memcg: use generic percpu instead of private implementation
When per-cpu counter for memcg was implemneted, dynamic percpu allocator
was not very good. But now, we have good one and useful macros. This
patch replaces memcg's private percpu counter implementation with generic
dynamic percpu allocator.
The benefits are
- We can remove private implementation.
- The counters will be NUMA-aware. (Current one is not...)
- This patch makes sizeof struct mem_cgroup smaller. Then,
struct mem_cgroup may be fit in page size on small config.
- About basic performance aspects, see below.
[Before]
# size mm/memcontrol.o
text data bss dec hex filename
24373 2528 4132 31033 7939 mm/memcontrol.o
[page-fault-throuput test on 8cpu/SMP in root cgroup]
# /root/bin/perf stat -a -e page-faults,cache-misses --repeat 5 ./multi-fault-fork 8
Performance counter stats for './multi-fault-fork 8' (5 runs):
45878618 page-faults ( +- 0.110% )
602635826 cache-misses ( +- 0.105% )
61.005373262 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.004% )
Then cache-miss/page fault = 13.14
[After]
#size mm/memcontrol.o
text data bss dec hex filename
23913 2528 4132 30573 776d mm/memcontrol.o
# /root/bin/perf stat -a -e page-faults,cache-misses --repeat 5 ./multi-fault-fork 8
Performance counter stats for './multi-fault-fork 8' (5 runs):
48179400 page-faults ( +- 0.271% )
588628407 cache-misses ( +- 0.136% )
61.004615021 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.004% )
Then cache-miss/page fault = 12.22
Text size is reduced.
This performance improvement is not big and will be invisible in real world
applications. But this result shows this patch has some good effect even
on (small) SMP.
Here is a test program I used.
1. fork() processes on each cpus.
2. do page fault repeatedly on each process.
3. after 60secs, kill all childredn and exit.
(3 is necessary for getting stable data, this is improvement from previous one.)
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/*
* For avoiding contention in page table lock, FAULT area is
* sparse. If FAULT_LENGTH is too large for your cpus, decrease it.
*/
#define FAULT_LENGTH (2 * 1024 * 1024)
#define PAGE_SIZE 4096
#define MAXNUM (128)
void alarm_handler(int sig)
{
}
void *worker(int cpu, int ppid)
{
void *start, *end;
char *c;
cpu_set_t set;
int i;
CPU_ZERO(&set);
CPU_SET(cpu, &set);
sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(set), &set);
start = mmap(NULL, FAULT_LENGTH, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
if (start == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
exit(1);
}
end = start + FAULT_LENGTH;
pause();
//fprintf(stderr, "run%d", cpu);
while (1) {
for (c = (char*)start; (void *)c < end; c += PAGE_SIZE)
*c = 0;
madvise(start, FAULT_LENGTH, MADV_DONTNEED);
}
return NULL;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int num, i, ret, pid, status;
int pids[MAXNUM];
if (argc < 2)
return 0;
setpgid(0, 0);
signal(SIGALRM, alarm_handler);
num = atoi(argv[1]);
pid = getpid();
for (i = 0; i < num; ++i) {
ret = fork();
if (!ret) {
worker(i, pid);
exit(0);
}
pids[i] = ret;
}
sleep(1);
kill(-pid, SIGALRM);
sleep(60);
for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
kill(pids[i], SIGKILL);
for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
waitpid(pids[i], &status, 0);
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: 
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: 
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: 
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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