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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/10] slab: implement slab_root_caches list
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 03:54:07PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> With kmem cgroup support enabled, kmem_caches can be created and
> destroyed frequently and a great number of near empty kmem_caches can
> accumulate if there are a lot of transient cgroups and the system is
> not under memory pressure. When memory reclaim starts under such
> conditions, it can lead to consecutive deactivation and destruction of
> many kmem_caches, easily hundreds of thousands on moderately large
> systems, exposing scalability issues in the current slab management
> code. This is one of the patches to address the issue.
>
> slab_caches currently lists all caches including root and memcg ones.
> This is the only data structure which lists the root caches and
> iterating root caches can only be done by walking the list while
> skipping over memcg caches. As there can be a huge number of memcg
> caches, this can become very expensive.
>
> This also can make /proc/slabinfo behave very badly. seq_file
> processes reads in 4k chunks and seeks to the previous Nth position on
> slab_caches list to resume after each chunk. With a lot of memcg
> cache churns on the list, reading /proc/slabinfo can become very slow
> and its content often ends up with duplicate and/or missing entries.
>
> This patch adds a new list slab_root_caches which lists only the root
> caches. When memcg is not enabled, it becomes just an alias of
> slab_caches. memcg specific list operations are collected into
> memcg_[un]link_cache().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Jay Vana <jsvana@fb.com>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@tarantool.org>

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