1 << order); > + if (unlikely(pcp->free_count > (batch << > CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX))) > + pcp->free_count = batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX; > + } > high = nr_pcp_high(pcp, zone, batch, free_high); > if (pcp->count >= high) { > free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, batch, high, > free_high), Or pcp->free_count = max(pcp->free_count + (1<< order), batch << CONFIG_PCP_BATCH_SCALE_MAX); -- Best Regards, Huang, Ying
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index e86c968a7a0e..1f535d022cda 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -856,6 +856,10 @@ on per-cpu page lists. This entry only changes the value of hot per-cpu page lists. A user can specify a number like 100 to allocate 1/100th of each zone between per-cpu lists. +The minimum number of pages that can be stored in per-CPU page lists is +four times the batch value. By writing '-1' to this sysctl, you can set +this minimum value. + The batch value of each per-cpu page list remains the same regardless of the value of the high fraction so allocation latencies are unaffected. diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 2e22ce5675ca..e7313f9d704b 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5486,6 +5486,10 @@ static int zone_highsize(struct zone *zone, int batch, int cpu_online, int nr_split_cpus; unsigned long total_pages; + /* Setting -1 to set the minimum pagelist size, four times the batch size */ + if (high_fraction == -1) + return batch << 2; + if (!high_fraction) { /* * By default, the high value of the pcp is based on the zone @@ -6192,7 +6196,8 @@ static int percpu_pagelist_high_fraction_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, /* Sanity checking to avoid pcp imbalance */ if (percpu_pagelist_high_fraction && - percpu_pagelist_high_fraction < MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_HIGH_FRACTION) { + percpu_pagelist_high_fraction < MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_HIGH_FRACTION && + percpu_pagelist_high_fraction != -1) { percpu_pagelist_high_fraction = old_percpu_pagelist_high_fraction; ret = -EINVAL; goto out; @@ -6241,7 +6246,6 @@ static struct ctl_table page_alloc_sysctl_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(percpu_pagelist_high_fraction), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = percpu_pagelist_high_fraction_sysctl_handler, - .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO, }, { .procname = "lowmem_reserve_ratio",
Currently, we're encountering latency spikes in our container environment when a specific container with multiple Python-based tasks exits. These tasks may hold the zone->lock for an extended period, significantly impacting latency for other containers attempting to allocate memory. As a workaround, we've found that minimizing the pagelist size, such as setting it to 4 times the batch size, can help mitigate these spikes. However, managing vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction across a large fleet of servers poses challenges due to variations in CPU counts, NUMA nodes, and physical memory capacities. To enhance practicality, we propose allowing the setting of -1 for vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction to designate a minimum pagelist size. Furthermore, considering the challenges associated with utilizing vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction, it would be beneficial to introduce a more intuitive parameter, vm.percpu_pagelist_high_size, that would permit direct specification of the pagelist size as a multiple of the batch size. This methodology would mirror the functionality of vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_bytes, providing users with greater flexibility and control. We have discussed the possibility of introducing multiple small zones to mitigate the contention on the zone->lock[0], but this approach is likely to require a longer-term implementation effort. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZnTrZ9mcAIRodnjx@casper.infradead.org/ [0] Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 4 ++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)