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Patch series "mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations", v5. This patchset improves the performance of accounted kernel memory allocations by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark [1]. The benchmark is very straightforward: 1M of 64 bytes-large kmalloc() allocations. Below are results with the disabled kernel memory accounting, the original state and with this patchset applied. | | Kmem disabled | Original | Patched | Delta | |-------------+---------------+----------+---------+--------| | User cgroup | 29764 | 84548 | 59078 | -30.0% | | Root cgroup | 29742 | 48342 | 31501 | -34.8% | As we can see, the patchset removes the majority of the overhead when there is no actual accounting (a task belongs to the root memory cgroup) and almost halves the accounting overhead otherwise. The main idea is to get rid of unnecessary memcg to objcg conversions and switch to a scope-based protection of objcgs, which eliminates extra operations with objcg reference counters under a rcu read lock. More details are provided in individual commit descriptions. This patch (of 5): Manually inline memcg_kmem_bypass() and active_memcg() to speed up get_obj_cgroup_from_current() by avoiding duplicate in_task() checks and active_memcg() readings. Also add a likely() macro to __get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg(): obj_cgroup_tryget() should succeed at almost all times except a very unlikely race with the memcg deletion path. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-2-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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