On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 07:14:45AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 10:11:21AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > There are two polar cases:
> > 1) a big number of relatively short-living allocations, which lifetime is well
> >    bounded (e.g. by a lifetime of a task),
> > 2) a relatively small number of long-living allocations, which lifetime
> >    is potentially indefinite (e.g. struct mount).
> > 
> > We can't use the same approach for both cases, otherwise we'll run into either
> > performance or garbage collection problems (which also lead to performance
> > problems, but delayed).
> 
> Wouldn't a front cache which expires after some seconds catch both cases?

I'm not sure. For the second case we need to pack allocations from different
tasks/cgroups into a small number of shared pages. It means the front cache
should be really small/non-existing. For the first case we likely need a
substantial cache. Maybe we can do something really smart with scattering
the cache over multiple pages, but I really doubt.