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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] The new slab memory controller
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:31:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022133148.GP9379@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018002820.307763-1-guro@fb.com>

On Thu 17-10-19 17:28:04, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> This patchset provides a new implementation of the slab memory controller,
> which aims to reach a much better slab utilization by sharing slab pages
> between multiple memory cgroups. Below is the short description of the new
> design (more details in commit messages).
> 
> Accounting is performed per-object instead of per-page. Slab-related
> vmstat counters are converted to bytes. Charging is performed on page-basis,
> with rounding up and remembering leftovers.
> 
> Memcg ownership data is stored in a per-slab-page vector: for each slab page
> a vector of corresponding size is allocated. To keep slab memory reparenting
> working, instead of saving a pointer to the memory cgroup directly an
> intermediate object is used. It's simply a pointer to a memcg (which can be
> easily changed to the parent) with a built-in reference counter. This scheme
> allows to reparent all allocated objects without walking them over and changing
> memcg pointer to the parent.
> 
> Instead of creating an individual set of kmem_caches for each memory cgroup,
> two global sets are used: the root set for non-accounted and root-cgroup
> allocations and the second set for all other allocations. This allows to
> simplify the lifetime management of individual kmem_caches: they are destroyed
> with root counterparts. It allows to remove a good amount of code and make
> things generally simpler.

What is the performance impact? Also what is the effect on the memory
reclaim side and the isolation. I would expect that mixing objects from
different cgroups would have a negative/unpredictable impact on the
memcg slab shrinking.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-22 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-18  0:28 [PATCH 00/16] The new slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 01/16] mm: memcg: introduce mem_cgroup_ptr Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 02/16] mm: vmstat: use s32 for vm_node_stat_diff in struct per_cpu_nodestat Roman Gushchin
2019-10-20 22:44   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-10-21  1:15     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-21 18:09       ` Christopher Lameter
2019-10-20 22:51   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-10-21  1:21     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 03/16] mm: vmstat: convert slab vmstat counter to bytes Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 04/16] mm: memcg/slab: allocate space for memcg ownership data for non-root slabs Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 05/16] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 06/16] mm: memcg/slab: save memcg ownership data for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 07/16] mm: memcg: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 08/16] mm: memcg: introduce __mod_lruvec_memcg_state() Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 09/16] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2019-10-25 19:41   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-10-25 20:00     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-25 20:52       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-10-31  1:52     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-31 14:23       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-10-31 14:41       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-10-31 15:07         ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-31 18:50           ` Johannes Weiner
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm: memcg: move get_mem_cgroup_from_current() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 11/16] mm: memcg/slab: replace memcg_from_slab_page() with memcg_from_slab_obj() Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: memcg/slab: use one set of kmem_caches for all memory cgroups Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 15/16] tools/cgroup: make slabinfo.py compatible with new slab controller Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18  0:28 ` [PATCH 16/16] mm: slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2019-10-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 00/16] The new slab memory controller Waiman Long
2019-10-18 17:12   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-22 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 13:28   ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 15:48     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-22 13:31 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-10-22 15:59   ` Roman Gushchin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-05 21:45 [PATCH RFC 00/14] " Roman Gushchin
2019-12-09  9:17 ` [PATCH 00/16] " Bharata B Rao
2019-12-09 11:56   ` Bharata B Rao
2019-12-09 18:04     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-12-10  6:23       ` Bharata B Rao
2019-12-10 18:05         ` Roman Gushchin
2020-01-13  8:47           ` Bharata B Rao
2020-01-13 15:31             ` Roman Gushchin

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