| From: |
| Usama Arif <usama.arif-AT-linux.dev> |
| To: |
| Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, david-AT-kernel.org, linux-mm-AT-kvack.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/2] mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2 |
| Date: |
| Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:41:32 -0700 |
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| <20260606114158.3126210-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> |
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The vmpressure subsystem has two distinct consumers, gated by the
@tree argument:
tree=false : in-kernel socket pressure, consumed by TCP/SCTP. This
is cgroup v2 only; v1 sockets read memcg->tcpmem_pressure
instead.
tree=true : cgroup v1 userspace eventfd notifications via the
memory.pressure_level / cgroup.event_control interface.
v2 has no equivalent (userspace gets reclaim signals
through memory.pressure / PSI, which doesn't touch
vmpressure).
So of the four (hierarchy, tree) combinations, only two carry data
that anyone reads. The existing early return in vmpressure() covered
v1 + tree=false; the symmetric v2 + tree=true case was falling through
and doing the full lock / accumulate / schedule_work / parent-walk
dance, even though the events list it eventually iterates is empty
on cgroup v2 (vmpressure_register_event() is wired up only through the
v1 cftype "memory.pressure_level" and can't be reached from a v2
memcg).
Patch 1 extends the existing early return to also skip v2 + tree=true.
On a v2-only host this eliminates a contended path where reclaimers
can serialize on a single global sr_lock. bpftrace on a 176-core production
host (cgroup v2, 285 memcgs, sustained reclaim) showed ~16,200 such calls
per minute with tree = true.
Patch 2 follows up with a cleanup: it splits the v1 userspace eventfd
interface (struct vmpressure_event, the events list and its mutex, the
work_struct and its handler, the parent walk,
vmpressure_register_event / unregister_event, and vmpressure_prio)
into a new mm/vmpressure-v1.c built only when CONFIG_MEMCG_V1=y,
behind small no-op stubs in the header. mm/vmpressure.c keeps the
shared bits and the tree=false socket-pressure path. The size of
vmpressure.c goes down to half and the code is much more simpler.
The only #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1 remaining in source is around the
v1-only fields inside struct vmpressure itself. Memory savings on
CONFIG_MEMCG_V1=n:
struct vmpressure : 112B -> 24B
struct mem_cgroup : 1664B -> 1536B
Usama Arif (2):
mm/vmpressure: skip tree=true accounting on cgroup v2
mm/vmpressure: split v1 userspace eventfd code into vmpressure-v1.c
include/linux/vmpressure.h | 46 +++++-
mm/Makefile | 2 +-
mm/vmpressure-v1.c | 305 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/vmpressure.c | 303 +++---------------------------------
4 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 292 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 mm/vmpressure-v1.c
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