From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index()
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 21:35:54 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2005082130570.65713@www.lameter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504182922.GA20009@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Mon, 4 May 2020, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 11:54:09PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, but what exactly do you mean?
> >
> > I think the right approach is to add a pointer to each slab object for
> > memcg support.
> >
>
> As I understand, embedding the memcg pointer will hopefully make allocations
> cheaper in terms of CPU, but will require more memory. And you think that
> it's worth it. Is it a correct understanding?
It definitely makes the code less complex. The additional memory is
minimal. In many cases you have already some space wasted at the end of
the object that could be used for the pointer.
> Can you, please, describe a bit more detailed how it should be done
> from your point of view?
Add it to the metadata at the end of the object. Like the debugging
information or the pointer for RCU freeing.
> I mean where to store the pointer, should it be SLAB/SLUB-specific code
> or a generic code, what do to with kmallocs alignments, should we
> merge slabs which had a different size before and now have the same
> because of the memcg pointer and aligment, etc.
Both SLAB and SLUB have the same capabilities there. Slabs that had
different sizes before will now have different sizes as well. So the
merging does not change.
> I'm happy to follow your advice and perform some tests to get an idea of
> how significant the memory overhead is and how big are CPU savings.
> I guess with these numbers it will be easy to make a decision.
Sure. The main issue are the power of two kmalloc caches and how to add
the pointer to these caches in order not to waste memory. SLAB has done
this in the past by creating additional structues in a page frame.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 20:46 [PATCH v3 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 10:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:34 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 11:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 11:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 20:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-20 12:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 19:26 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-21 9:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-21 21:14 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 23:52 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-23 0:05 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-25 2:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-25 2:46 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-27 16:21 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-27 16:46 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-28 17:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-28 17:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-04-30 16:29 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-04-30 17:15 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-02 23:54 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-04 18:29 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-08 21:35 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2020-05-13 0:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-15 21:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-15 22:12 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-20 9:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 20:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-15 20:02 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-23 21:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-25 2:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2020-05-20 13:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-20 21:00 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-21 11:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-21 21:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 21:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-07 22:26 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-12 22:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-15 22:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages Roman Gushchin
2020-04-23 20:20 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-22 18:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-23 1:32 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 17:50 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 14:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 15:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 17:53 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-27 11:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 16:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 18:04 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:46 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2020-05-07 21:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2020-05-25 17:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memcg_kmem_get_cache() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 10:52 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 18:50 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 11:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 14:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-27 8:35 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests Roman Gushchin
2020-05-26 15:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-26 15:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-27 17:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-27 20:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-04-22 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool Roman Gushchin
2020-05-05 15:59 ` Tejun Heo
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