From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
brouer@redhat.com, Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:39:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200619113945.15ff3b15@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619012712.GD135965@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:27:12 -0700
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> Theoretically speaking it should get worse (especially for non-root allocations),
> but if the difference is not big, it still should be better, because there is
> a big expected win from memory savings/smaller working set/less fragmentation etc.
>
> The only thing I'm slightly worried is what's the effect on root allocations
> if we're sharing slab caches between root- and non-root allocations. Because if
> someone depends so much on the allocation speed, memcg-based accounting can be
> ignored anyway. For most users the cost of allocation is negligible.
> That's why the patch which merges root- and memcg slab caches is put on top
> and can be reverted if somebody will complain.
In general I like this work for saving memory, but you also have to be
aware of the negative consequences of sharing slab caches. At Red Hat
we have experienced very hard to find kernel bugs, that point to memory
corruption at a completely wrong kernel code, because other kernel code
were corrupting the shared slab cache. (Hint a workaround is to enable
SLUB debugging to disable this sharing).
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-08 23:06 [PATCH v6 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 01/19] mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 1:52 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-17 2:50 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 2:59 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-17 3:19 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 2:57 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-17 3:19 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 15:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 03/19] mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 3:03 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 3:08 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 05/19] mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting Roman Gushchin
2020-06-18 0:47 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-18 14:55 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-18 19:51 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 1:08 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 1:18 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-19 1:31 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 06/19] mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 15:42 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-19 21:38 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 22:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-19 22:52 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-20 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 07/19] mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 16:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-20 0:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-20 0:31 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 08/19] mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2020-06-20 0:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-20 1:19 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 09/19] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2020-06-20 0:54 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-20 1:29 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 10/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 17:12 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 18:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 18:09 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 18:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 18:38 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 11/19] mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2020-06-20 1:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 12/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 16:56 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 13/19] mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 17:29 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 17:40 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 18:03 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 14/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove memcg_kmem_get_cache() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 18:42 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 15/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 17:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 16/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 17:32 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-18 0:35 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-18 7:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-06-18 19:54 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 19:21 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 20:37 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 21:04 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 21:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 21:28 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-22 21:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-22 22:05 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 18/19] kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests Roman Gushchin
2020-06-08 23:06 ` [PATCH v6 19/19] tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 1:46 ` [PATCH v6 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Shakeel Butt
2020-06-17 2:41 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 3:05 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-17 3:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-17 11:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-06-17 14:31 ` Mel Gorman
2020-06-20 0:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-18 1:29 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-18 8:43 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-18 9:31 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-19 1:30 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 8:32 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-06-19 1:27 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-19 9:39 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2020-06-19 18:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-18 9:27 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-18 20:43 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-21 22:57 ` Qian Cai
2020-06-21 23:34 ` Roman Gushchin
[not found] ` <7DEA68BC-3B9A-46FA-8103-AE6B72324591@lca.pw>
2020-06-22 3:07 ` Roman Gushchin
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