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From: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux Kernel <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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/14] The new slab memory controller
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:39:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCjUKByipk2e1Hh1_PwC+p2Fig=6RMfd0zBeVQtyn5Y48gYXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190905214553.1643060-1-guro@fb.com>

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 6:57 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> The patchset has been tested on a number of different workloads in our
> production. In all cases, it saved hefty amounts of memory:
> 1) web frontend, 650-700 Mb, ~42% of slab memory
> 2) database cache, 750-800 Mb, ~35% of slab memory
> 3) dns server, 700 Mb, ~36% of slab memory

Do these workloads cycle through a lot of different memcgs?

For workloads that don't, wouldn't this approach potentially use more
memory? For example, a workload where everything is in one or two
memcgs, and those memcgs last forever.

-- Suleiman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-05 21:45 [PATCH RFC 00/14] The new slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 01/14] mm: memcg: subpage charging API Roman Gushchin
2019-09-16 12:56   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-09-17  2:27     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-17  8:50       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-09-17 18:33         ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 02/14] mm: memcg: introduce mem_cgroup_ptr Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 22:34   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 03/14] mm: vmstat: use s32 for vm_node_stat_diff in struct per_cpu_nodestat Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 04/14] mm: vmstat: convert slab vmstat counter to bytes Roman Gushchin
2019-09-16 12:38   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-09-17  2:08     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 05/14] mm: memcg/slab: allocate space for memcg ownership data for non-root slabs Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 06/14] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 07/14] mm: memcg/slab: save memcg ownership data for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 08/14] mm: memcg: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 21:45 ` [PATCH RFC 09/14] mm: memcg: introduce __mod_lruvec_memcg_state() Roman Gushchin
2019-09-05 22:37 ` [PATCH RFC 02/14] mm: memcg: introduce mem_cgroup_ptr Roman Gushchin
2019-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH RFC 00/14] The new slab memory controller Waiman Long
2019-09-17 21:24   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-19 13:39 ` Suleiman Souhlal [this message]
2019-09-19 16:22   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-09-19 21:10     ` Suleiman Souhlal
2019-09-19 21:40       ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-01 15:12 ` Michal Koutný
2019-10-02  2:09   ` Roman Gushchin
2019-10-02 13:00     ` Suleiman Souhlal
2019-10-03 10:47       ` Michal Koutný
2019-10-03 15:52         ` 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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