writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling

While cgroup writeback support now connects memcg and blkcg so that
writeback IOs are properly attributed and controlled, the IO back
pressure propagation mechanism implemented in balance_dirty_pages()
and its subroutines wasn't aware of cgroup writeback.

Processes belonging to a memcg may have access to only subset of total
memory available in the system and not factoring this into dirty
throttling rendered it completely ineffective for processes under
memcg limits and memcg ended up building a separate ad-hoc degenerate
mechanism directly into vmscan code to limit page dirtying.

The previous patches updated balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines
so that they can deal with multiple wb_domain's (writeback domains)
and defined per-memcg wb_domain.  Processes belonging to a non-root
memcg are bound to two wb_domains, global wb_domain and memcg
wb_domain, and should be throttled according to IO pressures from both
domains.  This patch updates dirty throttling code so that it repeats
similar calculations for the two domains - the differences between the
two are few and minor - and applies the lower of the two sets of
resulting constraints.

wb_over_bg_thresh(), which controls when background writeback
terminates, is also updated to consider both global and memcg
wb_domains.  It returns true if dirty is over bg_thresh for either
domain.

This makes the dirty throttling mechanism operational for memcg
domains including writeback-bandwidth-proportional dirty page
distribution inside them but the ad-hoc memcg throttling mechanism in
vmscan is still in place.  The next patch will rip it out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c0b0406ae5ca..f816d91c643b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4020,6 +4020,49 @@ struct wb_domain *mem_cgroup_wb_domain(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
 	return &memcg->cgwb_domain;
 }
 
+/**
+ * mem_cgroup_wb_stats - retrieve writeback related stats from its memcg
+ * @wb: bdi_writeback in question
+ * @pavail: out parameter for number of available pages
+ * @pdirty: out parameter for number of dirty pages
+ * @pwriteback: out parameter for number of pages under writeback
+ *
+ * Determine the numbers of available, dirty, and writeback pages in @wb's
+ * memcg.  Dirty and writeback are self-explanatory.  Available is a bit
+ * more involved.
+ *
+ * A memcg's headroom is "min(max, high) - used".  The available memory is
+ * calculated as the lowest headroom of itself and the ancestors plus the
+ * number of pages already being used for file pages.  Note that this
+ * doesn't consider the actual amount of available memory in the system.
+ * The caller should further cap *@pavail accordingly.
+ */
+void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pavail,
+			 unsigned long *pdirty, unsigned long *pwriteback)
+{
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css);
+	struct mem_cgroup *parent;
+	unsigned long head_room = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+	unsigned long file_pages;
+
+	*pdirty = mem_cgroup_read_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY);
+
+	/* this should eventually include NR_UNSTABLE_NFS */
+	*pwriteback = mem_cgroup_read_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_WRITEBACK);
+
+	file_pages = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, (1 << LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) |
+						    (1 << LRU_ACTIVE_FILE));
+	while ((parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) {
+		unsigned long ceiling = min(memcg->memory.limit, memcg->high);
+		unsigned long used = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
+
+		head_room = min(head_room, ceiling - min(ceiling, used));
+		memcg = parent;
+	}
+
+	*pavail = file_pages + head_room;
+}
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
 
 static int memcg_wb_domain_init(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp)