Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] zswap: make shrinking memcg-aware

[Yosry Ahmed]

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:32 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, we only have a single global LRU for zswap. This makes it
> impossible to perform worload-specific shrinking - an memcg cannot
> determine which pages in the pool it owns, and often ends up writing
> pages from other memcgs. This issue has been previously observed in
> practice and mitigated by simply disabling memcg-initiated shrinking:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530232435.3097106-1-nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> This patch fully resolves the issue by replacing the global zswap LRU
> with memcg- and NUMA-specific LRUs, and modify the reclaim logic:
>
> a) When a store attempt hits an memcg limit, it now triggers a
>    synchronous reclaim attempt that, if successful, allows the new
>    hotter page to be accepted by zswap.
> b) If the store attempt instead hits the global zswap limit, it will
>    trigger an asynchronous reclaim attempt, in which an memcg is
>    selected for reclaim in a round-robin-like fashion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |   5 +
>  include/linux/zswap.h      |   2 +
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   2 +
>  mm/swap.h                  |   3 +-
>  mm/swap_state.c            |  24 +++-
>  mm/zswap.c                 | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  6 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 55c85f952afd..95f6c9e60ed1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -1187,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *page_memcg_check(struct page *page)
>         return NULL;
>  }
>
> +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
> +{
> +       return NULL;
> +}
> +
>  static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio)
>  {
>         return false;
> diff --git a/include/linux/zswap.h b/include/linux/zswap.h
> index 2a60ce39cfde..e571e393669b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/zswap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/zswap.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio);
>  void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset);
>  void zswap_swapon(int type);
>  void zswap_swapoff(int type);
> +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
>
>  #else
>
> @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline bool zswap_load(struct folio *folio)
>  static inline void zswap_invalidate(int type, pgoff_t offset) {}
>  static inline void zswap_swapon(int type) {}
>  static inline void zswap_swapoff(int type) {}
> +static inline void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
>
>  #endif
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 6f7fc0101252..2ef49b471a16 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -5640,6 +5640,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>         page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0);
>         page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
>
> +       zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(memcg);

I think the "_cleanup" suffix is unnecessary. I guess most calls made
here are cleanup calls anyway.

> +
>         memcg_offline_kmem(memcg);
>         reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg);
>         wb_memcg_offline(memcg);
> diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h
> index 73c332ee4d91..c0dc73e10e91 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.h
> +++ b/mm/swap.h

> @@ -289,15 +291,42 @@ static void zswap_update_total_size(void)
>         zswap_pool_total_size = total;
>  }
>
> +/* should be called under RCU */
> +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_entry(struct zswap_entry *entry)

Do not use "get" in the name if we are not actually taking a ref here.
mem_cgroup_from_entry()?

> +{
> +       return entry->objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(entry->objcg) : NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int entry_to_nid(struct zswap_entry *entry)
> +{
> +       return page_to_nid(virt_to_page(entry));
> +}
> +
> +void zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> +{
> +       struct zswap_pool *pool;
> +
> +       /* lock out zswap pools list modification */
> +       spin_lock(&zswap_pools_lock);
> +       list_for_each_entry(pool, &zswap_pools, list) {
> +               spin_lock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);

This lock is only needed to synchronize updating pool->next_shrink,
right? Can we just use atomic operations instead? (e.g. cmpxchg()).

> +               if (pool->next_shrink == memcg)
> +                       pool->next_shrink =
> +                               mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, pool->next_shrink, NULL, true);
> +               spin_unlock(&pool->next_shrink_lock);
> +       }
> +       spin_unlock(&zswap_pools_lock);
> +}
> +
>  /*********************************
>  * zswap entry functions
>  **********************************/
>  static struct kmem_cache *zswap_entry_cache;
>
> -static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
> +static struct zswap_entry *zswap_entry_cache_alloc(gfp_t gfp, int nid)
>  {
>         struct zswap_entry *entry;
> -       entry = kmem_cache_alloc(zswap_entry_cache, gfp);
> +       entry = kmem_cache_alloc_node(zswap_entry_cache, gfp, nid);
>         if (!entry)
>                 return NULL;
>         entry->refcount = 1;
[..]
> @@ -1233,15 +1369,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
>                 zswap_invalidate_entry(tree, dupentry);
>         }
>         spin_unlock(&tree->lock);
> -
> -       /*
> -        * XXX: zswap reclaim does not work with cgroups yet. Without a
> -        * cgroup-aware entry LRU, we will push out entries system-wide based on
> -        * local cgroup limits.
> -        */
>         objcg = get_obj_cgroup_from_folio(folio);
> -       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg))
> -               goto reject;
> +       if (objcg && !obj_cgroup_may_zswap(objcg)) {
> +               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> +               if (shrink_memcg(memcg)) {
> +                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> +                       goto reject;
> +               }
> +               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);

Can we just use RCU here as well? (same around memcg_list_lru_alloc()
call below).

> +       }
>
>         /* reclaim space if needed */
>         if (zswap_is_full()) {
> @@ -1258,7 +1394,7 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
>         }
>
>         /* allocate entry */
> -       entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
> +       entry = zswap_entry_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, page_to_nid(page));
>         if (!entry) {
>                 zswap_reject_kmemcache_fail++;
>                 goto reject;
> @@ -1285,6 +1421,15 @@ bool zswap_store(struct folio *folio)
>         if (!entry->pool)
>                 goto freepage;
>
> +       if (objcg) {
> +               memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_objcg(objcg);
> +               if (memcg_list_lru_alloc(memcg, &entry->pool->list_lru, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> +                       mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> +                       goto put_pool;
> +               }
> +               mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> +       }
> +
>         /* compress */
>         acomp_ctx = raw_cpu_ptr(entry->pool->acomp_ctx);
>