From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: Extend slab/shrink to shrink all the memcg caches
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 19:30:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190702193038.GA9224@tower.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190702183730.14461-1-longman@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:37:30PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab/<slab>/shrink
> file to shrink the slab by flushing all the per-cpu slabs and free
> slabs in partial lists. This applies only to the root caches, though.
>
> Extends this capability by shrinking all the child memcg caches and
> the root cache when a value of '2' is written to the shrink sysfs file.
>
> On a 4-socket 112-core 224-thread x86-64 system after a parallel kernel
> build, the the amount of memory occupied by slabs before shrinking
> slabs were:
>
> # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo
> task_struct 7114 7296 7744 4 8 : tunables 0 0
> 0 : slabdata 1824 1824 0
> # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo
> Slab: 1310444 kB
> SReclaimable: 377604 kB
> SUnreclaim: 932840 kB
>
> After shrinking slabs:
>
> # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo
> Slab: 695652 kB
> SReclaimable: 322796 kB
> SUnreclaim: 372856 kB
> # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo
> task_struct 2262 2572 7744 4 8 : tunables 0 0
> 0 : slabdata 643 643 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Thanks, Waiman!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-02 18:37 [PATCH] mm, slab: Extend slab/shrink to shrink all the memcg caches Waiman Long
2019-07-02 18:39 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-02 19:09 ` David Rientjes
2019-07-02 19:15 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-02 19:30 ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2019-07-02 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2019-07-02 20:44 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-02 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2019-07-03 15:21 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-03 15:53 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-03 16:16 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-04 7:37 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-03 6:56 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-03 13:12 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-03 14:37 ` Michal Hocko
2019-07-03 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-03 16:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-07-03 16:13 ` Waiman Long
2019-07-22 12:46 ` peter enderborg
2019-07-23 14:30 ` Waiman Long
2019-08-07 16:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
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