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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2017-02-23 02:41:30 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-23 03:41:27 +0300
commit01fb58bcba63f8fba37581c24c99e9a515dd0335 (patch)
tree475ebac1b656204783280c52acf315dfd3caea03 /include/linux/slab.h
parentc9fc586403e7c85eee06b2d5dea14ce71c00fcd8 (diff)
downloadlinux-01fb58bcba63f8fba37581c24c99e9a515dd0335.tar.xz
slab: remove synchronous synchronize_sched() from memcg cache deactivation path
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. slub uses synchronize_sched() to deactivate a memcg cache. synchronize_sched() is an expensive and slow operation and doesn't scale when a huge number of caches are destroyed back-to-back. While there used to be a simple batching mechanism, the batching was too restricted to be helpful. This patch implements slab_deactivate_memcg_cache_rcu_sched() which slub can use to schedule sched RCU callback instead of performing synchronize_sched() synchronously while holding cgroup_mutex. While this adds online cpus, mems and slab_mutex operations, operating on these locks back-to-back from the same kworker, which is what's gonna happen when there are many to deactivate, isn't expensive at all and this gets rid of the scalability problem completely. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117235411.9408-9-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jay Vana <jsvana@fb.com> Acked-by: 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index af1a5bef80f4..3c37a8c51921 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -582,6 +582,12 @@ struct memcg_cache_params {
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct list_head children_node;
struct list_head kmem_caches_node;
+
+ void (*deact_fn)(struct kmem_cache *);
+ union {
+ struct rcu_head deact_rcu_head;
+ struct work_struct deact_work;
+ };
};
};
};