memcg: better bounds on the memcg stats updates
Commit 11192d9c ("memcg: flush stats only if updated") added tracking of memcg stats updates which is used by the readers to flush only if the updates are over a certain threshold. However each individual update can correspond to a large value change for a given stat. For example adding or removing a hugepage to an LRU changes the stat by thp_nr_pages (512 on x86_64). Treating the update related to THP as one can keep the stat off, in theory, by (thp_nr_pages * nr_cpus * CHARGE_BATCH) before flush. To handle such scenarios, this patch adds consideration of the stat update value as well instead of just the update event. In addition let the asyn flusher unconditionally flush the stats to put time limit on the stats skew and hopefully a lot less readers would need to flush. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118065350.697046-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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