From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, cl@linux.com,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
shakeelb@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0] mm/slub: Let number of online CPUs determine the slub page order
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:53:46 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2011181153390.1618743@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201118193446.GC186396@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:25:38PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 11/18/20 9:27 AM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > > The page order of the slab that gets chosen for a given slab
> > > cache depends on the number of objects that can be fit in the
> > > slab while meeting other requirements. We start with a value
> > > of minimum objects based on nr_cpu_ids that is driven by
> > > possible number of CPUs and hence could be higher than the
> > > actual number of CPUs present in the system. This leads to
> > > calculate_order() chosing a page order that is on the higher
> > > side leading to increased slab memory consumption on systems
> > > that have bigger page sizes.
> > >
> > > Hence rely on the number of online CPUs when determining the
> > > mininum objects, thereby increasing the chances of chosing
> > > a lower conservative page order for the slab.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> >
> > Ideally, we would react to hotplug events and update existing caches
> > accordingly. But for that, recalculation of order for existing caches would
> > have to be made safe, while not affecting hot paths. We have removed the
> > sysfs interface with 32a6f409b693 ("mm, slub: remove runtime allocation
> > order changes") as it didn't seem easy and worth the trouble.
> >
> > In case somebody wants to start with a large order right from the boot
> > because they know they will hotplug lots of cpus later, they can use
> > slub_min_objects= boot param to override this heuristic. So in case this
> > change regresses somebody's performance, there's a way around it and thus
> > the risk is low IMHO.
>
> I agree. For the absolute majority of users there will be no difference.
> And there is a good workaround for the rest.
>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-18 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-18 8:27 [RFC PATCH v0] mm/slub: Let number of online CPUs determine the slub page order Bharata B Rao
2020-11-18 11:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-18 19:34 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-11-18 19:53 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2021-01-20 17:36 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-21 5:30 ` Bharata B Rao
2021-01-21 9:09 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-21 10:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-21 10:48 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-21 18:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-01-22 8:03 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-22 12:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-01-22 13:16 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-23 5:16 ` Bharata B Rao
2021-01-23 12:32 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-25 11:20 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-01-26 23:03 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-27 9:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-27 11:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-03 11:10 ` Bharata B Rao
2021-02-04 7:32 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-04 9:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-02-04 9:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-08 13:41 ` [PATCH] mm, slub: better heuristic for number of cpus when calculating slab order Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-08 14:54 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-02-10 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2021-01-22 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH v0] mm/slub: Let number of online CPUs determine the slub page order Jann Horn
2021-01-22 13:09 ` Jann Horn
2021-01-22 15:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-01-25 4:28 ` Bharata B Rao
2021-01-26 8:52 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 13:38 ` Vincent Guittot
2021-01-26 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 13:45 ` Mel Gorman
2021-01-28 13:57 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 14:42 ` Mel Gorman
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