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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:25:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod7B3Xw4n9jY-+m-z7-iQ+5uE_WKKOo9YHk4s+ebOyCk5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200623015846.1141975-18-guro@fb.com>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 6:58 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> Instead of having two sets of kmem_caches: one for system-wide and
> non-accounted allocations and the second one shared by all accounted
> allocations, we can use just one.
>
> The idea is simple: space for obj_cgroup metadata can be allocated on
> demand and filled only for accounted allocations.
>
> It allows to remove a bunch of code which is required to handle kmem_cache
> clones for accounted allocations.  There is no more need to create them,
> accumulate statistics, propagate attributes, etc.  It's a quite
> significant simplification.
>
> Also, because the total number of slab_caches is reduced almost twice (not
> all kmem_caches have a memcg clone), some additional memory savings are
> expected.  On my devvm it additionally saves about 3.5% of slab memory.
>
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23  1:58 [PATCH v7 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 01/19] mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 02/19] mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 03/19] mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 04/19] mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 05/19] mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 06/19] mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 07/19] mm: memcg/slab: allocate obj_cgroups for non-root slab pages Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 08/19] mm: memcg/slab: save obj_cgroup for non-root slab objects Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 09/19] mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  5:19   ` Shakeel Butt
2020-06-23 15:40     ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 10/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 11/19] mm: memcg/slab: move memcg_kmem_bypass() to memcontrol.h Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 12/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 13/19] mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 14/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove memcg_kmem_get_cache() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 15/19] mm: memcg/slab: deprecate slab_root_caches Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 16/19] mm: memcg/slab: remove redundant check in memcg_accumulate_slabinfo() Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23  5:25   ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2020-06-23  1:58 ` [PATCH v7 18/19] kselftests: cgroup: add kernel memory accounting tests Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23 13:53 ` [PATCH v7 00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller Vlastimil Babka
2020-06-23 15:39   ` Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23 17:40 Roman Gushchin
2020-06-23 17:40 ` [PATCH v7 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations Roman Gushchin
2020-07-18 17:24   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-18 23:03     ` Roman Gushchin

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