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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 17/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:07 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>
> ---
[snip]
> static inline void memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> - size_t size, void **p)
> + gfp_t flags, size_t size,
> + void **p)
> {
> struct page *page;
> unsigned long off;
> size_t i;
>
> + if (!objcg)
> + return;
> +
> + flags &= ~__GFP_ACCOUNT;
> for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
> if (likely(p[i])) {
> page = virt_to_head_page(p[i]);
> +
> + if (!page_has_obj_cgroups(page) &&

The page is already linked into the kmem_cache, don't you need
synchronization for memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(). What's the reason
to remove this from charge_slab_page()?

> + memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(page, s, flags)) {
> + obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, obj_full_size(s));
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> off = obj_to_index(s, page, p[i]);
> obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> page_obj_cgroups(page)[off] = objcg;

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