From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:25:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod4HuMHuSP9m=HW5cDTmCfpZ5he_2n4kDctF21WNwJwEpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200623184515.4132564-3-guro@fb.com>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:47 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various subsystems,
> and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu allocator can make
> a good part of the total memory.
>
> As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory, and they are
> created by a user. Also, some cgroup internals (e.g. memory controller
> statistics) can be quite large. On a machine with many CPUs and big
> number of cgroups they can consume hundreds of megabytes.
>
> So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory
> isolation. Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be accounted
> by default.
>
> To implement the perpcu accounting it's possible to take the slab memory
> accounting as a model to follow. Let's introduce two types of percpu
> chunks: root and memcg. What makes memcg chunks different is an
> additional space allocated to store memcg membership information. If
> __GFP_ACCOUNT is passed on allocation, a memcg chunk should be be used.
> If it's possible to charge the corresponding size to the target memory
> cgroup, allocation is performed, and the memcg ownership data is recorded.
> System-wide allocations are performed using root chunks, so there is no
> additional memory overhead.
>
> To implement a fast reparenting of percpu memory on memcg removal, we
> don't store mem_cgroup pointers directly: instead we use obj_cgroup API,
> introduced for slab accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-24 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 18:45 [PATCH v3 0/5] mm: memcg accounting of percpu memory Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] percpu: return number of released bytes from pcpu_free_area() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-24 0:58 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-23 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups Roman Gushchin
2020-06-24 1:25 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2020-06-23 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: memcg/percpu: per-memcg percpu memory statistics Roman Gushchin
2020-06-24 1:35 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-08-11 15:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-06-23 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] mm: memcg: charge memcg percpu memory to the parent cgroup Roman Gushchin
2020-06-24 1:40 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-24 1:49 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-07-29 17:10 ` Michal Koutný
2020-08-07 4:16 ` Andrew Morton
2020-08-07 4:37 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-10 19:33 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-11 14:47 ` Michal Koutný
2020-08-11 16:55 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-11 18:32 ` Michal Koutný
2020-08-11 19:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-12 16:28 ` Michal Koutný
2020-08-11 15:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-11 17:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-08-13 9:16 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-08-13 23:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
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