From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>, <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcontrol: optimize per-lruvec stats counter memory usage
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 19:52:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201209031115.GA2390587@carbon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZfGtUMP6mz3DE7DHS55fyto=LZuQpcitt59WuwhZw8m2LqBg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:31:55AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:21 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:51:32PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > The vmstat threshold is 32 (MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH), so the type of s32
> > > of lruvec_stat_cpu is enough.
Actually the threshold can be as big as MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH * PAGE_SIZE.
It still fits into s32, but without explicitly saying it it's hard to
understand why not choosing s8, as in vmstat.c.
> > >
> > > The size of struct lruvec_stat is 304 bytes on 64 bits system. As it
> > > is a per-cpu structure. So with this patch, we can save 304 / 2 * ncpu
> > > bytes per-memcg per-node where ncpu is the number of the possible CPU.
> > > If there are c memory cgroup (include dying cgroup) and n NUMA node in
> > > the system. Finally, we can save (152 * ncpu * c * n) bytes.
> >
> > Honestly, I'm not convinced.
> > Say, ncpu = 32, n = 2, c = 500. We're saving <5Mb of memory.
> > If the machine has 128Gb of RAM, it's .000000003%.
>
> Hi Roman,
>
> When the cpu hotplug is enabled, the ncpu can be 256 on
> some configurations. Also, the c can be more large when
> there are many dying cgroup in the system.
>
> So the savings depends on the environment and
> configurations. Right?
Of course, but machines with more CPUs tend to have more RAM as well.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-08 9:51 [PATCH v2] mm: memcontrol: optimize per-lruvec stats counter memory usage Muchun Song
2020-12-08 18:20 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-12-09 2:21 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-12-09 2:28 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-12-09 2:31 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-12-09 3:52 ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2020-12-09 7:05 ` Muchun Song
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